AWS Certified Developer - Associate DVA-C02 — Topic 1 Question 187

Question

A development team maintains a web application by using a single AWS RDS, template. The template defines web servers and an Amazon RDS database. The team uses the CloudFormation template to deploy the CloudFormation stack to different environments. During a recent application deployment, a developer caused the primary development database to be dropped and recreated. The result of this incident was a loss of data. The team needs to avoid accidental database deletion in the future. Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: A, B. The correct answer is A, B. Option A: Add a CloudFormation DeletionPolicy attribute with the Retain value to the database resource. Option B: Update the CloudFormation stack policy to prevent updates to the database. AWS CloudFormation provisions infrastructure as code repeatably.

AWS Certified Developer - Associate DVA-C02 — Question 187