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AWS Certified Database Specialty DBS-C01 Practice Test

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Q1Workload-Specific Database Designmedium
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A company is migrating an on-premises PostgreSQL database to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The database has a large table that is frequently accessed by reporting queries. The reporting queries filter on a column that has a high cardinality but low selectivity. To optimize query performance on this table, which design choice should the database specialist recommend?

APartition the table by the filter column
BUse a read replica to offload reporting queries
CIncrease the provisioned read IOPS for the RDS instance
Create a covering index on the filter columnCorrect

Option D is correct because a covering index includes all columns needed by the reporting queries, allowing PostgreSQL to satisfy the query entirely from the index without accessing the heap (table) pages. This eliminates the overhead of random I/O for row lookups, which is espec…Read full explanation

Q2Workload-Specific Database Designhard
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A company is designing a new e-commerce platform using Amazon DynamoDB. The workload requires single-digit millisecond latency for user session data, which is accessed by session token. The session data is temporary and should be automatically deleted after 24 hours. Which DynamoDB design should the database specialist recommend?

ACreate an AWS Lambda function that runs every hour and deletes expired session data
BStore session data in Amazon S3 with a lifecycle policy to delete objects after 24 hours
CUse DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) to cache session data and set a 24-hour TTL on the cache
Enable DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL) on the session token attributeCorrect

DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL) automatically deletes expired items after a specified timestamp, making it ideal for session data that must be removed after 24 hours. This approach requires no additional infrastructure, meets the single-digit millisecond latency requirement by using …Read full explanation

Q3Workload-Specific Database Designeasy
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A financial services company is migrating its Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database runs a critical batch processing job every night that updates millions of rows. The company needs the migration to minimize downtime and ensure data integrity. Which AWS service should the database specialist use to perform the migration?

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) with ongoing replication from Oracle to Aurora PostgreSQLCorrect
BAWS Data Pipeline to export data from Oracle and import into Aurora PostgreSQL
CAWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to convert the schema and then use native PostgreSQL tools to migrate data
DAWS Glue to extract data from Oracle and load into Aurora PostgreSQL

AWS DMS with ongoing replication (change data capture, CDC) is the correct choice because it enables a near-zero-downtime migration by continuously replicating changes from the source Oracle database to the target Aurora PostgreSQL while the source remains fully operational. Afte…Read full explanation

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