AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 816

A company wants to build a map of its IT infrastructure to identify and enforce policies on resources that pose security risks. The company's security team must be able to query data in the IT infrastructure map and quickly identify security risks.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Answer options

• A. Use Amazon RDS to store the data. Use SQL to query the data to identify security risks.
• B. Use Amazon Neptune to store the data. Use SPARQL to query the data to identify security risks.
• C. Use Amazon Redshift to store the data. Use SQL to query the data to identify security risks.
• D. Use Amazon DynamoDB to store the data. Use PartiQL to query the data to identify security risks.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Amazon Neptune is a fully managed graph database service optimized for storing and querying highly connected datasets, such as an IT infrastructure map. Graph databases are ideal for representing relationships between resources and querying them efficiently using graph query languages like SPARQL. Other database types like Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DynamoDB are not optimized for traversing complex, highly connected graph relationships, which would result in higher operational complexity and overhead.