AWSCertified Solutions Architect - Associate
Domain 4Objective 3
Task 4.3: Design Cost-Optimized Database Solutions SAA-C03 Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the Design Cost-Optimized Architectures domain, which makes up ~31% of our current practice bank. AWS does not publish an official question count, but from its 130-minute exam (~50–85 total, ~16–26 in this domain), expect 4–7 from this objective — we provide 26 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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A solutions architect needs to choose a database service for a new application that requires a relational data model with ACID transactions, but the workload is intermittent and has low average utilization. The team wants to minimize costs by paying only for the database capacity actually used. Which AWS database option best meets these requirements?
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A company runs an Amazon RDS for MySQL database with General Purpose SSD (gp2) storage. The database has 2 TB of allocated storage but only 300 GB is actively used. The workload is write-heavy with occasional bursts of high IOPS. The company wants to reduce storage costs while maintaining performance. What should the solutions architect recommend?
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A company has an application that uses Amazon DynamoDB. The workload is highly variable with unpredictable traffic spikes. The team wants to avoid paying for unused capacity and wants costs to align with actual usage. Which DynamoDB capacity mode is most appropriate?
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A company runs an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instance that is consistently underutilized. The database is used for a development environment and is only accessed during business hours. Which action would best reduce costs while maintaining adequate performance for the development workload?
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A company wants to analyze its Amazon RDS spending over the past six months to identify trends and potential cost savings. Which AWS tool is best suited for this analysis?
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