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SOA-C02 · Question #486

A company hosts a production MySQL database on an Amazon Aurora single-node DB cluster. The database is queried heavily for reporting purposes. The DB cluster is experiencing periods of performance…

The correct answer is A. Create an Aurora Replica node. Create an Auto Scaling policy to scale replicas based on CPU. Creating an Aurora Replica node will offload the reporting workload from the primary DB instance, reducing the CPU utilization and improving stability. By creating an Auto Scaling policy to scale replicas based on CPU utilization, you can automatically add or remove replicas as…

Submitted by fatima_kr· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity

Question

A company hosts a production MySQL database on an Amazon Aurora single-node DB cluster. The database is queried heavily for reporting purposes. The DB cluster is experiencing periods of performance degradation because of high CPU utilization and maximum connections errors. A SysOps administrator needs to improve the stability of the database. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate an Aurora Replica node. Create an Auto Scaling policy to scale replicas based on CPU
  • BCreate a second Aurora MySQL single-node DB cluster in a second Availability Zone. Ensure that
  • CCreate an AWS Lambda function that caches reporting requests. Ensure that all reporting
  • DCreate a multi-node Amazon ElastiCache cluster. Ensure that all reporting requests use the

How the community answered

(56 responses)
  • A
    79% (44)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    5% (3)
  • D
    13% (7)

Explanation

Creating an Aurora Replica node will offload the reporting workload from the primary DB instance, reducing the CPU utilization and improving stability. By creating an Auto Scaling policy to scale replicas based on CPU utilization, you can automatically add or remove replicas as needed to handle the reporting workload. Ensuring that all reporting requests use the read-only connection string directs the reporting workload to the replica nodes, further reducing the load on the primary DB instance.

Topics

#Aurora Replica#read scaling#Auto Scaling replicas#CPU utilization

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