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Browse all 11 practice questions covering AWS Database Architecture for the SAP-C02 certification exam. Answers are intentionally hidden on this page so you can self-test first before checking results in quiz mode.
- Question 1Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
A company migrates a 20TB on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. They want continuous replication from Oracle to Aurora during the migration window to minimize downtime. Which service handles this heterogeneous migration with CDC?
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Start SAP-C02 Quiz - Question 2Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
A financial company needs to migrate a tier-1 Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with near-zero downtime. What is the RECOMMENDED approach?
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Start SAP-C02 Quiz - Question 3Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
A company wants to improve their RTO for an RDS database from 4 hours to 15 minutes. Current strategy is daily snapshots to S3. What change achieves this?
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Start SAP-C02 Quiz - Question 4Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company needs to share an Amazon RDS database across multiple AWS accounts. They want minimal latency and no data replication. Which is the BEST approach?
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Start SAP-C02 Quiz - Question 5Design for New Solutions
A company needs to manage secrets (API keys, database passwords) for applications running on EC2, ECS, and Lambda. Secrets must be automatically rotated. Which service is BEST suited?
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Start SAP-C02 Quiz - Question 6Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
A company's application has availability issues caused by frequent database connection pool exhaustion during traffic spikes. The backend uses RDS PostgreSQL. What is the MOST effective solution?
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Start SAP-C02 Quiz - Question 7Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
A company wants to reduce their RDS costs. Analysis shows the database is idle 16 hours per day (nights and weekends). What is the MOST effective cost-reduction strategy?
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Start SAP-C02 Quiz - Question 8Design for New Solutions
A company needs to implement a data catalog that tracks all data assets across S3, RDS, Redshift, and Glue. Business users should be able to discover data lineage and metadata. Which service provides this?
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Start SAP-C02 Quiz - Question 9Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
A company's RDS Aurora cluster write performance degrades when running analytical queries simultaneously with OLTP workloads. What is the CORRECT solution?
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Start SAP-C02 Quiz - Question 10Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
A company completed migrating their application to AWS. Now they want to modernize the database from PostgreSQL on RDS to a purpose-built database for their use case (key-value lookups at high scale). What is the recommended approach?
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Start SAP-C02 Quiz - Question 11Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
A company wants to reduce infrastructure management overhead after migrating to AWS. Currently managing EC2, RDS, and ElastiCache. What modernization strategy reduces operational overhead most?
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Key Databases Concepts for SAP-C02
SAP-C02 Databases Exam Tips
AWS Database Architecture questions in SAP-C02 are typically scenario-based. Focus on enterprise-scale multi-account architecture, governance, and modernization strategies. Priority concepts: database, rds, aurora, dynamodb, elasticache, redshift.
What SAP-C02 Expects
- Anchor your answer in prefer future-proof designs that support organizational complexity and migration realities.
- Databases scenarios for SAP-C02 are frequently mapped to Domain 2 (29%), Domain 3 (25%), Domain 4 (20%), so read the objective carefully before picking controls or architecture.
- Expect multi-topic scenarios where Databases interacts with IAM, networking, storage, or observability patterns rather than appearing as an isolated question.
- When two options are both technically valid, prefer the choice that best aligns with the exam's operational scope (Professional) and vendor best practices.
High-Value Databases Concepts
- Know the core Databases building blocks cold: database, rds, aurora, dynamodb.
- Review the edge-case features and limits for elasticache, redshift; these details are commonly used to differentiate answer choices.
- Practice service-integration reasoning: how Databases pairs with DynamoDB, RDS & Aurora, DMS in real deployment patterns.
- For SAP-C02, explain why the chosen Databases design meets reliability, security, and cost expectations better than the alternatives.
Common SAP-C02 Traps
- Watch for answers that work for a single account but fail at organizational scale.
- Questions in Design for New Solutions often include distractors that look correct for Databases but violate least-privilege, durability, or availability requirements.
- Avoid picking options purely by feature name; validate data path, failure handling, and governance impact before answering.
- If the prompt hints at automation or repeatability, eliminate manual-only operational answers first.
Fast Review Checklist
- Can you compare at least two Databases implementation paths and justify which one best fits the scenario?
- Can you map the chosen answer back to Design for New Solutions (29%) outcomes for SAP-C02?
- Can you explain security and access boundaries for Databases without relying on default-open assumptions?
- Can you describe how Databases integrates with DynamoDB and RDS & Aurora during failure, scaling, and monitoring events?