DBS-C01 Monitoring and Troubleshooting Practice Question
A database administrator notices that an Amazon RDS for Oracle instance has a high number of connections, causing performance degradation. Which tool can be used to identify the active sessions and their queries?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
✓
Performance Insights
Performance Insights provides a dashboard to monitor active sessions and the queries they are running. Option A is incorrect because Amazon Inspector is a security assessment tool, not a monitoring tool for database sessions. Option C is incorrect because RDS Enhanced Monitoring provides OS-level metrics like CPU and memory, not database session details. Option D is incorrect because AWS CloudTrail logs API calls, not database sessions or queries.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
Amazon Inspector
Why it's wrong here
Inspector is a security assessment tool.
- ✓
Performance Insights
Why this is correct
Performance Insights shows active sessions and their queries.
- ✗
RDS Enhanced Monitoring
Why it's wrong here
Enhanced Monitoring provides OS metrics, not session details.
- ✗
AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
CloudTrail logs API calls, not database sessions.
Go deeper
Related to this question
About these practice questions
Courseiva writes every DBS-C01 question from scratch — 1,663 in total, each with an explanation and a wrong-answer breakdown. None are copied from real exams or dumps. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
JA
Written by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
This DBS-C01 practice question is part of Courseiva's free Amazon Web Services certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the DBS-C01 exam.