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DAS-C01 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Specialty (retired exam)

AWS Data Analytics Specialty

Data ingestion with Kinesis, DMS and MSK, ETL with Glue and EMR, analytics and visualization.

Program: Data & AI
Certification
AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty (retired)
Exam
DAS-C01
Level
Specialty (retired exam)
Modules
4

About this class

Data Analytics builds the skills to design and run analytics pipelines on AWS: ingesting data with Kinesis, DMS and MSK, transforming it with Glue and EMR, and analysing and visualising it.

Please note that AWS has retired the Data Analytics - Specialty exam. The knowledge remains valuable, and the learning pathway continues to the AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01).

Who it's for: Data engineers, analysts and architects building analytics platforms on AWS.

Prerequisites: Experience with data and analytics concepts and some AWS familiarity.

Career roles

  • Data engineer
  • Analytics engineer
  • BI developer
  • Cloud data architect

What you will learn

Curriculum

  1. Data Engineering on AWS Overview
  2. Data Ingestion Kinesis DMS MSK
  3. ETL Data Transformation Glue EMR
  4. Analytics Visualization Exam Prep

Industry trends: why this matters now

Streaming and real-time analytics

Businesses want insights in seconds rather than days.

Lakehouse architectures

Data lakes and warehouses are converging into unified platforms.

Governed data

Catalogs, lineage and access control are essential as data volumes grow.

Analytics feeding AI

Clean, well-organised data is the prerequisite for machine learning and generative AI.

Your certification pathway

  1. DAS-C01 skills (this course) This class
    Analytics pipeline fundamentals on AWS
  2. Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01)
    The current AWS data certification, aligned with this skill set
  3. Next steps
    Machine Learning or architecture certifications

The retired exam is no longer available, but the material maps closely to the current Data Engineer Associate certification. Consider taking DEA-C01 as your credential.

Class schedule

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