DBS-C01 AWS Certified Database - Specialty Question and Answers

A Database Specialist is planning to create a read replica of an existing Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. When using the AWS Management Console to conduct this task, the Database Specialist discovers that the source RDS DB instance does not appear in the read replica source selection box, so the read replica cannot be created.

What is the most likely reason for this?

A company is running a finance application on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The application is governed by multiple financial regulatory agencies. The RDS DB instance is set up with security groups to allow access to certain Amazon EC2 servers only. AWS KMS is used for encryption at rest.

Which step will provide additional security?

Developers have requested a new Amazon Redshift cluster so they can load new third-party marketing data. The new cluster is ready and the user credentials are given to the developers. The developers indicate that their copy jobs fail with the following error message:

“Amazon Invalid operation: S3ServiceException:Access Denied,Status 403,Error AccessDenied.”

The developers need to load this data soon, so a database specialist must act quickly to solve this issue.

What is the MOST secure solution?

A startup company is building a new application to allow users to visualize their on-premises and cloud networking components. The company expects billions of components to be stored and requires responses in milliseconds. The application should be able to identify:

• The networks and routes affected if a particular component fails.
• The networks that have redundant routes between them.
• The networks that do not have redundant routes between them.
• The fastest path between two networks.

Which database engine meets these requirements?

A company is launching a new Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance to be used as a data store for a custom-built application. After a series of tests with point-in-time recovery disabled, the company decides that it must have point-in-time recovery reenabled before using the DB instance to store production data.

What should a database specialist do so that point-in-time recovery can be successful?

A company developed a new application that is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The EC2 instances use the security group named sg-application-servers. The company needs a database to store the data from the application and decides to use an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The DB instance is deployed in private DB subnet.

What is the MOST restrictive configuration for the DB instance security group?

A startup company in the travel industry wants to create an application that includes a personal travel assistant to display information for nearby airports based on user location. The application will use Amazon DynamoDB and must be able to access and display attributes such as airline names, arrival times, and flight numbers. However, the application must not be able to access or display pilot names or passenger counts.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A company is running its customer feedback application on Amazon Aurora MySQL. The company runs a report every day to extract customer feedback, and a team reads the feedback to determine if the customer comments are positive or negative. It sometimes takes days before the company can contact unhappy customers and take corrective measures. The company wants to use machine learning to automate this workflow.

Which solution meets this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?

A company has an existing system that uses a single-instance Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) cluster. Read requests account for 75% of the system queries. Write requests are expected to increase by 50% after an upcoming global release. A database specialist needs to design a solution that improves the overall database performance without creating additional application overhead.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A business's production database is hosted on a single-node Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The database instance is hosted in a United States AWS Region.

A week before a significant sales event, a fresh database maintenance update is released. The maintenance update has been designated as necessary. The firm want to minimize the database instance's downtime and requests that a database expert make the database instance highly accessible until the sales event concludes.

Which solution will satisfy these criteria?

Recently, a financial institution created a portfolio management service. The application's backend is powered by Amazon Aurora, which supports MySQL.

The firm demands a response time of five minutes and a response time of five minutes. A database professional must create a disaster recovery system that is both efficient and has a low replication latency.

How should the database professional tackle these requirements?

A Database Specialist is designing a new database infrastructure for a ride hailing application. The application data includes a ride tracking system that stores GPS coordinates for all rides. Real-time statistics and metadata lookups must be performed with high throughput and microsecond latency. The database should be fault tolerant with minimal operational overhead and development effort.

Which solution meets these requirements in the MOST efficient way?

A company is using an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster for the backend of its mobile application. The application is running continuously and a database specialist is satisfied with high availability and fast failover, but is concerned about performance degradation after failover.

How can the database specialist minimize the performance degradation after failover?

A company needs to deploy an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB instance into multiple accounts. The company will initiate each DB instance from an existing Aurora PostgreSQL DB instance that runs in a

shared account. The company wants the process to be repeatable in case the company adds additional accounts in the future. The company also wants to be able to verify if manual changes have been made

to the DB instance configurations after the company deploys the DB instances.

A database specialist has determined that the company needs to create an AWS CloudFormation template with the necessary configuration to create a DB instance in an account by using a snapshot of the existing DB instance to initialize the DB instance. The company will also use the CloudFormation template's parameters to provide key values for the DB instance creation (account ID, etc.).

Which final step will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?

A company is running an Amazon RDS for PostgeSQL DB instance and wants to migrate it to an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster. The current database is 1 TB in size. The migration needs to have minimal downtime.

What is the FASTEST way to accomplish this?

A Database Specialist has migrated an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The schema and the data have been migrated successfully. The on-premises database server was also being used to run database maintenance cron jobs written in Python to perform tasks including data purging and generating data exports. The logs for these jobs show that, most of the time, the jobs completed within 5 minutes, but a few jobs took up to 10 minutes to complete. These maintenance jobs need to be set up for Aurora PostgreSQL.

How can the Database Specialist schedule these jobs so the setup requires minimal maintenance and provides high availability?

A company has a database monitoring solution that uses Amazon CloudWatch for its Amazon RDS for SQL Server environment. The cause of a recent spike in CPU utilization was not determined using the standard metrics that were collected. The CPU spike caused the application to perform poorly, impacting users. A Database Specialist needs to determine what caused the CPU spike.

Which combination of steps should be taken to provide more visibility into the processes and queries running during an increase in CPU load? (Choose two.)

A financial services company has an application deployed on AWS that uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster. A recent audit showed that no log files contained database administrator activity. A database specialist needs to recommend a solution to provide database access and activity logs. The solution should use the least amount of effort and have a minimal impact on performance.

Which solution should the database specialist recommend?

A database specialist at a large multi-national financial company is in charge of designing the disaster recovery strategy for a highly available application that is in development. The application uses an Amazon DynamoDB table as its data store. The application requires a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 minute and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 2 minutes.

Which operationally efficient disaster recovery strategy should the database specialist recommend for the DynamoDB table?

A database professional is tasked with the task of migrating 25 GB of data files from an on-premises storage system to an Amazon Neptune database.

Which method of data loading is the FASTEST?

A database professional maintains a fleet of Amazon RDS database instances that are configured to utilize the default database parameter group. A database expert must connect a custom parameter group with certain database instances.

When will the instances be allocated to this new parameter group once the database specialist performs this change?

Recently, a gaming firm purchased a popular iOS game that is especially popular during the Christmas season. The business has opted to include a leaderboard into the game, which will be powered by Amazon DynamoDB. The application's load is likely to increase significantly throughout the Christmas season.

Which solution satisfies these criteria at the lowest possible cost?

A company hosts a 2 TB Oracle database in its on-premises data center. A database specialist is migrating the database from on premises to an Amazon Aurora

PostgreSQL database on AWS.

The database specialist identifies a problem that relates to compatibility Oracle stores metadata in its data dictionary in uppercase, but PostgreSQL stores the metadata in lowercase. The database specialist must resolve this problem to complete the migration.

What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

A company has multiple applications serving data from a secure on-premises database. The company is migrating all applications and databases to the AWS Cloud. The IT Risk and Compliance department requires that auditing be enabled on all secure databases to capture all log ins, log outs, failed logins, permission changes, and database schema changes. A Database Specialist has recommended Amazon Aurora MySQL as the migration target, and leveraging the Advanced Auditing feature in Aurora.

Which events need to be specified in the Advanced Auditing configuration to satisfy the minimum auditing requirements? (Choose three.)

A company is running a two-tier ecommerce application in one AWS account. The web server is deployed using an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. A Developer mistakenly deleted the database in the production environment. The database has been restored, but this resulted in hours of downtime and lost revenue.

Which combination of changes in existing IAM policies should a Database Specialist make to prevent an error like this from happening in the future? (Choose three.)

An online shopping company has a large inflow of shopping requests daily. As a result, there is a consistent load on the company’s Amazon RDS database. A database specialist needs to ensure the database is up and running at all times. The database specialist wants an automatic notification system for issues that may cause database downtime or for configuration changes made to the database.

What should the database specialist do to achieve this? (Choose two.)

A Database Specialist is designing a disaster recovery strategy for a production Amazon DynamoDB table. The table uses provisioned read/write capacity mode, global secondary indexes, and time to live (TTL). The Database Specialist has restored the latest backup to a new table.

To prepare the new table with identical settings, which steps should be performed? (Choose two.)

A retail company with its main office in New York and another office in Tokyo plans to build a database solution on AWS. The company’s main workload consists of a mission-critical application that updates its application data in a data store. The team at the Tokyo office is building dashboards with complex analytical queries using the application data. The dashboards will be used to make buying decisions, so they need to have access to the application data in less than 1 second.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A financial services organization employs an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster to host an application on AWS. No log files detailing database administrator activity were discovered during a recent examination. A database professional must suggest a solution that enables access to the database and maintains activity logs. The solution should be simple to implement and have a negligible effect on performance.

Which database specialist solution should be recommended?

A company uses Amazon Aurora for secure financial transactions. The data must always be encrypted at rest and in transit to meet compliance requirements.

Which combination of actions should a database specialist take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A bike rental company operates an application to track its bikes. The application receives location and condition data from bike sensors. The application also receives rental transaction data from the associated mobile app.

The application uses Amazon DynamoDB as its database layer. The company has configured DynamoDB with provisioned capacity set to 20% above the expected peak load of the application. On an average day, DynamoDB used 22 billion read capacity units (RCUs) and 60 billion write capacity units (WCUs). The application is running well. Usage changes smoothly over the course of the day and is generally shaped like a bell curve. The timing and magnitude of peaks vary based on the weather and season, but the general shape is consistent.

Which solution will provide the MOST cost optimization of the DynamoDB database layer?

A company plans to migrate a MySQL-based application from an on-premises environment to AWS. The application performs database joins across several tables and uses indexes for faster query response times. The company needs the database to be highly available with automatic failover.

Which solution on AWS will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A global digital advertising company captures browsing metadata to contextually display relevant images, pages, and links to targeted users. A single page load can generate multiple events that need to be stored individually. The maximum size of an event is 200 KB and the average size is 10 KB. Each page load must query the user’s browsing history to provide targeting recommendations. The advertising company expects over 1 billion page visits per day from users in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, and India. The structure of the metadata varies depending on the event. Additionally, the browsing metadata must be written and read with very low latency to ensure a good viewing experience for the users.

Which database solution meets these requirements?

A company has more than 100 AWS accounts that need Amazon RDS instances. The company wants to build an automated solution to deploy the RDS instances with specific compliance parameters. The data does not need to be replicated. The company needs to create the databases within 1 day

Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?

A company runs online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ DB instance. The company recently conducted tests on the database after business hours, and

the tests generated additional database logs. As a result, free storage of the DB instance is low and is expected to be exhausted in 2 days.

The company wants to recover the free storage that the additional logs consumed. The solution must not result in downtime for the database.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company is looking to move an on-premises IBM Db2 database running AIX on an IBM POWER7 server. Due to escalating support and maintenance costs, the company is exploring the option of moving the workload to an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster.

What is the quickest way for the company to gather data on the migration compatibility?

A gaming company has recently acquired a successful iOS game, which is particularly popular during the holiday season. The company has decided to add a leaderboard to the game that uses Amazon DynamoDB. The application load is expected to ramp up over the holiday season.

Which solution will meet these requirements at the lowest cost?

A company wants to improve its ecommerce website on AWS. A database specialist decides to add Amazon ElastiCache for Redis in the implementation stack to ease the workload off the database and shorten the website response times. The database specialist must also ensure the ecommerce website is highly available within the company's AWS Region.

How should the database specialist deploy ElastiCache to meet this requirement?

A business is transferring a database from one AWS Region to another using an Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance. The organization wishes to keep database downtime to a minimum throughout the transfer.

Which migration strategy should the organization use for this cross-regional move?

A gaming company is designing a mobile gaming app that will be accessed by many users across the globe. The company wants to have replication and full support for multi-master writes. The company also wants to ensure low latency and consistent performance for app users.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A business just transitioned from an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. Following the move, the organization observed that every day around 3:00 PM, the application's response time is substantially slower. The firm has determined that the problem is with the database, not the application.

Which set of procedures should the Database Specialist do to locate the erroneous PostgreSQL query most efficiently?

A Database Specialist modified an existing parameter group currently associated with a production Amazon RDS for SQL Server Multi-AZ DB instance. The change is associated with a static parameter type, which controls the number of user connections allowed on the most critical RDS SQL Server DB instance for the company. This change has been approved for a specific maintenance window to help minimize the impact on users.

How should the Database Specialist apply the parameter group change for the DB instance?

A company has migrated a single MySQL database to Amazon Aurora. The production data is hosted in a DB cluster in VPC_PROD, and 12 testing environments are hosted in VPC_TEST using the same AWS account. Testing results in minimal changes to the test data. The Development team wants each environment refreshed nightly so each test database contains fresh production data every day.

Which migration approach will be the fastest and most cost-effective to implement?

An online retail company is planning a multi-day flash sale that must support processing of up to 5,000 orders per second. The number of orders and exact schedule for the sale will vary each day. During the sale, approximately 10,000 concurrent users will look at the deals before buying items. Outside of the sale, the traffic volume is very low. The acceptable performance for read/write queries should be under 25 ms. Order items are about 2 KB in size and have a unique identifier. The company requires the most cost-effective solution that will automatically scale and is highly available.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A huge gaming firm is developing a centralized method for storing the status of various online games' user sessions. The workload requires low-latency key-value storage and will consist of an equal number of reads and writes. Across the games' geographically dispersed user base, data should be written to the AWS Region nearest to the user. The design should reduce the burden associated with managing data replication across Regions.

Which solution satisfies these criteria?

An online gaming company is planning to launch a new game with Amazon DynamoDB as its data store. The database should be designated to support the following use cases:

Update scores in real time whenever a player is playing the game. Retrieve a player’s score details for a specific game session.

A Database Specialist decides to implement a DynamoDB table. Each player has a unique user_id and each

game has a unique game_id.

Which choice of keys is recommended for the DynamoDB table?

A company recently acquired a new business. A database specialist must migrate an unencrypted 12 TB Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance to a new AWS account. The database specialist needs to minimize the amount of time required to migrate the database.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A company has an ecommerce website that runs on AWS. The website uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. A database specialist wants to enforce the use of temporary credentials to access the database.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

A worldwide digital advertising corporation collects browser information in order to provide targeted visitors with contextually relevant pictures, websites, and connections. A single page load may create many events, each of which must be kept separately. A single event may have a maximum size of 200 KB and an average size of 10 KB. Each page load requires a query of the user's browsing history in order to deliver suggestions for targeted advertising. The advertising corporation anticipates daily page views of more than 1 billion from people in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, and India. The information structure differs according to the event. Additionally, browsing information must be written and read with a very low latency to guarantee that consumers have a positive viewing experience.

Which database solution satisfies these criteria?

A business's mission-critical production workload is being operated on a 500 GB Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. A database engineer must migrate the workload without causing data loss to a new Amazon Aurora Serverless MySQL DB cluster.

Which approach will result in the LEAST amount of downtime and the LEAST amount of application impact?

A company is load testing its three-tier production web application deployed with an AWS CloudFormation template on AWS. The Application team is making changes to deploy additional Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda resources to expand the load testing capacity. A Database Specialist wants to ensure that the changes made by the Application team will not change the Amazon RDS database resources already deployed.

Which combination of steps would allow the Database Specialist to accomplish this? (Choose two.)

A company has a web-based survey application that uses Amazon DynamoDB. During peak usage, when

survey responses are being collected, a Database Specialist sees the ProvisionedThroughputExceededException error.

What can the Database Specialist do to resolve this error? (Choose two.)

A company wants to migrate its existing on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The migration must be completed with minimal downtime using AWS DMS. A Database Specialist must validate that the data was migrated accurately from the source to the target before the cutover. The migration must have minimal impact on the performance of the source database.

Which approach will MOST effectively meet these requirements?

A global company is creating an application. The application must be highly available. The company requires an RTO and an RPO of less than 5 minutes. The company needs a database that will provide the ability to set up an active-active configuration and near real-time synchronization of data across tables in multiple AWS Regions.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company has a on-premises Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) database. The company wants to migrate the database to AWS and reduce licensing costs. The company's application team wants to store JSON payloads that expire after 28 hours. The company has development capacity if code changes are required.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A large financial services company requires that all data be encrypted in transit. A Developer is attempting to connect to an Amazon RDS DB instance using the company VPC for the first time with credentials provided by a Database Specialist. Other members of the Development team can connect, but this user is consistently receiving an error indicating a communications link failure. The Developer asked the Database Specialist to reset the password a number of times, but the error persists.

Which step should be taken to troubleshoot this issue?

A company wants to build a new invoicing service for its cloud-native application on AWS. The company has a small development team and wants to focus on service feature development and minimize operations and maintenance as much as possible. The company expects the service to handle billions of requests and millions of new records every day. The service feature requirements, including data access patterns are well-defined. The service has an availability target of

99.99% with a milliseconds latency requirement. The database for the service will be the system of record for invoicing data.

Which database solution meets these requirements at the LOWEST cost?

In one AWS account, a business runs a two-tier ecommerce application. An Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ database instance serves as the application's backend. A developer removed the database instance in the production environment by accident. Although the organization recovers the database, the incident results in hours of outage and financial loss.

Which combination of adjustments would reduce the likelihood that this error will occur again in the future? (Select three.)

A company migrated one of its business-critical database workloads to an Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ DB cluster. The company requires a very low RTO and needs to improve the application recovery time after database failovers.

Which approach meets these requirements?

A marketing company is using Amazon DocumentDB and requires that database audit logs be enabled. A Database Specialist needs to configure monitoring so that all data definition language (DDL) statements performed are visible to the Administrator. The Database Specialist has set the audit_logs parameter to enabled in the cluster parameter group.

What should the Database Specialist do to automatically collect the database logs for the Administrator?

A Database Specialist is troubleshooting an application connection failure on an Amazon Aurora DB cluster with multiple Aurora Replicas that had been running with no issues for the past 2 months. The connection failure lasted for 5 minutes and corrected itself after that. The Database Specialist reviewed the Amazon RDS events and determined a failover event occurred at that time. The failover process took around 15 seconds to

complete.

What is the MOST likely cause of the 5-minute connection outage?

A company runs a customer relationship management (CRM) system that is hosted on-premises with a MySQL database as the backend. A custom stored procedure is used to send email notifications to another system when data is inserted into a table. The company has noticed that the performance of the CRM system has decreased due to database reporting applications used by various teams. The company requires an AWS solution that would reduce maintenance, improve performance, and accommodate the email notification feature.

Which AWS solution meets these requirements?

A database specialist wants to ensure that an Amazon Aurora DB cluster is always automatically upgraded to the most recent minor version available. Noticing that there is a new minor version available, the database specialist has issues an AWS CLI command to enable automatic minor version updates. The command runs successfully, but checking the Aurora DB cluster indicates that no update to the Aurora version has been made.

What might account for this? (Choose two.)

A company has a hybrid environment in which a VPC connects to an on-premises network through an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. The VPC contains an application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances run in private subnets behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is associated with multiple public subnets. The EC2 instances need to securely access an Amazon DynamoDB table.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company has an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instances that is 200 GB in size with an RPO of 6 hours. To meet the company’s disaster recovery policies, the database backup needs to be copied into another Region. The company requires the solution to be cost-effective and operationally efficient.

What should a Database Specialist do to copy the database backup into a different Region?

A company is running its line of business application on AWS, which uses Amazon RDS for MySQL at the persistent data store. The company wants to minimize downtime when it migrates the database to Amazon Aurora.

Which migration method should a Database Specialist use?

A company requires near-real-time notifications when changes are made to Amazon RDS DB security groups.

Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?

A pharmaceutical company uses Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) to store its clinical trial data records. The company has an application that runs as AWS Lambda functions. The application is hosted in the private subnet in a VPC.

The application does not have internet access and needs to read some of the clinical data records. The company is concerned that traffic between the QLDB ledger and the VPC could leave the AWS network. The company needs to secure access to the QLDB ledger and allow the VPC traffic to have read-only access.

Which security strategy should a database specialist implement to meet these requirements?

A gaming company uses Amazon Aurora Serverless for one of its internal applications. The company's developers use Amazon RDS Data API to work with the

Aurora Serverless DB cluster. After a recent security review, the company is mandating security enhancements. A database specialist must ensure that access to

RDS Data API is private and never passes through the public internet.

What should the database specialist do to meet this requirement?

A gaming company wants to deploy a game in multiple Regions. The company plans to save local high scores in Amazon DynamoDB tables in each Region. A Database Specialist needs to design a solution to automate the deployment of the database with identical configurations in additional Regions, as needed. The solution should also automate configuration changes across all Regions.

Which solution would meet these requirements and deploy the DynamoDB tables?

A database specialist is managing an application in the us-west-1 Region and wants to set up disaster recovery in the us-east-1 Region. The Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster needs an RPO of 1 minute and an RTO of 2 minutes.

Which approach meets these requirements with no negative performance impact?

An ecommerce company is running Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server. The company is planning to perform testing in a development environment with production data. The development environment and the production environment are in separate AWS accounts. Both environments use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) encrypted databases with both manual and automated snapshots. A database specialist needs to share a KMS encrypted production RDS snapshot with the development account.

Which combination of steps should the database specialist take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)

A company is using Amazon RDS for MySQL to redesign its business application. A Database Specialist has noticed that the Development team is restoring their MySQL database multiple times a day when Developers make mistakes in their schema updates. The Developers sometimes need to wait hours to the restores to complete.

Multiple team members are working on the project, making it difficult to find the correct restore point for each mistake.

Which approach should the Database Specialist take to reduce downtime?

A business that specializes in internet advertising is developing an application that will show adverts to its customers. The program stores data in an Amazon DynamoDB database. Additionally, the application caches its reads using a DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) cluster. The majority of reads come via the GetItem and BatchGetItem queries. The application does not need consistency of readings.

The application cache does not behave as intended after deployment. Specific extremely consistent queries to the DAX cluster are responding in several milliseconds rather than microseconds.

How can the business optimize cache behavior in order to boost application performance?

An application reads and writes data to an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. A new reporting dashboard needs read-only access to the database. When the application and reports are both under heavy load, the database experiences performance degradation. A database specialist needs to improve the database performance.

What should the database specialist do to meet these requirements?

A company hosts an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise edition database with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) enabled. The database is 20 TB in size and includes sparse tables. The company needs to migrate the database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server during a maintenance window that is scheduled for an upcoming weekend. Data-at-rest encryption must be enabled for the target DB instance.

Which combination of steps should the company take to migrate the database to AWS in the MOST operationally efficient manner? (Choose two.)

A company uses Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS in a Multi-AZ deployment as the database engine for its application. The company was recently acquired by another company. A database specialist must rename the database to follow a new naming standard.

Which combination of steps should the database specialist take to rename the database? (Choose two.)

A gaming company is evaluating Amazon ElastiCache as a solution to manage player leaderboards. Millions of players around the world will complete in annual tournaments. The company wants to implement an architecture that is highly available. The company also wants to ensure that maintenance activities have minimal impact on the availability of the gaming platform.

Which combination of steps should the company take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

The Security team for a finance company was notified of an internal security breach that happened 3 weeks ago. A Database Specialist must start producing audit logs out of the production Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL cluster for the Security team to use for monitoring and alerting. The Security team is required to perform real- time alerting and monitoring outside the Aurora DB cluster and wants to have the cluster push encrypted files to the chosen solution.

Which approach will meet these requirements?

A large IT hardware manufacturing company wants to deploy a MySQL database solution in the AWS Cloud. The solution should quickly create copies of the company's production databases for test purposes. The solution must deploy the test databases in minutes, and the test data should match the latest production data as closely as possible. Developers must also be able to make changes in the test database and delete the instances afterward.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A company has an Amazon Redshift cluster with database audit logging enabled. A security audit shows that raw SQL statements that run against the Redshift cluster are being logged to an Amazon S3 bucket. The security team requires that authentication logs are generated for use in an intrusion detection system (IDS), but the security team does not require SQL queries.

What should a database specialist do to remediate this issue?

A database specialist deployed an Amazon RDS DB instance in Dev-VPC1 used by their development team. Dev-VPC1 has a peering connection with Dev-VPC2 that belongs to a different development team in the same department. The networking team confirmed that the routing between VPCs is correct; however, the database engineers in Dev-VPC2 are getting a timeout connections error when trying to connect to the database in Dev- VPC1.

What is likely causing the timeouts?

Amazon Neptune is being used by a corporation as the graph database for one of its products. During an ETL procedure, the company's data science team produced enormous volumes of temporary data by unintentionally. The Neptune DB cluster extended its storage capacity automatically to handle the added data, but the data science team erased the superfluous data.

What should a database professional do to prevent incurring extra expenditures for cluster volume space that is not being used?

A large financial services company uses Amazon ElastiCache for Redis for its new application that has a global user base. A database administrator must develop a caching solution that will be available

across AWS Regions and include low-latency replication and failover capabilities for disaster recovery (DR). The company's security team requires the encryption of cross-Region data transfers.

Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational effort?

A company’s database specialist disabled TLS on an Amazon DocumentDB cluster to perform benchmarking tests. A few days after this change was implemented, a database specialist trainee accidentally deleted multiple tables. The database specialist restored the database from available snapshots. An hour after restoring the cluster, the database specialist is still unable to connect to the new cluster endpoint.

What should the database specialist do to connect to the new, restored Amazon DocumentDB cluster?

An ecommerce company has tasked a Database Specialist with creating a reporting dashboard that visualizes critical business metrics that will be pulled from the core production database running on Amazon Aurora. Data that is read by the dashboard should be available within 100 milliseconds of an update.

The Database Specialist needs to review the current configuration of the Aurora DB cluster and develop a

cost-effective solution. The solution needs to accommodate the unpredictable read workload from the reporting dashboard without any impact on the write availability and performance of the DB cluster.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A company has branch offices in the United States and Singapore. The company has a three-tier web application that uses a shared database. The database runs on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that is hosted in the us-west-2 Region. The application has a distributed front end that is deployed in us-west-2 and in the ap-southeast-1 Region. The company uses this front end as a dashboard that provides statistics to sales managers in each branch office.

The dashboard loads more slowly in the Singapore branch office than in the United States branch office. The company needs a solution so that the dashboard loads consistently for users in each location.

Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?

A database specialist needs to replace the encryption key for an Amazon RDS DB instance. The database specialist needs to take immediate action to ensure security of the database.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A database specialist has been entrusted by an ecommerce firm with designing a reporting dashboard that visualizes crucial business KPIs derived from the company's primary production database running on Amazon Aurora. The dashboard should be able to read data within 100 milliseconds after an update.

The Database Specialist must conduct an audit of the Aurora DB cluster's present setup and provide a cost-effective alternative. The solution must support the unexpected read demand generated by the reporting dashboard without impairing the DB cluster's write availability and performance.

Which solution satisfies these criteria?

A retail company is about to migrate its online and mobile store to AWS. The company’s CEO has strategic plans to grow the brand globally. A Database Specialist has been challenged to provide predictable read and write database performance with minimal operational overhead.

What should the Database Specialist do to meet these requirements?

A media company is using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to store user data. The RDS DB instance currently has a publicly accessible setting enabled and is hosted in a public subnet. Following a recent AWS Well- Architected Framework review, a Database Specialist was given new security requirements.

Only certain on-premises corporate network IPs should connect to the DB instance. Connectivity is allowed from the corporate network only.

Which combination of steps does the Database Specialist need to take to meet these new requirements? (Choose three.)

A stock market analysis firm maintains two locations: one in the us-east-1 Region and another in the eu-west-2 Region. The business want to build an AWS database solution capable of providing rapid and accurate updates.

Dashboards with advanced analytical queries are used to present data in the eu-west-2 office. Because the corporation will use these dashboards to make purchasing choices, they must have less than a second to obtain application data.

Which solution satisfies these criteria and gives the MOST CURRENT dashboard?

A gaming company has implemented a leaderboard in AWS using a Sorted Set data structure within Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. The ElastiCache cluster has been deployed with cluster mode disabled and has a replication group deployed with two additional replicas. The company is planning for a worldwide gaming event and is anticipating a higher write load than what the current cluster can handle.

Which method should a Database Specialist use to scale the ElastiCache cluster ahead of the upcoming event?

A financial company is running an Amazon Redshift cluster for one of its data warehouse solutions. The company needs to generate connection logs, user logs, and user activity logs. The company also must make these logs available for future analysis.

Which combination of steps should a database specialist take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)