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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

Review

Let's now practice a few exam-style questions:

  1. End users of an application are complaining that they are experiencing intermittent performance issues with RDS for MySQL. After investigation, a database specialist determines that the performance issues occur during the automated backup window. What actions can the specialist perform to improve backup performance? (Select two.)
    1. Schedule an automated backup window to occur outside of peak hours.
    2. Increase the instance class.
    3. Create backups from a read replica.
    4. Increase the number of shards.
    5. Increase the storage on the RDS instance.
    6. Change the storage to provisioned Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS).
  2. Your company has a policy that requires all RDS backups to occur automatically on a specified schedule and be stored for 90 days. What is the optimal solution to meet this requirement?
    1. Create an AWS Backup policy for all RDS databases to include automated backups on RDS. Configure the data retention period to 90 days...