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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
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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

Using Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool you can use to get real-time reports on all of your AWS services. Trusted Advisor will by default highlight the following areas:

  • Cost optimization—You will be given recommendations that can save you money. Typically, this will be downsizing an instance or changing a storage type if it isn't being used.
  • Performance—You will be advised on how to improve the performance of your applications or databases. For example, this may show when an RDS instance is running at a high central processing unit (CPU) or is suffering from high disk input/output (I/O).
  • Security—You will be able to see recommendations about security for your application and database, including security group configuration and patches that need to be applied.
  • Fault tolerance—Typically, Trusted Advisor will notify you if you are not using a Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) configuration for production workloads or if...