AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 447

What does Amazon EMR stand for?

Answer options

• A. Elastic Magnetic Resonance
• B. Encrypted Machine Reads
• C. Elastic MapReduce
• D. Encrypted Machine Rendering

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon EMR stands for Elastic MapReduce, which is a managed cluster platform that simplifies running big data frameworks, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, on AWS to process and analyze vast amounts of data. The other options are fictional terms and do not represent the correct expansion of the AWS service acronym.