nerdexam
Amazon

DBS-C01 · Question #194

A financial company is hosting its web application on AWS. The application's database is hosted on Amazon RDS for MySQL with automated backups enabled. The application has caused a logical…

The correct answer is B. Use the point-in-time restore capability to restore the DB instance to the specified time. Change. When you perform a restore operation to a point in time or from a DB Snapshot, a new DB Instance is created with a new endpoint (the old DB Instance can be deleted if so desired). This is done to enable you to create multiple DB Instances from a specific DB Snapshot or point in…

Submitted by emma.c· Mar 6, 2026Management and Operations

Question

A financial company is hosting its web application on AWS. The application’s database is hosted on Amazon RDS for MySQL with automated backups enabled. The application has caused a logical corruption of the database, which is causing the application to become unresponsive. The specific time of the corruption has been identified, and it was within the backup retention period. How should a database specialist recover the database to the most recent point before corruption?

Options

  • AUse the point-in-time restore capability to restore the DB instance to the specified time. No
  • BUse the point-in-time restore capability to restore the DB instance to the specified time. Change
  • CRestore using the latest automated backup. Change the application connection string to the new,
  • DRestore using the appropriate automated backup. No changes to the application connection string

How the community answered

(41 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    90% (37)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    5% (2)

Explanation

When you perform a restore operation to a point in time or from a DB Snapshot, a new DB Instance is created with a new endpoint (the old DB Instance can be deleted if so desired). This is done to enable you to create multiple DB Instances from a specific DB Snapshot or point in time."

Topics

#RDS MySQL#Point-in-time recovery (PITR)#Automated backups#Database corruption

Community Discussion

No community discussion yet for this question.

Full DBS-C01 Practice