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DBS-C01 · Question #328

A company has an existing system that uses a single-instance Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) cluster. Read requests account for 75% of the system queries. Write requests are expected to

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Submitted by kwame.gh· Mar 6, 2026Workload-Specific Database Design

Question

A company has an existing system that uses a single-instance Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) cluster. Read requests account for 75% of the system queries. Write requests are expected to increase by 50% after an upcoming global release. A database specialist needs to design a solution that improves the overall database performance without creating additional application overhead. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • ARecreate the cluster with a shared cluster volume. Add two instances to serve both read requests
  • BAdd one read replica instance. Activate a shared cluster volume. Route all read queries to the
  • CAdd one read replica instance. Set the read preference to secondary preferred.
  • DAdd one read replica instance. Update the application to route all read queries to the read replica

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#DocumentDB read replicas#Read scaling#MongoDB read preference#Performance optimization
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