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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 Amazon Aurora. We have learned how Aurora differs from RDS, what database types are supported, how to deploy both a provisioned and Serverless Aurora cluster, and how to carry out some common maintenance and configuration tasks. We learned how to use both the AWS console and awscli to interact with our databases. These skills will enable us to work with Amazon Aurora databases confidently, as well as describe the use cases and benefits of Aurora compared to RDS.

During the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam, your knowledge of Aurora will be tested heavily with questions around troubleshooting, service limits, Serverless and Global Database features, and migrating from RDS.

In the next chapter, we will be learning about AWS DynamoDB, which is a NoSQL database designed and fully managed by AWS. DynamoDB is very different from both RDS and Aurora as it supports unstructured data and does not rely on complex queries with...