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DBS-C01 · Question #36

A large financial services company requires that all data be encrypted in transit. A Developer is attempting to connect to an Amazon RDS DB instance using the company VPC for the first time with crede

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Submitted by thandi_sa· Mar 6, 2026Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Question

A large financial services company requires that all data be encrypted in transit. A Developer is attempting to connect to an Amazon RDS DB instance using the company VPC for the first time with credentials provided by a Database Specialist. Other members of the Development team can connect, but this user is consistently receiving an error indicating a communications link failure. The Developer asked the Database Specialist to reset the password a number of times, but the error persists. Which step should be taken to troubleshoot this issue?

Options

  • AEnsure that the database option group for the RDS DB instance allows ingress from the
  • BEnsure that the RDS DB instance's subnet group includes a public subnet to allow the Developer
  • CEnsure that the RDS DB instance has not reached its maximum connections limit
  • DEnsure that the connection is using SSL and is addressing the port where the RDS DB instance is

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#RDS Connection#SSL/TLS#Troubleshooting#Data Encryption in Transit
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