AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional — Question 528

Identify an application that polls AWS Data Pipeline for tasks and then performs those tasks.

Answer options

• A. A task executor
• B. A task deployer
• C. A task runner
• D. A task optimizer

Correct answer: C

Explanation

A Task Runner is a highly customizable application that constantly polls AWS Data Pipeline for work, executes the assigned tasks, and reports the status back to the service. While AWS offers a pre-packaged Task Runner, users can also develop their own custom task runner applications. Other terms like task executor, deployer, or optimizer are not valid AWS Data Pipeline components.