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SOA-C02 · Question #537

A company is running Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ DB clusters. The company uses an AWS CloudFormation template to create the databases individually with a default size of 100 GB. The company…

The correct answer is C. Modify the Cloud Formation template to activate storage auto scaling on the existing DB. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_PIOPS.StorageTypes.html

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

Question

A company is running Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ DB clusters. The company uses an AWS CloudFormation template to create the databases individually with a default size of 100 GB. The company creates the databases every Monday and deletes the databases every Friday. Occasionally, the databases run low on disk space and initiate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm. A SysOps administrator must prevent the databases from running low on disk space in the future. Which solution will meet these requirements with the FEWEST changes to the application?

Options

  • AModify the CloudFormation template to use Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL as the DB engine.
  • BModify the CloudFormation template to use Amazon DynamoDB as the database. Activate
  • CModify the Cloud Formation template to activate storage auto scaling on the existing DB
  • DCreate a CloudWatch alarm to monitor DB instance storage space. Configure the alarm to invoke

How the community answered

(35 responses)
  • A
    14% (5)
  • B
    6% (2)
  • C
    74% (26)
  • D
    6% (2)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_PIOPS.StorageTypes.html

Topics

#RDS storage auto scaling#CloudFormation#PostgreSQL#disk space management

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