Amazon DBS-C01 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

  • Exam Code/Number: DBS-C01
  • Exam Name/Title: AWS Certified Database - Specialty (DBS-C01) Exam
  • Certification Provider: Amazon
  • Corresponding Certification: AWS Certified Database
  • Exam Questions: 325
  • Updated On: May 30, 2026
On AWS, a business is developing a web application. The application needs that the database supports concurrent read and write activities in several AWS Regions. Additionally, the database must communicate data changes across Regions as they occur. The application must be highly available and have a latency of less than a few hundred milliseconds.
Which solution satisfies these criteria?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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A database specialist is responsible for an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance with one read replica. The DB instance and the read replica are assigned to the default parameter group. The database team currently runs test queries against a read replica. The database team wants to create additional tables in the read replica that will only be accessible from the read replica to benefit the tests.
Which should the database specialist do to allow the database team to create the test tables?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A financial services company runs an on-premises MySQL database for a critical application. The company is dissatisfied with its current database disaster recovery (DR) solution. The application experiences a significant amount of downtime whenever the database fails over to its DR facility. The application also experiences slower response times when reports are processed on the same database. To minimize the downtime in DR situations, the company has decided to migrate the database to AWS. The company requires a solution that is highly available and the most cost-effective.
Which solution meets these requirements?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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A company hosts an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise edition database with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) enabled. The database is 20 TB in size and includes sparse tables. The company needs to migrate the database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server during a maintenance window that is scheduled for an upcoming weekend. Data-at-rest encryption must be enabled for the target DB instance.
Which combination of steps should the company take to migrate the database to AWS in the MOST operationally efficient manner? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: B,E Vote an answer
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A company uses an Amazon Redshift cluster to run its analytical workloads. Corporate policy requires that the company's data be encrypted at rest with customer managed keys. The company's disaster recovery plan requires that backups of the cluster be copied into another AWS Region on a regular basis.
How should a database specialist automate the process of backing up the cluster data in compliance with these policies?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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A Database Specialist needs to define a database migration strategy to migrate an on-premises Oracle database to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. The company requires near-zero downtime for the data migration.
The solution must also be cost-effective.
Which approach should the Database Specialist take?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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A gaming company is designing a mobile gaming app that will be accessed by many users across the globe.
The company wants to have replication and full support for multi-master writes. The company also wants to ensure low latency and consistent performance for app users.
Which solution meets these requirements?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
A finance company migrated its on-premises PostgreSQL database to an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster. During a review after the migration, a database specialist discovers that the database is not encrypted at rest. The database must be encrypted at rest as soon as possible to meet security requirements. The database specialist must enable encryption for the DB cluster with minimal downtime.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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A company uses Amazon Aurora MySQL as the primary database engine for many of its applications. A database specialist must create a dashboard to provide the company with information about user connections to databases. According to compliance requirements, the company must retain all connection logs for at least 7 years.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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An online gaming company is using an Amazon DynamoDB table in on-demand mode to store game scores.
After an intensive advertisement campaign in South
America, the average number of concurrent users rapidly increases from 100,000 to 500,000 in less than 10 minutes every day around 5 PM.
The on-call software reliability engineer has observed that the application logs contain a high number of DynamoDB throttling exceptions caused by game score insertions around 5 PM. Customer service has also reported that several users are complaining about their scores not being registered.
How should the database administrator remediate this issue at the lowest cost?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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