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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
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Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned about Trusted Advisor and used it to help identify security configuration problems, wrongly sized RDS instances, and RDS servers that need to be patched. We then looked at some best practices for troubleshooting RDS, DynamoDB, and other AWS-managed databases, including how to use the database logs, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Health Dashboard to identify problems. Finally, we looked at how you can resolve some common problems and error messages from AWS-managed databases.

The AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam will have many questions about troubleshooting errors with connectivity, storage issues, performance bottlenecks, and excessive costs, so being able to understand best-practice methods to diagnose and resolve them will greatly improve your chances of success in the exam.

In the next chapter, we will be completing a practice exam so that you can learn the style of the AWS exam questions. You will also be able to note...