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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

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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)
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Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
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Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview
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Part 2: Workload-Specific Database Design
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Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security
16
Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization
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Part 5: Assessment
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Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to use AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS Database Migration Service to migrate databases to AWS. We learned how to use SCT to assess whether a database needs to be converted into a different database engine, as well as how to assess it for migration to RDS. After that, we learned how to use DMS to migrate the data to our target database using full load and CDC tasks.

We also learned about AWS Snowball and how it works with the SCT data extraction agent. This allows you to migrate large or complex databases using a storage device to reduce network bandwidth and speed up a migration.

SCT, DMS, and migration strategies are major topics within the DB Specialty exam, so covering these tools and techniques in depth will have greatly enhanced your skills going into the exam.

In the next chapter, we are going to learn how to use automation techniques, including two data handling and querying tools that are offered by AWS: AWS Athena and AWS...