SAP-C02 Design for New Solutions Practice Question
A company is designing a new data processing pipeline that must transform data from JSON to Parquet format. The pipeline should run daily and handle data up to 10 GB. Which TWO AWS services can be used to perform this transformation?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many exam-takers choose Lambda for small-to-medium batch jobs without considering the 15-minute timeout and 10 GB memory limit, which makes it impractical for transforming 10 GB of data in a single run.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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AWS Glue
AWS Glue is correct because it provides a fully managed ETL service that can natively read JSON and write Parquet, with built-in transforms and schema inference. Glue jobs run on Apache Spark under the hood, making them suitable for daily batch processing of up to 10 GB without managing any infrastructure.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Amazon EMR
Why it's wrong here
Possible but overkill for 10 GB daily.
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AWS Lambda
Why it's wrong here
Limited to 15-minute timeout, 10 GB memory.
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AWS Glue
Why this is correct
Serverless ETL service.
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Amazon Athena (CTAS queries)
Why this is correct
Can convert data using CREATE TABLE AS SELECT.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Why it's wrong here
For streaming data, not daily batch.
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