DBS-C01 Management and Operations Practice Question
A company needs to audit all SQL queries executed on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instance. Which feature should the company enable?
⚠ Common exam trap
Test-takers frequently confuse Database Activity Streams (a real RDS feature for streaming activity to Kinesis) with a full SQL audit log, but Database Activity Streams does not capture every SQL query in a traditional audit log format and requires additional processing, whereas pgAudit directly writes detailed SQL logs to the RDS log files.
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pgAudit extension
PgAudit (PostgreSQL Audit Extension) is the native, supported way to log all SQL queries on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. It provides detailed session and object audit logging via the shared_preload_libraries parameter, capturing every executed statement without requiring external tools or additional infrastructure.
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pgAudit extension
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pgAudit provides detailed audit logs.
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Advanced Audit
Why it's wrong here
This is for MySQL.
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Database Activity Streams
Why it's wrong here
Not supported for PostgreSQL.
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Fine-Grained Auditing
Why it's wrong here
This is for Oracle.
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