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Architecting on AWS VIP Certification Exam
Architecting on AWS Certification — This exam mirrors the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03), issued by Amazon Web Services, consisting of 65 questions across four domains: Design Secure Architectures (30%), Design Resilient Architectures (26%), Design High-Performing Architectures (24%), and Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (20%), with a scaled passing score of 720/1000.
30
Questions
130m
Time Limit
72.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 30👑 VIP
A company operates a multi-tier web application on AWS. The application tier runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The database tier uses Amazon RDS for MySQL with a Multi-AZ deployment. During a recent load test, architects noticed that the RDS read replica was not being used at all despite being provisioned. What is the MOST likely reason for this, and what change should the architects make?
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