A Financial Company Has Allocated an Amazon RDS MariaDB DB

question 24

Multiple Choice

A financial company has allocated an Amazon RDS MariaDB DB instance with large storage capacity to accommodate migration efforts. Post-migration, the company purged unwanted data from the instance. The company now want to downsize storage to save money. The solution must have the least impact on production and near-zero downtime. Which solution would meet these requirements?

• A) Create a snapshot of the old databases and restore the snapshot with the required storage
• B) Create a new RDS DB instance with the required storage and move the databases from the old instances to the new instance using AWS DMS
• C) Create a new database using native backup and restore
• D) Create a new read replica and make it the primary by terminating the existing primary

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Definitions:

Operating Expenses

The costs associated with a company's main operational activities, excluding the cost of goods sold, interest, and taxes.

Income from Operations

The earnings generated from a company's core business operations, excluding any income from investments or other non-operational sources.

Net Sales

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