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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)
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Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
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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

Chapter 11: Database Task Automation

Automation is the practice of creating scripts, code, or programs to allow operational and development activities to be carried out automatically with minimal user involvement. Automation can be as simple as creating a script you can schedule to run at fixed time intervals to inspect a database, or it can be an entire package that deploys and configures an entire application stack within AWS. There is an IT field called Development Operations (DevOps) that specializes in using automation techniques to reduce failure, improve deployment speed and accuracy, and create systems that can fix themselves if something goes wrong. For the Database Specialty exam, we won't need to know advanced DevOps skills and tools, but questions on automation techniques that are specific to databases will be asked, so it's important to understand AWS automation techniques at a high level. By the end of this chapter you will be confidently able to use CloudFormation...