SAP-C02 Design for New Solutions Practice Question
A company is designing a real-time analytics platform that ingests data from thousands of IoT devices. The platform must process and store high-velocity data with low latency. Which TWO AWS services should be used together to meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)
⚠ Common exam trap
Test-takers frequently confuse Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with Amazon SQS or Amazon S3 for streaming ingestion, but SQS lacks ordered, replayable streams and S3 introduces latency, while Kinesis Data Streams is purpose-built for high-velocity, low-latency data ingestion and analytics.
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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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is correct because it is designed to ingest and store high-velocity data streams from thousands of IoT devices with low latency, providing durable, ordered data that can be consumed in real time. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is correct because it can process streaming data from Kinesis Data Streams using SQL or Apache Flink to perform real-time analytics without needing to store the data first, meeting the low-latency processing requirement.
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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AWS Lambda
Why it's wrong here
Lambda can process data but is not optimized for continuous real-time analytics; it's better for event-driven processing.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Why this is correct
Ingests large amounts of data from IoT devices in real time.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
Why this is correct
Performs real-time analytics on streaming data using SQL or Flink.
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Amazon S3
Why it's wrong here
S3 is for storage, not for real-time stream processing.
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Amazon SQS
Why it's wrong here
SQS is a message queue, not designed for real-time analytics.
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