DA0-002 Data Acquisition and Preparation Practice Question
A social media monitoring company collects public tweets using the Twitter API. The API has a tiered access: free tier allows 500,000 tweets per month, and paid tier allows 2 million tweets per month. The company needs to collect 1.5 million tweets per month for analysis. They are on a free tier but have been exceeding the limit, causing account suspension. They need a sustainable solution without significantly increasing costs. What should they do?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Use multiple developer accounts to stay within free limits
Using multiple developer accounts to distribute the collection load can allow access to more tweets while staying within each account's free limit. This avoids the cost of upgrading to a paid tier. Reducing collection to 500,000 tweets would cause loss of critical data. Requesting an academic exemption is unlikely because the company is commercial. Upgrading to paid tier increases costs significantly.
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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Request an academic research exemption
Why it's wrong here
The company is not academic, so likely not eligible.
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Reduce the collection to exactly 500,000 tweets per month by sampling
Why it's wrong here
This would lose two-thirds of the required data, reducing analysis quality.
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Use multiple developer accounts to stay within free limits
Why this is correct
Multiple accounts can split the load, staying within free limits and avoiding costs.
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Upgrade to the paid tier
Why it's wrong here
This increases costs significantly, which the company wants to avoid.
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