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DBS-C01 · Question #255

A pharmaceutical company's drug search API is using an Amazon Neptune DB cluster. A bulk uploader process automatically updates the information in the database a few times each week. A few weeks ago d

The correct answer is A. Create a read replica that uses a larger instance size than the primary DB instance. Fail over the. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/neptune/latest/userguide/neptune-gdb-disaster- recovery.html#neptune-gdb-managed-failover

Submitted by kev92· Mar 6, 2026Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Question

A pharmaceutical company's drug search API is using an Amazon Neptune DB cluster. A bulk uploader process automatically updates the information in the database a few times each week. A few weeks ago during a bulk upload, a database specialist noticed that the database started to respond frequently with a ThrottlingException error. The problem also occurred with subsequent uploads. The database specialist must create a solution to prevent ThrottlingException errors for the database. The solution must minimize the downtime of the cluster. Which solution meets these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate a read replica that uses a larger instance size than the primary DB instance. Fail over the
  • BAdd a read replica to each Availability Zone. Use an instance for the read replica that is the same
  • CCreate a read replica that uses a larger instance size than the primary DB instance. Offload the
  • DTake the latest backup, and restore it in a DB cluster of a larger size. Point the application to the

How the community answered

(32 responses)
  • A
    47% (15)
  • B
    13% (4)
  • C
    9% (3)
  • D
    31% (10)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/neptune/latest/userguide/neptune-gdb-disaster- recovery.html#neptune-gdb-managed-failover

Topics

#Amazon Neptune#throttling#performance optimization#read replicas

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