AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate DEA-C01 — Topic 1 Question 61

Question

A company uses Amazon RDS for MySQL as the database for a critical application. The database workload is mostly writes, with a small number of reads. A data engineer notices that the CPU utilization of the DB instance is very high. The high CPU utilization is slowing down the application. The data engineer must reduce the CPU utilization of the DB Instance. Which actions should the data engineer take to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: A, D. The correct answer is A, D. Option A: Use the Performance Insights feature of Amazon RDS to identify queries that have high CPU utilization. Optimize the problematic queries. Option D: Upgrade to a larger instance size. Amazon RDS is a managed relational database that handles patching, backups and failover.

AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate DEA-C01 — Question 61