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Practice AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)AWS SAA-C03 Practice Exam 2Question 44

Medium1 markMultiple Choice

Domain 3.1: Storage PerformanceDomain 3PerformanceEBS

AWS SAA-C03 · Question 44 · Domain 3.1: Storage Performance

A database administrator is provisioning storage for a high-performance relational database on Amazon EC2. The database requires sustained performance of 64,000 IOPS. Which TWO Amazon EBS volume types can meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)

Answer options:

A.

General Purpose SSD (gp2)

B.

General Purpose SSD (gp3)

C.

Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)

D.

Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2 Block Express)

E.

Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)

How to approach this question

Identify the EBS volume types designed for high IOPS.

Full Answer

Only Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes (io1 and io2) can support 64,000 IOPS. General Purpose SSDs (gp2/gp3) are limited to 16,000 IOPS.

Common mistakes

Thinking gp3 can scale to 64,000 IOPS.

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