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

By : Kate Gawron
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Book Image

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

Chapter 3

  1. 4

An internet gateway is not used with a private IP, so this answer is incorrect.

Security groups have all outbound ports open by default, so there is no need to open port 80 specifically.

A private subnet can connect to the internet with the correct configuration.

A correctly configured route table is required for any internet connectivity, so answer 4 is correct.

  1. 3

A security group does not allow connections to other AWS services such as S3 and RDS by default, so this is incorrect.

Security groups block all inbound traffic by default, so this answer is incorrect.

Security groups do allow all outbound traffic by default, so 3 is the correct answer.

A route table is required for an internet gateway to be used, so this is incorrect.

  1. 1 and 4

Each subnet can only be deployed in a single AZ, so 1 is a correct answer.

The smallest CIDR block you can allow is /28, so this is incorrect.

Private subnets connect to...