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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
Free Chapter
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

Cheat sheet

This cheat sheet summarizes the key points from this chapter:

  • Redshift is a fully managed, columnar, analytics, and reporting database based on PostgreSQL.
  • Redshift uses multiple nodes and data sharding to underpin its massively parallel feature, which ensures its rapid response times to complex queries.
  • It is important to correctly design your Redshift storage and column sort order to maximize performance.
  • Redshift can query data directly from S3 using Redshift Spectrum.
  • You can quickly import data in real time into Redshift using AWS Kinesis Firehose.
  • DocumentDB is a NoSQL database designed for JSON document-based workloads.
  • DocumentDB is deployed into a VPC.
  • You can deploy up to 15 read replicas for DocumentDB and it supports cross-region replicas using the global cluster feature.
  • You can use parameter groups to control DocumentDB's features and options.
  • DocumentDB has a TTL feature so that you can automatically delete...