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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

By : Kate Gawron
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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

5 (1)
By: Kate Gawron

Overview of this book

The AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification is one of the most challenging AWS certifications. It validates your comprehensive understanding of databases, including the concepts of design, migration, deployment, access, maintenance, automation, monitoring, security, and troubleshooting. With this guide, you'll understand how to use various AWS databases, such as Aurora Serverless and Global Database, and even services such as Redshift and Neptune. You’ll start with an introduction to the AWS databases, and then delve into workload-specific database design. As you advance through the chapters, you'll learn about migrating and deploying the databases, along with database security techniques such as encryption, auditing, and access controls. This AWS book will also cover monitoring, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery techniques, before testing all the knowledge you've gained throughout the book with the help of mock tests. By the end of this book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the DBS-C01 AWS certification exam and have a handy, on-the-job desk reference guide.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
Free Chapter
2
Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview
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Part 2: Workload-Specific Database Design
12
Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security
16
Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization
20
Part 5: Assessment
21
Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Assessing a database using SCT

SCT allows you to assess various source databases to check how much effort it takes to convert to either an open source target database that AWS supports in RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, or Amazon Redshift, or to assess a migration from an on-premises Oracle database to RDS Oracle, or from an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server to RDS Microsoft SQL Server.

To run the assessment, you must download the SCT program for your operating system from AWS and install it. Then, you must provide the connection and login details for the source database. SCT will show you a list of all the schemas/users it finds and you can choose the ones to assess, which lets you filter out unused or old schemas.

Once the report is complete, it will show the following information:

  • A summary of the source database
  • The license evaluation of the source database, including an assessment of whether you can change to a standard edition license from an enterprise edition one
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