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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. You are a database consultant for a small local company. The company needs to monitor the read and write Input/output Operations Per Second (IOPS) metrics for their AWS MySQL RDS instance and send real-time alerts to their database team. Which AWS services can accomplish this as simply and at as low cost as possible? Choose two answers:
    1. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
    2. Amazon CloudWatch
    3. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
    4. Amazon SNS
    5. AWS Lambda
  2. You are a database administrator for an online shopping company. Over the weekend, their critical production database went down due to a larger than expected number of orders. What type of alarms could you create to get a warning of abnormal database load?
    1. Create a CloudWatch alarm based on a static metric, such as database connections or CPU.
    2. Use Performance Insights to observe database load statistics in real time.
    3. Create a custom AWS Lambda function to run a script against the...
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Published in: May 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803243108

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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