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AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty Exam


The AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty certification, which is currently being retired, was designed to validate the knowledge and skills of individuals in designing, building, securing, and maintaining analytics solutions on the AWS platform.

Important Note: As of March 1, 2024, the AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty exam is no longer available. It has been replaced by the AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate exam. This new exam focuses more on the data engineering aspects like ingestion, transformation, storage, and management of data.


Who should have taken this Exam?

This certification was targeted towards individuals with experience and expertise in:

  • Data analytics technologies (five years of experience)
  • Designing, building, securing, and maintaining data analytics solutions on AWS (two years of experience)
  • Understanding and integrating various AWS services for data analytics purposes


Course Outline

The AWS Data Analytics Specialty Exam covers the following topics as per the latest updates - 

  • Module 1: Understanding Overview of Collection (18%)
  • Module 2: Understanding Understanding Storage and Data Management (22%)
  • Module 3: Understanding Overview of Processing (24%)
  • Module 5: Understanding Analysis and Visualization (18%)
  • Module 5: Understanding Security (18%)

AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty Exam FAQs

In March 2021, a new version of the AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty (BDS-C00) exam was launched which is AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty (DAS-C01) Exam. AWS DAS-C01 exam will help in achieving candidates with an industry-recognized credential from AWS with validating skills in AWS data lakes and analytics services. 


AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty Exam Update


AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty Exam Update

For documentation, you can refer to the AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty exam online tutorial. The tutorial contains the documentation according to the course outline.


AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty (DAS-C01) Online Tutorial

  • A minimum of 5 years of experience with common data analytics technologies
  • At least 2 years of hands-on experience working on AWS
  • Experience and expertise working with AWS services to design, build, secure, and maintain analytics solutions


The AWS Data Analytics Specialty Exam covers the following topics - 

  • Module 1: Understanding Collection (18%)
  • Module 2: Understanding Storage and Data Management (22%)
  • Module 3: Overview of Processing (24%)
  • Module 5: Analysis and Visualization (18%)
  • Module 5: Security (18%)

The AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty exam has been developed for individuals who are required to perform in a data analytics-focused role. The AWS Data Analytics exam evaluates a candidate's comprehensive understanding of

  • Using AWS services to design, build, secure, and maintain analytics solutions that provide insight from data. 

The AWS Data Analytics Specialty Exam validates an examinee’s ability to -

  • Understand AWS data analytics services and understand how they integrate with each other.
  • Learn how AWS data analytics services fit in the data lifecycle of collection, storage, processing, and visualization.