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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
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

Chapter 2: Understanding Database Fundamentals

Before we start looking at specific AWS database technologies and services, it's important to understand the different types of databases that are available and what type of workloads you should consider putting into each database. We are doing this so that when we start learning about the various AWS services, you will understand how and why there are so many different types and options.

We will be studying how databases differ between running them on-premises and in the cloud in terms of access, administration, and maintenance. These topics will appear in the exam, so being able to define the differences is important.

If you already have a database background and are comfortable with the different database types and how they work, please feel free to skip this chapter and go straight to Chapter 3, Understanding AWS Infrastructure. But if you want to go ahead and learn about the differences, then stick around until the end...