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?
An ecommerce company uses Amazon DynamoDB as the backend for its payments system. A new regulation requires the company to log all data access requests for financial audits. For this purpose, the company plans to use AWS logging and save logs to Amazon S3
How can a database specialist activate logging on the database?
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 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 company stores session history for its users in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company has a large user base and generates large amounts of session data.
Teams analyze the session data for 1 week, and then the data is no longer needed. A database specialist needs to design an automated solution to purge session data that is more than 1 week old.
Which strategy meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company is concerned about the cost of a large-scale, transactional application using Amazon DynamoDB that only needs to store data for 2 days before it is deleted. In looking at the tables, a Database Specialist notices that much of the data is months old, and goes back to when the application was first deployed.
What can the Database Specialist do to reduce the overall cost?
An ecommerce company uses a backend application that stores data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The backend application runs in a private subnet in a VPC and must connect to this table.
The company must minimize any network latency that results from network connectivity issues, even during periods of heavy application usage. A database administrator also needs the ability to use a private connection to connect to the DynamoDB table from the application.
Which solution will 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 an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance for its customer relationship management (CRM) system. New compliance requirements specify that the database must be encrypted at rest.
Which action will meet these requirements?
A company is using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for the backend of its application. The system users are complaining that the responses are slow. A database specialist has determined that the queries to Aurora take longer during peak times. With the Amazon RDS Performance Insights dashboard, the load in the chart for average active sessions is often above the line that denotes maximum CPU usage and the wait state shows that most wait events are IO:XactSync.
What should the company do to resolve these performance issues?
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?
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'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 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?
An electric utility company wants to store power plant sensor data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The utility company has over 100 power plants and each power plant has over 200 sensors that send data every 2 seconds. The sensor data includes time with milliseconds precision, a value, and a fault attribute if the sensor is malfunctioning. Power plants are identified by a globally unique identifier. Sensors are identified by a unique identifier within each power plant. A database specialist needs to design the table to support an efficient method of finding all faulty sensors within a given power plant.
Which schema should the database specialist use when creating the DynamoDB table to achieve the fastest query time when looking for faulty sensors?
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 business is transferring its on-premises database workloads to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. A database professional migrating an Oracle database with a huge table to Amazon RDS has picked AWS DMS. The database professional observes that AWS DMS is consuming considerable time migrating the data.
Which activities would increase the pace of data migration? (Select three.)
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 retail company manages a web application that stores data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company is undergoing account consolidation efforts. A database engineer needs to migrate the DynamoDB table from the current AWS account to a new AWS account.
Which strategy meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of administrative work?
A software development company is using Amazon Aurora MySQL DB clusters for several use cases, including development and reporting. These use cases place unpredictable and varying demands on the Aurora DB clusters, and can cause momentary spikes in latency. System users run ad-hoc queries sporadically throughout the week. Cost is a primary concern for the company, and a solution that does not require significant rework is needed.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A database specialist is designing an enterprise application for a large company. The application uses Amazon DynamoDB with DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX).
The database specialist observes that most of the queries are not found in the DAX cache and that they still require DynamoDB table reads.
What should the database specialist review first to improve the utility of DAX?
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 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's application team needs to select an AWS managed database service to store application and user data. The application team is familiar with MySQL but is open to new solutions. The application and user data is stored in 10 tables and is de-normalized. The application will access this data through an API layer using an unique ID in each table. The company expects the traffic to be light at first, but the traffic Will Increase to thousands of transactions each second within the first year- The database service must support active reads
and writes in multiple AWS Regions at the same time_ Query response times need to be less than 100 ms Which AWS database solution will meet these requirements?
A financial services company is using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS OMS) to migrate Its databases from on-premises to AWS. A database administrator is working on replicating a database to AWS from on-premises using full load and change data capture (CDC). During the CDC replication, the database administrator observed that the target latency was high and slowly increasing-
What could be the root causes for this high target latency? (Select TWO.)
A company has an AWS CloudFormation stack that defines an Amazon RDS DB instance. The company accidentally deletes the stack and loses recent data from the DB instance. A database specialist must change the CloudFormation template for the RDS resource to reduce the chance of accidental data loss from the DB instance in the future.
Which combination of actions should the database specialist take to meet this requirement? (Choose three.)
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 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 is running a business-critical application on premises by using Microsoft SQL Server. A database specialist is planning to migrate the instance with several databases to the AWS Cloud. The database specialist will use SQL Server Standard edition hosted on Amazon EC2 Windows instances. The solution must provide high availability and must avoid a single point of failure in the SQL Server deployment architecture.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 company's development team needs to have production data restored in a staging AWS account. The production database is running on an Amazon RDS for
PostgreSQL Multi-AZ DB instance, which has AWS KMS encryption enabled using the default KMS key. A database specialist planned to share the most recent automated snapshot with the staging account, but discovered that the option to share snapshots is disabled in the AWS Management Console.
What should the database specialist do to resolve this?
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 major organization maintains a number of Amazon DB clusters. Each of these clusters is configured differently to meet certain needs. These configurations may be classified into wider groups based on the team and use case.
A database administrator wishes to streamline the process of storing and updating these settings. Additionally, the database administrator want to guarantee that changes to certain configuration categories are automatically implemented to all instances as necessary.
Which AWS service or functionality will assist in automating and achieving this goal?
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 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?
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 banking company recently launched an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance as part of a proof-of-concept project. A database specialist has configured automated database snapshots. As a part of routine testing, the database specialist noticed one day that the automated database snapshot was not created.
Which of the following are possible reasons why the snapshot was not created? (Choose two.)
A gaming company is developing a new mobile game and decides to store the data for each user in Amazon DynamoDB. To make the registration process as easy as possible, users can log in with their existing Facebook or Amazon accounts. The company expects more than 10,000 users.
How should a database specialist implement access control with the LEAST operational effort?
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 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 financial institution uses AWS to host its online application. Amazon RDS for MySQL is used to host the application's database, which includes automatic backups.
The program has corrupted the database logically, resulting in the application being unresponsive. The exact moment the corruption occurred has been determined, and it occurred within the backup retention period.
How should a database professional restore a database to its previous state prior to corruption?
A company plans to use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate its database from one Amazon EC2 instance to another EC2 instance as a full load task. The company wants the database to be inactive during the migration. The company will use a dms.t3.medium instance to perform the migration and will use the default settings for the migration.
Which solution will MOST improve the performance of the data migration?
A gaming company is building a mobile game that will have as many as 25,000 active concurrent users in the first 2 weeks after launch. The game has a leaderboard that shows the 10 highest scoring players over the last 24 hours. The leaderboard calculations are processed by an AWS Lambda function, which takes about 10 seconds. The company wants the data on the leaderboard to be no more than 1 minute old.
Which architecture will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
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?
A company is using Amazon Redshift. A database specialist needs to allow an existing Redshift cluster to access data from other Redshift clusters. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases, and AWS Glue Data Catalog tables.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency? (Choose three.)
A database specialist needs to delete user data and sensor data 1 year after it was loaded in an Amazon DynamoDB table. TTL is enabled on one of the attributes. The database specialist monitors TTL rates on the Amazon CloudWatch metrics for the table and observes that items are not being deleted as expected.
What is the MOST likely reason that the items are not being deleted?
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 is using Amazon with Aurora Replicas for read-only workload scaling. A Database Specialist needs to split up two read-only applications so each application always connects to a dedicated replica. The Database Specialist wants to implement load balancing and high availability for the read-only applications.
Which solution meets these requirements?
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?
A company has an on-premises production Microsoft SQL Server with 250 GB of data in one database. A database specialist needs to migrate this on-premises
SQL Server to Amazon RDS for SQL Server. The nightly native SQL Server backup file is approximately 120 GB in size. The application can be down for an extended period of time to complete the migration. Connectivity between the on-premises environment and AWS can be initiated from on-premises only.
How can the database be migrated from on-premises to Amazon RDS with the LEAST amount of effort?
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 company is using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The Security team wants all database connection requests to be logged and retained for 180 days. The RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance is currently using the default parameter group. A Database Specialist has identified that setting the log_connections parameter to 1 will enable connections logging.
Which combination of steps should the Database Specialist take to meet the logging and retention requirements? (Choose two.)
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 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 database specialist needs to reduce the cost of an application's database. The database is running on a Multi-AZ deployment of an Amazon ROS for Microsoft SQL Server DB instance. The application requires the database to support stored procedures, SQL Server Wire Protocol (TDS), and T-SQC The database must also be highly available. The database specialist is using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate the database to a new data store.
Which solution will reduce the cost of the database with the LEAST effort?
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 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 large company has a variety of Amazon DB clusters. Each of these clusters has various configurations that adhere to various requirements. Depending on the team and use case, these configurations can be organized into broader categories.
A database administrator wants to make the process of storing and modifying these parameters more systematic. The database administrator also wants to ensure that changes to individual categories of configurations are automatically applied to all instances when required.
Which AWS service or feature will help automate and achieve this objective?
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 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?
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 manufacturing company’s website uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster.
Which configurations will result in the LEAST application downtime during a failover? (Choose three.)
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 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 is planning to close for several days. A Database Specialist needs to stop all applications along with the DB instances to ensure employees do not have access to the systems during this time. All databases are running on Amazon RDS for MySQL.
The Database Specialist wrote and executed a script to stop all the DB instances. When reviewing the logs, the Database Specialist found that Amazon RDS DB instances with read replicas did not stop.
How should the Database Specialist edit the script to fix this issue?
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 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 needs a data warehouse solution that keeps data in a consistent, highly structured format. The company requires fast responses for end-user queries when looking at data from the current year, and users must have access to the full 15-year dataset, when needed. This solution also needs to handle a fluctuating number incoming queries. Storage costs for the 100 TB of data must be kept low.
Which solution meets these requirements?
Recently, an ecommerce business transferred one of its SQL Server databases to an Amazon RDS for SQL Server Enterprise Edition database instance. The corporation anticipates an increase in read traffic as a result of an approaching sale. To accommodate the projected read load, a database professional must establish a read replica of the database instance.
Which procedures should the database professional do prior to establishing the read replica? (Select two.)
A company maintains several databases using Amazon RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Each RDS database generates log files with retention periods set to their default values. The company has now mandated that database logs be maintained for up to 90 days in a centralized repository to facilitate real-time and after- the-fact analyses.
What should a Database Specialist do to meet these requirements with minimal effort?
A user has a non-relational key-value database. The user is looking for a fully managed AWS service that will offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling distributed databases. The solution must be cost- effective and able to handle unpredictable application traffic.
What should a Database Specialist recommend for this user?
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 has an ecommerce web application with an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The marketing team has noticed some unexpected updates to the product and pricing information on the website, which is impacting sales targets. The marketing team wants a database specialist to audit future database activity to help identify how and when the changes are being made.
What should the database specialist do to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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?
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 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?
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 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 must create a read replica to isolate read-only queries for an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. Immediately after creating the read replica, users that query it report slow response times.
What could be causing these slow response times?
A pharmaceutical company's drug search API is using an Amazon Neptune DB cluster. A bulk uploader process automatically updates the information in the database a few times each week. A few weeks ago during a bulk upload, a database specialist noticed that the database started to respond frequently with a
ThrottlingException error. The problem also occurred with subsequent uploads.
The database specialist must create a solution to prevent ThrottlingException errors for the database. The solution must minimize the downtime of the cluster.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A business need a data warehouse system that stores data consistently and in a highly organized fashion. The organization demands rapid response times for end-user inquiries including current-year data, and users must have access to the whole 15-year dataset when necessary. Additionally, this solution must be able to manage a variable volume of incoming inquiries. Costs associated with storing the 100 TB of data must be maintained to a minimum.
Which solution satisfies these criteria?
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 company is using Amazon Aurora MySQL as the database for its retail application on AWS. The company receives a notification of a pending database upgrade and wants to ensure upgrades do not occur before or during the most critical time of year. Company leadership is concerned that an Amazon RDS maintenance window will cause an outage during data ingestion.
Which step can be taken to ensure that the application is not interrupted?
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 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 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 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 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 database specialist is constructing an AWS CloudFormation stack using AWS CloudFormation. The database expert wishes to avoid the stack's Amazon RDS ProductionDatabase resource being accidentally deleted.
Which solution will satisfy this criterion?
A company is going through a security audit. The audit team has identified cleartext master user password in the AWS CloudFormation templates for Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instances. The audit team has flagged this as a security risk to the database team.
What should a database specialist do to mitigate this risk?
A finance company migrated its 3 ׀¢׀’ on-premises PostgreSQL database to an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster. During a review after the migration, a database specialist discovers that the database is not encrypted at rest. The database must be encrypted at rest as soon as possible to meet security requirements. The database specialist must enable encryption for the DB cluster with minimal downtime.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
On AWS, a business is developing a web application. The application needs that the database supports concurrent read and write activities in several AWS Regions. Additionally, the database must communicate data changes across Regions as they occur. The application must be highly available and have a latency of less than a few hundred milliseconds.
Which solution satisfies these criteria?
A database expert is responsible for building a highly available online transaction processing (OLTP) solution that makes use of Amazon RDS for MySQL production databases. Disaster recovery criteria include a cross-regional deployment and an RPO and RTO of 5 and 30 minutes, respectively.
What should the database professional do to ensure that the database meets the criteria for high availability and disaster recovery?
A company developed an AWS CloudFormation template used to create all new Amazon DynamoDB tables in its AWS account. The template configures provisioned throughput capacity using hard-coded values. The company wants to change the template so that the tables it creates in the future have independently configurable read and write capacity units assigned.
Which solution will enable this change?