A corporation is transitioning from an IBM Informix database to an Amazon RDS for SQL Server Multi-AZ implementation with Always On Availability Groups (AGs). SQL Server Agent tasks are scheduled to execute at 5-minute intervals on the Always On AG listener to synchronize data between the Informix and SQL Server databases. After a successful failover to the backup node with minimum delay, users endure hours of stale data.
How can a database professional guarantee that consumers view the most current data after a failover?
A company has a reporting application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in an isolated developer account on AWS. The application needs to retrieve data during non-peak company hours from an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database that runs in the companys production account The companys security team requires that access to production
resources complies with AWS best security practices
A database administrator needs to provide the reporting application with access to the production database. The company has already configured VPC peering between the production account and developer account The company has also updated the route tables in both accounts With the necessary entries to correctly set up VPC peering
What must the database administrator do to finish providing connectivity to the reporting application?
A company is running an on-premises application comprised of a web tier, an application tier, and a MySQL database tier. The database is used primarily during business hours with random activity peaks throughout the day. A database specialist needs to improve the availability and reduce the cost of the MySQL database tier as part of the company’s migration to AWS.
Which MySQL database option would meet these requirements?
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's application development team wants to share an automated snapshot of its Amazon RDS database with another team. The database is encrypted with a custom AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key under the "WeShare" AWS account. The application development team needs to share the DB snapshot under the "WeReceive" AWS account.
Which combination of actions must the application development team take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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 needs to review and optimize an Amazon DynamoDB table that is experiencing performance issues. A thorough investigation by the database specialist reveals that the partition key is causing hot partitions, so a new partition key is created. The database specialist must effectively apply this new partition key to all existing and new data.
How can this solution be implemented?
A company is using an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster with an xlarge primary instance master and two large Aurora Replicas for high availability and read-only workload scaling. A failover event occurs and application performance is poor for several minutes. During this time, application servers in all Availability Zones are healthy and responding normally.
What should the company do to eliminate this application performance issue?
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 company is looking to migrate a 1 TB Oracle database from on-premises to an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster. The company’s Database Specialist discovered that the Oracle database is storing 100 GB of large binary objects (LOBs) across multiple tables. The Oracle database has a maximum LOB size of 500 MB with an average LOB size of 350 MB. The Database Specialist has chosen AWS DMS to migrate the data with the largest replication instances.
How should the Database Specialist optimize the database migration using AWS DMS?
An online gaming company is using an Amazon DynamoDB table in on-demand mode to store game scores. After an intensive advertisement campaign in South
America, the average number of concurrent users rapidly increases from 100,000 to 500,000 in less than 10 minutes every day around 5 PM.
The on-call software reliability engineer has observed that the application logs contain a high number of DynamoDB throttling exceptions caused by game score insertions around 5 PM. Customer service has also reported that several users are complaining about their scores not being registered.
How should the database administrator remediate this issue at the lowest cost?
A company has two separate AWS accounts: one for the business unit and another for corporate analytics. The company wants to replicate the business unit data stored in Amazon RDS for MySQL in us-east-1 to its corporate analytics Amazon Redshift environment in us-west-1. The company wants to use AWS DMS with Amazon RDS as the source endpoint and Amazon Redshift as the target endpoint.
Which action will allow AVS DMS to perform the replication?
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?
A database specialist is launching a test graph database using Amazon Neptune for the first time. The database specialist needs to insert millions of rows of test observations from a .csv file that is stored in Amazon S3. The database specialist has been using a series of API calls to upload the data to the Neptune DB instance.
Which combination of steps would allow the database specialist to upload the data faster? (Choose three.)
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 ride-hailing application uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance as persistent storage for bookings. This application is very popular and the company expects a tenfold increase in the user base in next few months. The application experiences more traffic during the morning and evening hours.
This application has two parts:
A database specialist needs to design a cost-effective database solution to handle this workload. Which solution meets these requirements?
A database specialist was alerted that a production Amazon RDS MariaDB instance with 100 GB of storage was out of space. In response, the database specialist modified the DB instance and added 50 GB of storage capacity. Three hours later, a new alert is generated due to a lack of free space on the same DB instance. The database specialist decides to modify the instance immediately to increase its storage capacity by 20 GB.
What will happen when the modification is submitted?
A company has deployed an application that uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB cluster. The DB cluster uses three read replicas. The primary DB instance is an
8XL-sized instance, and the read replicas are each XL-sized instances.
Users report that database queries are returning stale data. The replication lag indicates that the replicas are 5 minutes behind the primary DB instance. Status queries on the replicas show that the SQL_THREAD is 10 binlogs behind the IO_THREAD and that the IO_THREAD is 1 binlog behind the primary.
Which changes will reduce the lag? (Choose two.)
A company runs hundreds of Microsoft SQL Server databases on Windows servers in its on-premises data center. A database specialist needs to migrate these databases to Linux on AWS.
Which combination of steps should the database specialist take to meet this requirement? (Choose three.)
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 coffee machine manufacturer is equipping all of its coffee machines with 10T sensors. The 10T core application is writing measurements for each record to Amazon Timestream. The records have multiple
dimensions and measures. The measures include multiple measure names and values.
An analysis application is running queries against the Timestream database and is focusing on data from the current week. A database specialist needs to optimize the query costs of the analysis application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon DynamoDB as the data store for its ecommerce website. The website receives little to no traffic at night, and the majority of the traffic occurs during the day. The traffic growth during peak hours is gradual and predictable on a daily basis, but it can be orders of magnitude higher than during off-peak hours.
The company initially provisioned capacity based on its average volume during the day without accounting for the variability in traffic patterns. However, the website is experiencing a significant amount of throttling during peak hours. The company wants to reduce the amount of throttling while minimizing costs.
What should a database specialist do to meet these requirements?
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?
An worldwide gaming company's development team is experimenting with using Amazon DynamoDB to store in-game events for three mobile titles. Maximum concurrent users for the most popular game is 500,000, while the least popular game is 10,000. The typical event is 20 KB in size, while the average user session generates one event each second. Each event is assigned a millisecond time stamp and a globally unique identification.
The lead developer generated a single DynamoDB database with the following structure for the events:
In a small-scale development setting, the tests were successful. When the application was deployed to production, however, new events were not being added to the database, and the logs indicated DynamoDB failures with the ItemCollectionSizeLimitExceededException issue code.
Which design modification should a database professional offer to the development team?
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.)
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 team of Database Specialists is currently investigating performance issues on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance and is reviewing related metrics. The team wants to narrow the possibilities down to specific database wait events to better understand the situation.
How can the Database Specialists accomplish this?
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 Database Specialist is creating a new Amazon Neptune DB cluster, and is attempting to load fata from Amazon S3 into the Neptune DB cluster using the Neptune bulk loader API. The Database Specialist receives the following error:
“Unable to connect to s3 endpoint. Provided source = s3://mybucket/graphdata/ and region = us-east-1. Please verify your S3 configuration.”
Which combination of actions should the Database Specialist take to troubleshoot the problem? (Choose two.)
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?
A Database Specialist is constructing a new Amazon Neptune DB cluster and tries to load data from Amazon S3 using the Neptune bulk loader API. The Database Specialist is confronted with the following error message:
€Unable to establish a connection to the s3 endpoint. The source URL is s3:/mybucket/graphdata/ and the region code is us-east-1. Kindly confirm your Configuration S3.
Which of the following activities should the Database Specialist take to resolve the issue? (Select two.)
A company is developing a multi-tier web application hosted on AWS using Amazon Aurora as the database. The application needs to be deployed to production and other non-production environments. A Database Specialist needs to specify different MasterUsername and MasterUserPassword properties in the AWS CloudFormation templates used for automated deployment. The CloudFormation templates are version controlled in the company’s code repository. The company also needs to meet compliance requirement by routinely rotating its database master password for production.
What is most secure solution to store the master password?
A business's production databases are housed on a 3 TB Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. The database cluster is installed in the region us-east-1. For disaster recovery (DR) requirements, the company's database expert needs to fast deploy the DB cluster in another AWS Region to handle the production load with an RTO of less than two hours.
Which approach is the MOST OPERATIONALLY EFFECTIVE in meeting these requirements?
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 professional is developing an application that will respond to single-instance requests. The program will query large amounts of client data and offer end users with results.
These reports may include a variety of fields. The database specialist want to enable users to query the database using any of the fields offered.
During peak periods, the database's traffic volume will be significant yet changeable. However, the database will see little activity over the rest of the day.
Which approach will be the most cost-effective in meeting these requirements?
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 financial company has allocated an Amazon RDS MariaDB DB instance with large storage capacity to accommodate migration efforts. Post-migration, the company purged unwanted data from the instance. The company now want to downsize storage to save money. The solution must have the least impact on production and near-zero downtime.
Which solution would meet these requirements?
Amazon DynamoDB global tables are being used by a business to power an online gaming game. The game is played by gamers from all around the globe. As the game became popularity, the amount of queries to DynamoDB substantially rose. Recently, gamers have complained about the game's condition being inconsistent between nations. A database professional notices that the ReplicationLatency metric for many replica tables is set to an abnormally high value.
Which strategy will resolve the issue?
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?
To meet new data compliance requirements, a company needs to keep critical data durably stored and readily accessible for 7 years. Data that is more than 1 year old is considered archival data and must automatically be moved out of the Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster every week. On average, around 10 GB of new data is added to the database every month. A database specialist must choose the most operationally efficient solution to migrate the archival data to Amazon S3.
Which solution meets 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?
An advertising company is developing a backend for a bidding platform. The company needs a cost-effective datastore solution that will accommodate a sudden increase in the volume of write transactions. The database also needs to make data changes available in a near real-time data stream.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A large gaming company is creating a centralized solution to store player session state for multiple online games. The workload required key-value storage with low latency and will be an equal mix of reads and writes. Data should be written into the AWS Region closest to the user across the games’ geographically distributed user base. The architecture should minimize the amount of overhead required to manage the replication of data between Regions.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company is using a Single-AZ Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance for development. The DB instance is experiencing slow performance when queries are executed. Amazon CloudWatch metrics indicate that the instance requires more I/O capacity.
Which actions can a database specialist perform to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)
A company has a production Amazon Aurora Db cluster that serves both online transaction processing (OLTP) transactions and compute-intensive reports. The reports run for 10% of the total cluster uptime while the OLTP transactions run all the time. The company has benchmarked its workload and determined that a six-node Aurora DB cluster is appropriate for the peak workload.
The company is now looking at cutting costs for this DB cluster, but needs to have a sufficient number of nodes in the cluster to support the workload at different times. The workload has not changed since the previous benchmarking exercise.
How can a Database Specialist address these requirements with minimal user involvement?
AWS CloudFormation stack including an Amazon RDS database instance was mistakenly removed, resulting in the loss of recent data. A Database Specialist must apply RDS parameters to the CloudFormation template in order to minimize the possibility of future inadvertent instance data loss.
Which settings will satisfy this criterion? (Select three.)
A company is moving its fraud detection application from on premises to the AWS Cloud and is using Amazon Neptune for data storage. The company has set up a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection to migrate 25 TB of fraud detection data from the on-premises data center to a Neptune DB instance. The company already has an Amazon S3 bucket and an S3 VPC endpoint, and 80% of the company’s network bandwidth is available.
How should the company perform this data load?
A manufacturing company has an. inventory system that stores information in an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. The database tables are partitioned. The database size has grown to 3 TB. Users run one-time queries by using a SQL client. Queries that use an equijoin to join large tables are taking a long time to run.
Which action will improve query performance with the LEAST operational effort?
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 database specialist is building a system that uses a static vendor dataset of postal codes and related territory information that is less than 1 GB in size. The dataset is loaded into the application’s cache at start up. The company needs to store this data in a way that provides the lowest cost with a low application startup time.
Which approach will meet these requirements?
A Database Specialist is performing a proof of concept with Amazon Aurora using a small instance to confirm a simple database behavior. When loading a large dataset and creating the index, the Database Specialist encounters the following error message from Aurora:
ERROR: cloud not write block 7507718 of temporary file: No space left on device
What is the cause of this error and what should the Database Specialist do to resolve this issue?
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 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?
Amazon RDS for Oracle with Transparent Data Encryption is used by a financial services organization (TDE). At all times, the organization is obligated to encrypt its data at rest. The decryption key must be widely distributed, and access to the key must be restricted. The organization must be able to rotate the encryption key on demand to comply with regulatory requirements. If any possible security vulnerabilities are discovered, the organization must be able to disable the key. Additionally, the company's overhead must be kept to a minimal.
What method should the database administrator use to configure the encryption to fulfill these specifications?
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?
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 business is operating an on-premises application that is divided into three tiers: web, application, and MySQL database. The database is predominantly accessed during business hours, with occasional bursts of activity throughout the day. As part of the company's shift to AWS, a database expert wants to increase the availability and minimize the cost of the MySQL database tier.
Which MySQL database choice satisfies these criteria?
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 development team asks a database specialist to create a copy of a production Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance every morning. The development team will use the copied DB instance as a testing environment for development. The original DB instance and the copy will be hosted in different VPCs of the same AWS account. The development team wants the copy to be available by 6 AM each day and wants to use the same endpoint address each day.
Which combination of steps should the database specialist take to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose three.)
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:
Which database engine meets these requirements?
A company is building a software as a service application. As part of the new user sign-on workflow, a Python script invokes the CreateTable operation using the Amazon DynamoDB API. After the call returns, the script attempts to call PutItem.
Occasionally, the PutItem request fails with a ResourceNotFoundException error, which causes the workflow to fail. The development team has confirmed that the same table name is used in the two API calls.
How should a database specialist fix this issue?
A company’s ecommerce website uses Amazon DynamoDB for purchase orders. Each order is made up of a Customer ID and an Order ID. The DynamoDB table uses the Customer ID as the partition key and the Order ID as the sort key.
To meet a new requirement, the company also wants the ability to query the table by using a third attribute named Invoice ID. Queries using the Invoice ID must be strongly consistent. A database specialist must provide this capability with optimal performance and minimal overhead.
What should the database administrator do to meet these requirements?
A corporation wishes to move a 1 TB Oracle database from its current location to an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster. The database specialist at the firm noticed that the Oracle database stores 100 GB of large binary objects (LOBs) across many tables. The Oracle database supports LOBs up to 500 MB in size and an average of 350 MB. AWS DMS was picked by the Database Specialist to transfer the data with the most replication instances.
How should the database specialist improve the transfer of the database to AWS DMS?
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 company is building a new web platform where user requests trigger an AWS Lambda function that performs an insert into an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. Initial tests with less than 10 users on the new platform yielded successful execution and fast response times. However, upon more extensive tests with the actual target of 3,000 concurrent users, Lambda functions are unable to connect to the DB cluster and receive too many connections errors.
Which of the following will resolve this issue?
A company is hosting critical business data in an Amazon Redshift cluster. Due to the sensitive nature of the data, the cluster is encrypted at rest using AWS KMS. As a part of disaster recovery requirements, the company needs to copy the Amazon Redshift snapshots to another Region.
Which steps should be taken in the AWS Management Console to meet the disaster recovery requirements?
A company is running a website on Amazon EC2 instances deployed in multiple Availability Zones (AZs). The site performs a high number of repetitive reads and writes each second on an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi- AZ DB instance with General Purpose SSD (gp2) storage. After comprehensive testing and analysis, a database specialist discovers that there is high read latency and high CPU utilization on the DB instance.
Which approach should the database specialist to take to resolve this issue without changing the application?
A company stores critical data for a department in Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instances. The department was closed for 3 weeks and notified a database specialist that access to the RDS DB instances should not be granted to anyone during this time. To meet this requirement, the database specialist stopped all the
DB instances used by the department but did not select the option to create a snapshot. Before the 3 weeks expired, the database specialist discovered that users could connect to the database successfully.
What could be the reason for this?
A business uses Amazon EC2 instances in VPC A to serve an internal file-sharing application. This application is supported by an Amazon ElastiCache cluster in VPC B that is peering with VPC A. The corporation migrates the instances of its applications from VPC A to VPC B. The file-sharing application is no longer able to connect to the ElastiCache cluster, as shown by the logs.
What is the best course of action for a database professional to take in order to remedy this issue?
A manufacturing company stores its inventory details in an Amazon DynamoDB table in the us-east-2 Region. According to new compliance and regulatory policies, the company is required to back up all of its tables nightly and store these backups in the us-west-2 Region for disaster recovery for 1 year
Which solution MOST cost-effectively 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?
A marketing company is developing an application to track responses to email message campaigns. The company needs a database storage solution that is optimized to work with highly connected data. The database needs to limit connections and programmatic access to the data by using IAM policies.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A global company is developing an application across multiple AWS Regions. The company needs a database solution with low latency in each Region and automatic disaster recovery. The database must be deployed in an active-active configuration with automatic data synchronization between Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LOWEST latency?
A company has an AWS CloudFormation template written in JSON that is used to launch new Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instances. The security team has asked a database specialist to ensure that the master password is automatically rotated every 30 days for all new DB instances that are launched using the template.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution to meet these requirements?
A large ecommerce company uses Amazon DynamoDB to handle the transactions on its web portal. Traffic patterns throughout the year are usually stable; however, a large event is planned. The company knows that traffic will increase by up to 10 times the normal load over the 3-day event. When sale prices are published during the event, traffic will spike rapidly.
How should a Database Specialist ensure DynamoDB can handle the increased traffic?
A company has an application that uses an Amazon DynamoDB table as its data store. During normal business days, the throughput requirements from the application are uniform and consist of 5 standard write calls per second to the DynamoDB table. Each write call has 2 KB of data.
For 1 hour each day, the company runs an additional automated job on the DynamoDB table that makes 20 write requests per second. No other application writes to the DynamoDB table. The DynamoDB table does not have to meet any additional capacity requirements.
How should a database specialist configure the DynamoDB table's capacity to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company's applications store data in Amazon Aurora MySQL DB clusters. The company has separate AWS accounts for its production, test, and development environments. To test new functionality in the test environment, the company's development team requires a copy of the production database four times a day.
Which solution meets this requirement with the MOST operational efficiency?
A business maintains a SQL Server database on-premises. Active Directory authentication is used to provide users access to the database. The organization transferred their database successfully to Amazon RDS for SQL Server. The organization, however, has reservations regarding user authentication in the AWS Cloud environment.
Which authentication solution should a database professional provide?
A company is running a blogging platform. A security audit determines that the Amazon RDS DB instance that is used by the platform is not configured to encrypt the data at rest. The company must encrypt the DB instance within 30 days.
What should a database specialist do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of downtime?
A Database Specialist needs to define a database migration strategy to migrate an on-premises Oracle database to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. The company requires near-zero downtime for the data migration. The solution must also be cost-effective.
Which approach should the Database Specialist take?
A company has applications running on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet with no internet connectivity. The company deployed a new application that uses Amazon DynamoDB, but the application cannot connect to the DynamoDB tables. A developer already checked that all permissions are set correctly.
What should a database specialist do to resolve this issue while minimizing access to external resources?
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?
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 database specialist needs to enable IAM authentication on an existing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster. The database specialist already has modified the DB cluster settings, has created IAM and database credentials, and has distributed the credentials to the appropriate users.
What should the database specialist do next to establish the credentials for the users to use to log in to the DB cluster?
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 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 Database Specialist is migrating a 2 TB Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance to an RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance using AWS DMS. The source RDS Oracle DB instance is in a VPC in the us-east-1 Region. The target RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance is in a VPC in the use-west-2 Region.
Where should the AWS DMS replication instance be placed for the MOST optimal performance?
A healthcare company is running an application on Amazon EC2 in a public subnet and using Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as the storage layer. An audit reveals that the traffic between
the application and Amazon DocumentDB is not encrypted and that the DocumentDB cluster is not encrypted at rest. A database specialist must correct these issues and ensure that the data in transit and the
data at rest are encrypted.
Which actions should the database specialist take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
On a single Amazon RDS DB instance, a business hosts a MySQL database for its ecommerce application. Automatically saving application purchases to the database results in high-volume writes. Employees routinely create purchase reports for the company. The organization wants to boost database performance and minimize downtime associated with upgrade patching.
Which technique will satisfy these criteria with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?