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SAP-C02 · Question #136

A company operates quick-service restaurants. The restaurants follow a predictable model with high sales traffic for 4 hours daily. Sales traffic is lower outside of those peak hours. - The point of…

The correct answer is C. Enable Dyn mo DB auto scalling for the table. As you can see, there are compelling reasons to use DynamoDB auto scaling with actively changing traffic. Auto scaling responds quickly and simplifies capacity management, which lowers costs by scaling your table's provisioned capacity and reducing operational overhead…

Submitted by ashley.k· Mar 6, 2026Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

Question

A company operates quick-service restaurants. The restaurants follow a predictable model with high sales traffic for 4 hours daily. Sales traffic is lower outside of those peak hours.

  • The point of sale and management platform is deployed in the AWS

Cloud and has a backend that is based on Amazon DynamoDB.

  • The database table uses provisioned throughput mode with 100,000 RCUs

and 80,000 WCUs to match known peak resource consumption.

  • The company wants to reduce Its DynamoDB cost and minimize the

operational overhead for the IT staff. Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options

  • AReduce the provisioned RCUs and WCUs
  • BChange the DynamoOB table to use on-demand capacity
  • CEnable Dyn mo DB auto scalling for the table
  • DPurchase 1-year reserved capacity that is sufficient to cover the peak load for 4 hours each day,

How the community answered

(17 responses)
  • A
    6% (1)
  • B
    6% (1)
  • C
    71% (12)
  • D
    18% (3)

Explanation

As you can see, there are compelling reasons to use DynamoDB auto scaling with actively changing traffic. Auto scaling responds quickly and simplifies capacity management, which lowers costs by scaling your table's provisioned capacity and reducing operational overhead. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-dynamodb-auto-scaling-performance-and-cost- optimization-at-any-scale/

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