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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

Review

To check your knowledge from this chapter, here are five questions that you should now be able to answer. Remember the exam techniques from Chapter 1, AWS Certified Database – Specialty Exam Overview, and remove the clearly incorrect answers first to help you:

  1. You have an application that has an Amazon Aurora MySQL backend database. The customer wants to grant access to a reporting tool. How can you modify the existing database to give access to the reporting tool, which must be highly available without impacting the performance of the online application in the most cost-efficient way?
    1. Create a cross-region Multi-AZ deployment and create a read replica in the second region.
    2. Move the instance to Amazon EC2 and create and manage snapshots manually.
    3. Create a Multi-AZ Aurora read replica of the Aurora DB instance.
    4. Create a Single-AZ Aurora read replica of the Aurora DB instance. Create a second Single-AZ Aurora read replica from the replica.
  2. You are managing a web...