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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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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
20
Part 5: Assessment
21
Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Chapter 3: Understanding AWS Infrastructure

After learning about the different types of database engines you need to know for the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam, it's time to start learning AWS specifics, starting with AWS infrastructure. It's important you know the basics of how AWS works, and the key components involved as they do come up in the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam both as direct questions specifically about how to configure the cloud infrastructure ready to host a database, and also indirectly in terms of troubleshooting or access issues, which can be infrastructure-related.

Infrastructure refers to underlying services that support your database. Even the simplest of database deployments require servers, networking, firewalls, security controls, and storage. In this chapter, we are going to explore how AWS implements these components and how you can configure and build your own. We will have a mixture of theory, explaining...