AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional — Question 360

How does AWS Data Pipeline execute activities on on-premise resources or AWS resources that you manage?

Answer options

• A. By supplying a Task Runner package that can be installed on your on-premise hosts
• B. None of these
• C. By supplying a Task Runner file that the resources can access for execution
• D. By supplying a Task Runner json script that can be installed on your on-premise hosts

Correct answer: A

Explanation

AWS Data Pipeline coordinates tasks on your own infrastructure by utilizing Task Runner, which is a downloadable application package that you install and run on your on-premise hosts or self-managed EC2 instances. This package continuously polls the AWS Data Pipeline service for scheduled tasks and executes them locally. Static files or JSON scripts alone are insufficient to perform this continuous polling and execution workflow.