Amazon BDS-C00 Exam
AWS Certified Big Data -Speciality (Page 7 )

Updated On: 9-Feb-2026

In AWS Snowball, an “InvalidClientTokenId” error is returned when the _ or AWS access key ID provided does not exist in the AWS records.

  1. X.509 certificate
  2. RSA token
  3. Kerberos ticket
  4. PKI private key

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

In AWS Snowball, a InvalidClientTokenId error is returned when the X.509 certificate or AWS access key ID provided does not exist in the AWS records. This error returns a HTTP Status Code 403.


Reference:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/api-reference/CommonErrors.html



What is one function of Snowball?

  1. To migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS
  2. To migrate databases into and out of AWS
  3. To transfer exabyte-scale data into and out of the AWS cloud
  4. To transfer petabyte-scale data into and out of the AWS cloud

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that can be used to securely transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud.


Reference:

https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/



In AWS Kinesis a Kinesis partition key is used to? (choose one)

  1. Strip the blob data from the record and store it in the appropriate data store
  2. Segregate and route records to different shards of a stream
  3. provide a secondary index for the kinesis stream ID
  4. Sequence the records for when they are returned from the ingestion engine

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

A Kinesis partition key is used to segregate and route records to different shards of a stream Reference: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/working-with-kinesis.html



What does it mean if an AWS Snowball action returns a “ServiceUnavailable” error?

  1. The request has failed due to a temporary failure of the server.
  2. The action or operation requested is invalid.
  3. The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.
  4. The request signature does not conform to AWS standards.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

An Incomplete Signature error is returned when the request signature does not conform to AWS standards. An Internal Failure error is returned when the request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure. An Invalid Action error is returned when the action or operation requested is invalid. A Service Unavailable error is returned when the request has failed due to a temporary failure of the server.


Reference:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/api-reference/CommonErrors.html



In AWS Snowball, what happens if you try to transfer an object with a trailing slash in its name?

  1. If the name update causes a conflict (e.g., if an object with the target new name already exists), then the job fails.
  2. It is not transferred during the import/export process.
  3. Its name is auto-updated before transfer: any trailing slash is replaced by a dash.
  4. It is treated as a directory and the job fails if it turns out to be a regular file.

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

In AWS Snowball, objects with trailing slashes in their names (/ or \) are not transferred. Before exporting any objects with trailing slashes, you should update their names and remove the slash.


Reference:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/create-export-job.html






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