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DBS-C01 · Question #282

An online bookstore recently migrated its database from on-premises Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 13. The bookstore uses scheduled jobs to run customized SQL scripts to administer the Oracle…

The correct answer is D. Turn on the pg_cron extension in the Aurora PostgreSOL database and schedule the database. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/PostgreSQL_pg_cron.html

Submitted by saadiq_pk· Mar 6, 2026Management and Operations

Question

An online bookstore recently migrated its database from on-premises Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 13. The bookstore uses scheduled jobs to run customized SQL scripts to administer the Oracle database, running hours-long maintenance tasks, such as partition maintenance and statistics gathering. The bookstore's application team has reached out to a database specialist seeking an ideal replacement for scheduling jobs with Aurora PostgreSQL. What should the database specialist implement to meet these requirements with MINIMAL operational overhead?

Options

  • AConfigure an Amazon EC2 instance to run on a schedule to initiate database maintenance jobs
  • BConfigure AWS Batch with AWS Step Functions to schedule long-running database maintenance
  • CCreate an Amazon EventBridae (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule with AWS Lambda that runs
  • DTurn on the pg_cron extension in the Aurora PostgreSOL database and schedule the database

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  • A
    8% (2)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    84% (21)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/PostgreSQL_pg_cron.html

Topics

#Aurora PostgreSQL#pg_cron#scheduled jobs#maintenance tasks

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