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SAA-C03 · Question #304

A company has an ordering application that stores customer information in Amazon RDS for MySQL. During regular business hours, employees run one-time queries for reporting purposes. Timeouts are occur

The correct answer is A. Create a read replica. Move reporting queries to the read replica.. Amazon RDS for MySQL supports the creation of read replicas, which are read-only copies of the primary database instance. By offloading read-heavy operations, such as reporting queries, to a Performance Improvement: The primary DB instance is relieved from the additional load, re

Submitted by rohit_dlh· Mar 4, 2026Design High-Performing Architectures

Question

A company has an ordering application that stores customer information in Amazon RDS for MySQL. During regular business hours, employees run one-time queries for reporting purposes. Timeouts are occurring during order processing because the reporting queries are taking a long time to run. The company needs to eliminate the timeouts without preventing employees from performing queries. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate a read replica. Move reporting queries to the read replica.
  • BCreate a read replica. Distribute the ordering application to the primary DB instance and the read
  • CMigrate the ordering application to Amazon DynamoDB with on-demand capacity.
  • DSchedule the reporting queries for non-peak hours.

How the community answered

(38 responses)
  • A
    79% (30)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    13% (5)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports the creation of read replicas, which are read-only copies of the primary database instance. By offloading read-heavy operations, such as reporting queries, to a Performance Improvement: The primary DB instance is relieved from the additional load, reducing the likelihood of timeouts during order processing. Data Consistency: Read replicas use asynchronous replication, ensuring that they have up-to- date data for accurate reporting. Scalability: Multiple read replicas can be created to handle increased read traffic. This approach allows employees to continue running necessary reports without impacting the performance of the ordering application.

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