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DBS-C01 · Question #210
A company is using Amazon Aurora MySQL as the database for its retail application on AWS. The company receives a notification of a pending database upgrade and wants to ensure upgrades do not occur be
The correct answer is C. Choose to defer the upgrade and then find an appropriate down time for patching.. Defer upgrade if solution. Clone will be overkill for this use case.
Submitted by deeparc· Mar 6, 2026Management and Operations
Question
A company is using Amazon Aurora MySQL as the database for its retail application on AWS. The company receives a notification of a pending database upgrade and wants to ensure upgrades do not occur before or during the most critical time of year. Company leadership is concerned that an Amazon RDS maintenance window will cause an outage during data ingestion. Which step can be taken to ensure that the application is not interrupted?
Options
- ADisable weekly maintenance on the DB cluster.
- BClone the DB cluster and migrate it to a new copy of the database.
- CChoose to defer the upgrade and then find an appropriate down time for patching.
- DSet up an Aurora Replica and promote it to primary at the time of patching.
How the community answered
(45 responses)- A4% (2)
- B2% (1)
- C93% (42)
Explanation
Defer upgrade if solution. Clone will be overkill for this use case.
Topics
#Aurora MySQL#Database upgrades#Maintenance windows#Downtime management
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