DBS-C01 Monitoring and Troubleshooting Practice Question
Which TWO tools can be used to monitor query performance in Amazon Aurora MySQL? (Choose 2.)
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
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Amazon RDS Performance Insights
A is correct: Amazon RDS Performance Insights provides a visualization of database performance, including metrics like average active sessions, which helps identify query performance issues. C is correct: Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring provides OS-level metrics such as CPU, memory, and disk I/O, which can help correlate with query performance. B is incorrect: AWS Config is a service for configuration audit and compliance, not for real-time performance monitoring. D is incorrect: VPC Flow Logs capture network traffic metadata and are not specific to query performance. E is incorrect: AWS CloudTrail logs API calls for governance and compliance, not database query performance.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Amazon RDS Performance Insights
Why this is correct
Shows database load and SQL queries.
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AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
Configuration tracking.
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Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring
Why this is correct
Provides OS metrics.
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VPC Flow Logs
Why it's wrong here
Network traffic logs.
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AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
Logs API calls.
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