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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
5
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

Converting and migrating a database to AWS

Now that we've learned the theory behind how SCT and DMS work to assess, convert, and migrate a database, let's practice our knowledge in a hands-on lab. In this lab, we are going to create an RDS Microsoft SQL Server database as our source and convert and migrate it to an RDS MySQL database.

AWS Account Costs

RDS SQL Server and DMS are chargeable by AWS and are not covered by the free tier. This lab aims to let you learn about these tools, which are major areas within the DB Specialty exam, while keeping costs as low as possible.

Setting up

Before we can start any conversion and migration, we need a source and target database. To give us a schema to work with, we will use the Microsoft SQL Server Northwinds sample data, which is available here: https://github.com/microsoft/sql-server-samples/blob/master/samples/databases/northwind-pubs/instnwnd.sql.

First, we will create an RDS SQL Server database and restore the...