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SAP-C02 · Question #161

A financial services company loaded millions of historical stock trades into an Amazon DynamoDB table. The table uses on-demand capacity mode. Once each day at midnight, a few million new records…

The correct answer is D. Deploy DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX). Use provisioned capacity mode. Configure DynamoDB. DAX + provisioned capacity + auto scaling --savings plans are for EC2 and do not contribute to DynamoDB https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/HowItWorks.ReadWriteC apacityMode.html#HowItWorks.ProvisionedThroughput.Manual

Submitted by emma.c· Mar 6, 2026Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

Question

A financial services company loaded millions of historical stock trades into an Amazon DynamoDB table. The table uses on-demand capacity mode. Once each day at midnight, a few million new records are loaded into the table. Application read activity against the table happens in bursts throughout the day, and a limited set of keys are repeatedly looked up. The company needs to reduce costs associated with DynamoDB. Which strategy should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

Options

  • ADeploy an Amazon ElastiCache cluster in front of the DynamoDB table.
  • BDeploy DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX). Configure DynamoDB auto scaling. Purchase Savings
  • CUse provisioned capacity mode. Purchase Savings Plans in Cost Explorer.
  • DDeploy DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX). Use provisioned capacity mode. Configure DynamoDB

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  • A
    9% (3)
  • B
    6% (2)
  • C
    24% (8)
  • D
    61% (20)

Explanation

DAX + provisioned capacity + auto scaling --savings plans are for EC2 and do not contribute to DynamoDB https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/HowItWorks.ReadWriteC apacityMode.html#HowItWorks.ProvisionedThroughput.Manual

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