This is our final week. Today we bring together the two domains that carry the greatest weight on the exam — Domain 1 (Data Ingestion and Transformation, ~34%) and Domain 2 (Storage Management, ~26%) — as a single data flow. Together they represent nearly 60% of the exam. The key to passing is not memorizing individual services, but understanding the pipeline as a whole: "data arrives, gets ingested, is transformed, and is stored."
Ingestion splits into two broad categories: streaming and batch