AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty
Learn more about this certification and AWS resources that can help you prepare
This certification will be retiring on April 9, 2024. The last day to take this exam is April 8, 2024.
This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty validates expertise in using AWS data lakes and analytics services to get insights from data.
Who should take this exam?
AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty is intended for individuals with experience and expertise working with AWS services to design, build, secure, and maintain analytics solutions. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
- Five years of experience with common data analytics technologies
- Two years of hands-on experience and expertise working with AWS services to design, build, secure, and maintain analytics solutions
- Ability to define AWS data analytics services and understand how they integrate with each other
- Ability to explain how AWS data analytics services fit in the data lifecycle of collection, storage, processing, and visualization
What does it take to earn this certification?
To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty exam (DAS-C01). The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.
Review sample questions that demonstrate the format of the questions used on this exam and include rationales for the correct answers.
Exam overview
Level: Specialty
Length: 180 minutes to complete the exam
Cost: 300 USD
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Format: 65 questions, either multiple choice or multiple response.
Delivery method: Pearson VUE testing center or online proctored exam.
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Prepare for your exam
You’ve set your goal. Now it’s time to build knowledge and skills to propel your career. Check out these resources from AWS Training and Certification that are relevant to AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty. AWS does not require you to take any specific AWS training as part of your exam prep.
Additional resources - including AWS Builder Labs and game-based learning to complement your prep - are available with a subscription on AWS Skill Builder.
Note: This certification is retiring on April 9, 2024. The exam prep resources in the Exam review tab below are available until April 8, 2024, and will also retire on April 9, 2024.
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FAQs on AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty retirement
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Why is AWS Certification retiring the AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty certification?
AWS Certification is investing in building new role-based certifications, like the new AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate, that is focused on the data engineer job role. AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty encompasses multiple data job functions.
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What are the differences between the retiring AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty and the new AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate?
The retiring AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty covers a broader set of domains and more complex topics across multiple data roles and includes data analysis and visualization, which are aligned with the data analyst job role. The new AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate is aligned to the data engineer job role and is focused on the ingestion, transformation, storage, and management of data.
AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate does not go into as much depth and complexity as AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty, includes application of programming concepts (not within scope of AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty), and has a heavier focus on data operations/support and implementation of security requirements than AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty does.
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If I currently hold the AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty, is there any action I need to take because this certification is retiring?
No, there is no action needed on your part. Your certification will remain active for 3 years from the date it was earned. You will be able to continue displaying and sharing your certification digital badge through Credly within that 3-year period.
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If I need to recertify the AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty, what are my options?
You can still recertify the AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty by retaking the exam on or before April 8, 2024. Once recertified, your certification will remain active for 3 years from the date it was earned.
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Can I still use vouchers purchased for professional and specialty certifications to take the AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty exam?
If you have purchased professional and specialty vouchers, you can use your voucher for this exam before April 8, 2024, the last day of delivery for this exam.
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Can I use vouchers purchased for professional and specialty certifications to take the AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate exam?
No, exam vouchers are applicable only for the exam categories they were issued for.