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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

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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
12
Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security
16
Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization
20
Part 5: Assessment
21
Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Deploying and querying a DynamoDB table

Now that we have learned about DynamoDB and its features, let's deploy our own DynamoDB table to practice using the console and API. We will be using the GameScores table we've seen in some of the examples in this chapter to build a simple leaderboard database. We'll be using both the console and the AWS CLI for these steps.

Provisioning a DynamoDB table

We'll start by provisioning a DynamoDB table. We'll be using the Ohio (us-east-1) region:

  1. Open the AWS console in an internet browser and log in using an account that has privileges to create and modify a DynamoDB table.
  2. Navigate to the DynamoDB section.
  3. Click the orange Create table button on the right side of the screen:

Figure 6.4 – Screenshot of Create resources

  1. This will open the Create table page, allowing us to enter the details of our table. Choose the following options. Any options that are not mentioned...