AWS Certified Database – Specialty — Question 282

A company has a variety of Amazon Aurora DB clusters. Each of these DB clusters has various configurations that meet specific sets of requirements. Depending on the team and the use case, these configurations can be organized into broader categories. A database specialist wants to implement a solution to make the storage and modification of the configuration parameters more systematic.

Which AWS service or feature should the database specialist use to meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
• B. DB parameter group
• C. AWS Config with the Amazon RDS managed rules
• D. AWS Secrets Manager

Correct answer: B

Explanation

DB parameter groups act as containers for engine configuration values that can be applied to one or more Amazon Aurora DB clusters, allowing systematic management of database configurations. While AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and AWS Secrets Manager are used for general application configuration and secrets, they do not directly manage database engine parameters. AWS Config is used for compliance auditing and resource tracking rather than applying and storing database-specific configuration settings.