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SOA-C03 · Question #129

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application stores and retrieves data from an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database. A developer accidentally drops a table from the database…

The correct answer is C. Perform a point-in-time recovery and create a new database to restore the database to a. Aurora Backtrack is not supported for Aurora PostgreSQL, so option A is not valid here. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) for Aurora always restores to a new cluster, not in place. You choose a time (e.g., just before the table was dropped, 2 hours ago), Aurora creates a new…

Submitted by katya_ua· Mar 5, 2026Reliability and business continuity

Question

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application stores and retrieves data from an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database. A developer accidentally drops a table from the database, which causes application errors. Two hours later, a CloudOps engineer needs to recover the data and make the application function again. Which solution will meet this requirement?

Options

  • AUse the Aurora Backtrack feature to rewind the database to a specified time, 2 hours in the past.
  • BPerform a point-in-time recovery on the existing database to restore the database to a specified
  • CPerform a point-in-time recovery and create a new database to restore the database to a
  • DCreate a new Aurora cluster. Choose the Restore data from S3 bucket option. Choose log files up

How the community answered

(38 responses)
  • A
    13% (5)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    76% (29)
  • D
    5% (2)

Explanation

Aurora Backtrack is not supported for Aurora PostgreSQL, so option A is not valid here. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) for Aurora always restores to a new cluster, not in place. You choose a time (e.g., just before the table was dropped, 2 hours ago), Aurora creates a new cluster at that state, and you then: - Either point the application to the new cluster endpoint, or - Copy the recovered table/data back to the original cluster.

Topics

#Aurora point-in-time recovery#database restore#accidental deletion#PostgreSQL

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