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Question 52
A company is using AWS Lake Formation to set up a secure data lake. They need to ensure that data from both Amazon S3 and on-premise databases is ingested, cataloged, and secured within the lake. What key AWS Lake Formation feature should be used to automate the ingestion and cataloging process?
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A
AWS Lake Formation Blueprints
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B
AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)
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C
AWS Lake Formation LF-Tags
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D
Amazon EMR
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Correct answer: A
A.
AWS Lake Formation Blueprints are templates for common data ingestion tasks. They help automate the process of loading data into the data lake, whether it's from Amazon S3 or on-premises databases. Blueprints also automate the data cataloging process using the AWS Glue Data Catalog.
B.
RAM is used for sharing resources across AWS accounts, but not for ingestion or cataloging.
C.
LF-Tags are used for fine-grained access control and permissions management, not for automating data ingestion.
D.
Amazon EMR is used for big data processing tasks, not for ingesting and cataloging data in Lake Formation.
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