AWS Certified Database - Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide: A comprehensive guide to becoming an AWS Certified Database specialist
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Packt Publishing
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.
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"This AWS Certified Database Certification guide is a comprehensive and ready reference for AWS database speciality certification aspirants. It provides clear and concise notes on AWS database platforms from traditional databases, purpose-built databases, and DMS. The author emphasizes that effective certification preparation begins with understanding database fundamentals and AWS infrastructure and presents a precise yet clear recap of database and AWS infrastructure fundamentals. The book includes advice on purpose-built databases such as how to choose the right database for your business needs. This book not only helps you ace the certification, but it will also expand your knowledge of RDS databases and help you in your daily work routine."
--Pavan Pusuluri, Database Consultant and Migration Specialist, AWS
"I recommend this book to those who are aspiring to advance their conceptual knowledge and practical skills in cloud databases and pass the AWS DBS-C01 exam confidently. The book is well structured and based on the exam domains. It starts with the fundamentals of databases and AWS infrastructure, then discusses in-depth topics such as workload-specific database design, deployment and migration, management and operations, as well as monitoring and troubleshooting. The consistency and details in the hands-on labs are tailored for those with a lower level of knowledge in databases or AWS in general. You might open the book for instructions even after passing the exam."
--Yang Hai, 10X AWS Certified Solutions Architect at Amazon
About the Author
Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
- Become familiar with the AWS Certified Database Specialty exam format
- Explore AWS database services and key terminology
- Work with the AWS console and command line used for managing the databases
- Test and refine performance metrics to make key decisions and reduce cost
- Understand how to handle security risks and make decisions about database infrastructure and deployment
- Enhance your understanding of the topics you've learned using real-world hands-on examples
- Identify and resolve common RDS, Aurora, and DynamoDB issues
This AWS certification book is for database administrators and IT professionals who perform complex big data analysis as well as students looking to get AWS Database Specialty certified. A solid understanding of cloud computing, specifically AWS services, is a must. Knowledge of basic administration tasks such as logging in and running SQL queries will be helpful.
- AWS Certified Database Specialty Exam Overview
- Understanding Database Fundamentals
- Understanding AWS Infrastructure
- Relational Database Service
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Redshift and DocumentDB
- Neptune, Quantum Ledger Database, and Timestream
- Amazon ElastiCache
- The AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS Database Migration Service
- Database Task Automation
- AWS Database Security
- CloudWatch and Logging
- Backup and Restore
- Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques
- Exam Practice
- Answers
