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DBS-C01 · Question #198

A company has an application that uses an Amazon DynamoDB table as its data store. During normal business days, the throughput requirements from the application are uniform and consist of 5 standard w

The correct answer is C. Use DynamoDB provisioned capacity with 10 WCUs and auto scaling.. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/HowItWorks.ReadWriteC apacityMode.html 5x2KB = 10 WCU + auto scaling needed as well for peak time.

Submitted by zhang_li· Mar 6, 2026Workload-Specific Database Design

Question

A company has an application that uses an Amazon DynamoDB table as its data store. During normal business days, the throughput requirements from the application are uniform and consist of 5 standard write calls per second to the DynamoDB table. Each write call has 2 KB of data. For 1 hour each day, the company runs an additional automated job on the DynamoDB table that makes 20 write requests per second. No other application writes to the DynamoDB table. The DynamoDB table does not have to meet any additional capacity requirements. How should a database specialist configure the DynamoDB table’s capacity to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options

  • AUse DynamoDB provisioned capacity with 5 WCUs and auto scaling.
  • BUse DynamoDB provisioned capacity with 5 WCUs and a write-through cache that DynamoDB
  • CUse DynamoDB provisioned capacity with 10 WCUs and auto scaling.
  • DUse DynamoDB provisioned capacity with 10 WCUs and no auto scaling.

How the community answered

(24 responses)
  • A
    8% (2)
  • B
    13% (3)
  • C
    75% (18)
  • D
    4% (1)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/HowItWorks.ReadWriteC apacityMode.html 5x2KB = 10 WCU + auto scaling needed as well for peak time.

Topics

#DynamoDB#Provisioned capacity#Write capacity units (WCU)#Auto scaling#Cost optimization

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