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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
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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about the format the exam will take, including how many questions there will be and how long you have to answer them. We've also looked at how the exam is graded and what you need to do to earn a pass grade.

You should now know all the different topics that will be covered in the exam, which will be used to help guide your learning through this book.

And finally, we took some time to go over exam tips and techniques to help you maximize your success when you take the exam.

This information is critical for the exam, both in terms of knowing what areas to study, and knowing how best to tackle the exam. When you are unsure of an answer, the exam tips given in this chapter will be very valuable in helping you work out the most likely options.

The next chapter will start looking at the AWS infrastructure in which you will incorporate and develop databases, and the exam will include questions that will expect you to know the fundamentals of AWS beyond databases.