AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01) — Question 225

A data engineer is troubleshooting an AWS Glue workflow that occasionally fails. The engineer determines that the failures are a result of data quality issues. A business reporting team needs to receive an email notification any time the workflow fails in the future.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

Answer options

• A. Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) FIFO topic. Subscribe the team’s email account to the SNS topic. Create an AWS Lambda function that initiates when the AWS Glue job state changes to FAILED. Set the SNS topic as the target.
• B. Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) standard topic. Subscribe the team’s email account to the SNS topic. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that triggers when the AWS Glue job state changes to FAILED. Set the SNS topic as the target.
• C. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue. Subscribe the team’s email account to the SQS queue. Create an AWS Config rule that triggers when the AWS Glue job state changes to FAILED. Set the SQS queue as the target.
• D. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue. Subscribe the team’s email account to the SQS queue. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that triggers when the AWS Glue job state changes to FAILESet the SQS queue as the target.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Option B is correct because it uses Amazon SNS with an EventBridge rule to send email notifications when the AWS Glue job fails, which is the required functionality. Option A incorrectly suggests using a FIFO topic, which is not necessary for this scenario. Options C and D involve SQS instead of SNS, which does not directly support email notifications without additional setup.