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DBS-C01 · Question #131

A company is developing a new web application. An AWS CloudFormation template was created as a part of the build process. Recently, a change was made to an AWS::RDS::DBInstance resource in the…

The correct answer is D. Deactivate any applications that are using the DB instance. To preserve your data, perform the following procedure: 1.Deactivate any applications that are using the DB instance so that there's no activity on the DB 2.Create a snapshot of the DB instance. For more information about creating DB snapshots 3.If you want to restore your…

Submitted by weili_xi· Mar 6, 2026Deployment and Migration

Question

A company is developing a new web application. An AWS CloudFormation template was created as a part of the build process. Recently, a change was made to an AWS::RDS::DBInstance resource in the template. The CharacterSetName property was changed to allow the application to process international text. A change set was generated using the new template, which indicated that the existing DB instance should be replaced during an upgrade. What should a database specialist do to prevent data loss during the stack upgrade?

Options

  • ACreate a snapshot of the DB instance. Modify the template to add the DBSnapshotIdentifier
  • BModify the stack policy using the aws cloudformation update-stack command and the set-stack-
  • CCreate a snapshot of the DB instance.
  • DDeactivate any applications that are using the DB instance.

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  • A
    12% (7)
  • B
    3% (2)
  • C
    7% (4)
  • D
    78% (46)

Explanation

To preserve your data, perform the following procedure: 1.Deactivate any applications that are using the DB instance so that there's no activity on the DB 2.Create a snapshot of the DB instance. For more information about creating DB snapshots 3.If you want to restore your instance using a DB snapshot, modify the updated template with your DB instance changes and add the DBSnapshotIdentifier property with the ID of the DB snapshot that you want to use 4.Update the stack. rds-database-instance.html

Topics

#CloudFormation RDS update#CharacterSetName#Data loss prevention#DB instance replacement

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