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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
Free Chapter
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

Technical requirements

To complete this chapter, you will need an AWS account with root access. Everything we will do in this chapter will be unavailable in Free Tier, which means it will cost you a small amount to follow the hands-on sections. You will also require command-line interface (CLI) AWS access. The AWS guide at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html explains the necessary steps, but I will summarize them here:

  1. Create an AWS account if you have not already done so.
  2. Download the latest version of the AWS CLI from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/welcome-versions.html#welcome-versions-v2.
  3. Create an admin user by going to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access-keys.html.
  4. Create an access key for your administration user: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/getting-started_create-admin-group.html#getting-started_create-admin-group-cli.
  5. Run the aws configure...