RDS Performance Quiz

Quiz covering Performance Optimization

Questions in this quiz

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1. 1

   Which AWS RDS feature is most effective for offloading read-heavy database workloads from the primary database instance?

2. 2

   You notice your RDS instance is experiencing high CPU utilization. Which tool would best help you identify specific long-running or resource-intensive SQL queries?

3. 3

   An RDS database is performing slowly due to high disk I/O latency. Which action is the most direct way to improve I/O performance without changing the database engine?

4. 4

   Your application uses many short-lived connections to the RDS database, leading to high overhead on the database for connection management. What is the recommended solution to optimize this?

5. 5

   A database instance shows high 'Freeable Memory' but high 'Swap Usage'. What does this indicate and how should you address it?