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Amazon Exam PAS-C01 Topic 4 Question 45 Discussion

Actual exam question for Amazon's PAS-C01 exam
Question #: 45
Topic #: 4
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A company is running SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) with a Microsoft SQL Server database on AWS A solutions architect must attach an additional 1 TB Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. The company needs to write the SQL Server database backups to this EBS volume before moving the database backups to Amazon S3 for long-term storage.

Which EBS volume type will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

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Suggested Answer: A

'For SQL Server database backup, you can use one of the following methods: SQL native tools to take backup on disk: Backup requires high throughput compared to IOPS. We recommend using Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) which provides maximum throughput of 500 MB/s per volume.'


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Alfreda
17 days ago
I think the correct answer is C) General Purpose SSD (gp3). It's a good balance between performance and cost for storing database backups.
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Yaeko
30 days ago
That's a good point, but I still think Provisioned IOPS SSD (io3) would provide better performance overall.
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Ernie
1 months ago
I disagree, I believe Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) would be more cost-effective for writing backups before moving them to Amazon S3.
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Yaeko
1 months ago
I think the best option would be Provisioned IOPS SSD (io3) because it offers high performance for database backups.
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