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SOA-C02 · Question #146
A company has an application that uses an Amazon RDS for MariaDB Multi-AZ database. The application becomes unavailable for several minutes every time the database experiences a failover during a plan
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Submitted by daniela_cl· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity
Question
A company has an application that uses an Amazon RDS for MariaDB Multi-AZ database. The application becomes unavailable for several minutes every time the database experiences a failover during a planned maintenance event. What should a SysOps administrator do to reduce the downtime of the application during failover?
Options
- ACreate an RDS for MariaDB DB cluster that has multiple writer instances. Configure the
- BConfigure the RDS maintenance window settings to pool connections while a failover is in
- CConfigure an Amazon ElastiCache write-through cache for the database. Configure the
- DCreate an RDS proxy that is associated with the database. Configure the application to connect to
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Topics
#RDS proxy#Multi-AZ failover#connection pooling#database availability