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Let's now practice a few exam-style questions:

1. You are a database consultant for a small local company. The company needs to monitor the read and write Input/output Operations Per Second (IOPS) metrics for their AWS MySQL RDS instance and send real-time alerts to their database team. Which AWS services can accomplish this as simply and at as low cost as possible? Choose two answers:
   1. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
   2. Amazon CloudWatch
   3. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
   4. Amazon SNS
   5. AWS Lambda
2. You are a database administrator for an online shopping company. Over the weekend, their critical production database went down due to a larger than expected number of orders. What type of alarms could you create to get a warning of abnormal database load?
   1. Create a CloudWatch alarm based on a static metric, such as database connections or CPU.
   2. Use Performance Insights to observe database load statistics in real time.
   3. Create a custom AWS Lambda function to run a script against the...