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DBS-C01 · Question #132

DBS-C01 Question #132: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is A: Create a snapshot of the source DB instance in the source account.. Sharing an unencrypted manual DB snapshot enables authorized AWS accounts to directly restore a DB instance from the snapshot instead of taking a copy of it and restoring from that. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ShareSnapshot.html However Resource Ac

Submitted by stefanr· Mar 6, 2026Deployment and Migration

Question

A company recently acquired a new business. A database specialist must migrate an unencrypted 12 TB Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance to a new AWS account. The database specialist needs to minimize the amount of time required to migrate the database. Which solution meets these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate a snapshot of the source DB instance in the source account.
  • BUse AWS Resource Access Manager to share the source DB instance with the destination
  • CCreate a read replica of the DB instance.
  • DUse mysqldump to back up the source database.

Explanation

Sharing an unencrypted manual DB snapshot enables authorized AWS accounts to directly restore a DB instance from the snapshot instead of taking a copy of it and restoring from that. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ShareSnapshot.html However Resource Access Manager could not share non-Aurora cluster. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/shareable.html

Topics

#RDS migration#Cross-account migration#MySQL#Large database migration

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