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DBS-C01 · Question #188

DBS-C01 Question #188: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is C: Export the cluster data into a new Neptune DB cluster.. The only way to shrink the storage space used by your DB cluster when you have a large amount of unused allocated space is to export all the data in your graph and then reload it into a new DB cluster. Creating and restoring a snapshot does not reduce the amount of storage alloca

Submitted by jakub_pl· Mar 6, 2026Management and Operations

Question

A company is using Amazon Neptune as the graph database for one of its products. The company's data science team accidentally created large amounts of temporary information during an ETL process. The Neptune DB cluster automatically increased the storage space to accommodate the new data, but the data science team deleted the unused information. What should a database specialist do to avoid unnecessary charges for the unused cluster volume space?

Options

  • ATake a snapshot of the cluster volume. Restore the snapshot in another cluster with a smaller
  • BUse the AWS CLI to turn on automatic resizing of the cluster volume.
  • CExport the cluster data into a new Neptune DB cluster.
  • DAdd a Neptune read replica to the cluster. Promote this replica as a new primary DB instance.

Explanation

The only way to shrink the storage space used by your DB cluster when you have a large amount of unused allocated space is to export all the data in your graph and then reload it into a new DB cluster. Creating and restoring a snapshot does not reduce the amount of storage allocated for your DB cluster, because a snapshot retains the original image of the cluster's underlying

Topics

#Amazon Neptune#Storage optimization#Cost management#Data management

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