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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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Chapter 9

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You do not know when the peak hours for this application are, so setting backups to midnight might make things worse.

Setting reserved-memory-percent stops backups from taking all the memory and is correct.

Running a backup from the read replica will also reduce the load on the primary instance and is correct.

Additional read replicas will not help as the load is on the primary instance.

Increasing the number of shards will not help as the load will remain the same.

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Write-through applies the changes to the cache first before writing to the database so the data is always current, and this is the correct answer.

Lazy-loading is where the cache only loads data after it is requested and it doesn't maintain current data.

Cache-aside is where the application can directly access both the database and the cache.

Read-through is where the application can only access the cache directly.

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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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