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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
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

Overview of SCT

AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) is a downloadable program that's designed to help you change from one database engine to another. For example, you can use it to help convert database objects and database code from Oracle into PostgreSQL. It can also be used to carry out a migration assessment to both calculate the effort involved in converting the database engine and also to check for any features that are being used that are incompatible with RDS versions of the database. As we learned in Chapter 4, Relational Database Service, RDS does not support all the features of every database engine. SCT is available on Windows, Ubuntu Linux, and Fedora Linux.

SCT can carry out assessments and convert from the following database types:

  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • Apache Cassandra
  • Azure SQL Database
  • IBM Db2
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • SAP/Sybase ASE

SCT can carry out assessments and convert from the following Data Warehouse types:

  • Amazon...