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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

Understanding AWS automation

AWS offers a wide range of automation tools that you can use to achieve different things. Some of the tools specialize in working with application functionality, while some are used with containers. Containers are self-contained modules in which an application can be deployed, along with all the dependencies needed to run it, such as a Java runtime environment. Containers are not covered within the Database Specialty exam, but there is a link about this in the Further reading section if you'd like to know more.

First, let's look at a tool we have used previously in this book – the AWS command-line interface (AWS CLI).

AWS command-line interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is a command-line tool you can download from AWS. It runs on Windows, macOS, and most Linux distributions. Once downloaded, installed, and configured, the AWS CLI allows you to interact with AWS services using text-based commands. The CLI is very powerful and can be...