AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Topic 1 Question 247

Question

A company has deployed a database in Amazon RDS for MySQL. Due to increased transactions, the database support team is reporting slow reads against the DB instance and recommends adding a read replica. Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take before implementing this change? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: C, E. The correct answer is C, E. Option C: Allow long-running transactions to complete on the source DB instance. Option E: Enable automatic backups on the source instance by setting the backup retention period to a value other than 0. AWS Backup centrally automates and manages backups across AWS services.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Question 247