A data engineer needs to create an Amazon Athena table based on a subset of...

To create a new table named cities_usa in Amazon Athena based on a subset of data from the existing cities_world table, you should use an INSERT INTO statement combined with a SELECT statement to filter only the records where the country is 'usa'. The correct SQL syntax would be:

Option A: INSERT INTO cities_usa (city, state) SELECT city, state FROM cities_world WHERE country='usa';This statement inserts only the cities and states where the country column has a value of 'usa' from the cities_world table into the cities_usa table. This is a correct approach to create a new table with data filtered from an existing table in Athena.

Options B, C, and D are incorrect due to syntax errors or incorrect SQL usage (e.g., the MOVE command or the use of UPDATE in a non-relevant context).