Amazon BDS-C00 Exam - Topic 5 Question 129 Discussion

Actual exam question for Amazon's BDS-C00 exam

Question #: 129
Topic #: 5

Company A operates in Country X, Company A maintains a large dataset of historical purchase orders that contains personal data of their customers in the form of full names and telephone numbers. The dataset consists of 5 text files. 1TB each. Currently the dataset resides on- premises due to legal requirements of storing personal data in-country. The research and development department need to run a clustering algorithm on the dataset and wants to use Elastic Map Reduce service in the closes AWS region. Due to geographic distance the minimum latency between the on-premises system and the closet AWS region is 200 ms.

Which option allows Company A to do clustering in the AWS Cloud and meet the legal requirement of maintaining personal data in-country?

AAnonymize the personal data portions of the dataset and transfer the data files into Amazon S3 in the AWS region. Have the EMR cluster read the dataset using EMRFS.

BEstablishing a Direct Connect link between the on-premises system and the AWS region to reduce latency. Have the EMR cluster read the data directly from the on-premises storage system over Direct Connect.

CEncrypt the data files according to encryption standards of Country X and store them in AWS region in Amazon S3. Have the EMR cluster read the dataset using EMRFS.

DUse AWS Import/Export Snowball device to securely transfer the data to the AWS region and copy the files onto an EBS volume. Have the EMR cluster read the dataset using EMRFS.

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Suggested Answer: B

by Carmelina at Apr 08, 2026, 12:39 PM

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I remember discussing the importance of data residency laws, but I'm not sure if anonymizing the data would fully comply with the legal requirements.

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