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Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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Let's now practice a few exam-style questions:

  1. End users of an application are complaining that they are experiencing intermittent performance issues with RDS for MySQL. After investigation, a database specialist determines that the performance issues occur during the automated backup window. What actions can the specialist perform to improve backup performance? (Select two.)
    1. Schedule an automated backup window to occur outside of peak hours.
    2. Increase the instance class.
    3. Create backups from a read replica.
    4. Increase the number of shards.
    5. Increase the storage on the RDS instance.
    6. Change the storage to provisioned Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS).
  2. Your company has a policy that requires all RDS backups to occur automatically on a specified schedule and be stored for 90 days. What is the optimal solution to meet this requirement?
    1. Create an AWS Backup policy for all RDS databases to include automated backups on RDS. Configure the data retention period to 90 days...
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
Read more about Kate Gawron