AWSCertified Solutions Architect - Associate
Domain 4Objective 3
Task 4.3: Design Cost-Optimized Database Solutions SAA-C03 Practice Questions (Page 5)
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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Questions 21–25
- 21
A company currently runs a self-managed MySQL database on an Amazon EC2 instance. The database supports a production web application with predictable traffic. The company wants to reduce operational overhead and lower total cost of ownership. The database requires high availability with automatic failover and automated backups. Which solution should the solutions architect recommend?
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A solutions architect wants to identify underutilized Amazon RDS instances that could be right-sized to reduce costs. Which AWS tool would provide recommendations for right-sizing database instances?
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A company needs to store and query large volumes of structured data for business intelligence reporting. The queries are complex and involve aggregations across billions of rows. The workload is predictable and runs continuously. Which AWS database service is most cost-effective for this use case?
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A company runs a self-managed MongoDB database on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The database supports a production application with predictable traffic. The company wants to reduce operational overhead and lower total cost of ownership. The application requires high availability with automatic failover. Which solution should the solutions architect recommend?
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A company runs an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database that stores 5 TB of application data. The company has a compliance requirement to retain all data for 7 years. However, only the most recent 6 months of data is accessed frequently; older data is accessed less than once per quarter. The company wants to reduce storage costs while maintaining the ability to query the older data when needed. What should the solutions architect recommend?
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