AWS Certified Database - Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Preparation for AWS

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Description

This certification Learning Path is specifically designed to prepare you for the AWS Certified Database - Specialty (DBS-C01) released in April 2020. It covers all the elements required across all of the domains outlined in the exam blueprint. Throughout this learning path, you will be guided via our courses, hands-on labs, lab challenges, and a preparation exam at the end, all of which are focused on areas that will be assessed within the exam.

Intended Audience

This learning path is suitable for anyone wanting to pass the AWS Certified Database - Specialty DBS-C01 exam. As defined in the exam blueprint, which can be found here, the exam has been designed for individuals who perform in a database-focused role and validates an examinee’s comprehensive understanding of databases, including the concepts of design, migration, deployment, access, maintenance, automation, monitoring, security, and troubleshooting.

Learning Objectives

As defined by AWS, the aim of the certification is to validate your knowledge by being able to:

Understand and differentiate the key features of AWS database services.
Analyze needs and requirements to design and recommend appropriate database solutions using AWS services.

As a means of demonstrating this knowledge, you will be tested across 5 different domains, with each domain contributing to a total percentage of your overall score. These domains are broken down as:

Domain 1: Workload-Specific Database Design 26%

Domain 2: Deployment and Migration 20%

Domain 3: Management and Operations 18%

Domain 4: Monitoring and Troubleshoot 18%

Domain 5: Database Security 18%

As you progress through the learning path, you will gain all the information and knowledge required to fulfill the domain expectations, gaining a deep understanding within each area.

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Your certificate for this learning path

Training Content

1

Course - Beginner - 5m

Introduction: AWS Certified Database - Specialty

This brief course introduces the AWS Certified Database - Specialty (DBS-C01) learning path, and outlines the five domains covered in the exam.

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Resource - Beginner - 10m

AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones, Regions, Edge Locations, Regional Edge Caches

An explanation of the core components that make up the AWS Global Infrastructure

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Course - Beginner - 1h 1m

Overview of Differences Between AWS Database Types

This course covers AWS databases at a very high level and will include how they work, their strengths, and what workloads are best suited for them.

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Course - Beginner - 1h 8m

FREE

Database Fundamentals for AWS - Part 1 of 2

This course (part of a two-part series on AWS database fundamentals) introduces you to Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Neptune.

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Hands-on Lab - Intermediate - 1h 15m

Starting a Highly Available Graph Database With Amazon Neptune

In this lab, you will create a DB subnet group, a Neptune Database, and you will perform some SPARQL commands.

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Exam - 25m

Knowledge Check: Database Fundamentals for AWS Part 1

Knowledge Check: Database Fundamentals for AWS Part 1

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Course - Beginner - 1h 2m

FREE

Database Fundamentals for AWS - Part 2 of 2

This course (part of a two-part series on AWS database fundamentals) introduces you to Amazon Redshift, Amazon QLDB, Amazon DocumentDB, and Amazon Keyspaces.

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Exam - 25m

Knowledge Check: Database Fundamentals for AWS Part 2

Knowledge Check: Database Fundamentals for AWS Part 2

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Course - Beginner - 33m

Amazon RDS: Introduction to Monitoring

This introductory course provides a foundational awareness of the tools AWS available to monitor Amazon RDS databases

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Course - Intermediate - 43m

Understanding Amazon RDS Performance Insights

This course explores Amazon RDS Performance Insights, a performance monitoring and tuning feature that can quickly assess the database load on an Amazon RDS database instance.

11

Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 30m

Getting Started with Amazon Aurora Database Engine

A hands-on lab introducing you to the high performance and high availability Amazon Aurora database engine.

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12

Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 30m

Rewinding a MySQL Amazon Aurora Database with Backtrack

Learn how to rewind a MySQL Aurora RDS database using Backtrack. Backtrack can seamlessly restore your database in minutes and lets you move back and forth to examine data changes in detail.

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13

Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h

Create your first Amazon ElastiCache Cluster

ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud. This lab experience will guide you during the creation of an Elasticache cluster and its the first usage.

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Course - Intermediate - 11m

Understanding RDS Scaling and Elasticity

This course explores how to scale your RDS databases based on reads or writes, horizontally or vertically.

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Course - Beginner - 22m

When to use RDS Multi-AZ & Read Replicas

In this course, you'll learn about RDS multi-AZ and will come away knowing when to implement and use this feature within your own environment.

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 15m

Create Your First Amazon RDS Database

You will learn the steps to create and use the MySQL Relational Database using Amazon RDS.

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Course - Intermediate - 33m

Understanding Costs Associated with Amazon RDS

This course explores the cost metrics associated with the Amazon Relational Database Service, known as RDS.

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Course - Intermediate - 1h 32m

Working with Amazon DynamoDB

In this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, including table design, reading, writing, and working with large tables.

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Course - Intermediate - 11m

Configuring Operational Parameters for AWS Databases

This course explores how to configure operational parameters for AWS Databases.

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Course - Intermediate - 39m

Backup and Restore Capabilities of Amazon RDS & Amazon DynamoDB

This course explores the different strategies that are available to back up and restore your AWS databases across Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB.

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Course - Intermediate - 24m

Understanding AWS Database Authentication & Access Controls

This course covers the different options available to you to enable you to authenticate to your Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB Databases.

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 10m

Introduction to DynamoDB

Move your first steps using DynamoDB. Create tables with and withoud secondary indexes, learn how to add new rows and query your data by using the AWS Management Console.

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Course - Intermediate - 34m

Amazon Aurora High Availability

This course explores the various configuration options and techniques that you can use to create highly available Amazon Aurora databases.

24

Course - Intermediate - 23m

Amazon DynamoDB High Availability

This course explores Amazon Web Service's DynamoDB and teaches you how to architect DynamoDB setups.

25

Course - Intermediate - 7m

Using Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) to Enhance Performance

This short course focuses on the DynamoDB Accelerator, more commonly referred to as DAX.

26

Course - Intermediate - 17m

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How AWS IAM is Used to Securely Manage Access

This course provides an overview of the AWS Identity & Access Management Service, commonly referred to as IAM, along with its core features.

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Course - Intermediate - 25m

Managing User Identities with Long Term Credentials in AWS IAM

This course explains how to manage your user identities when using the AWS Identity and Access Management Service, commonly referred to as IAM.

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Course - Intermediate - 35m

Managing Access using IAM User Groups & Roles

This course explores some of the security best practices when using user groups and roles and how these can help you secure access to your resources more effectively.

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Course - Intermediate - 37m

Using IAM Policies to Define and Manage Permissions

This course covers how IAM Policies can be used to allow you to grant and restrict access to your resources within your AWS account, as well as the different types of policies and how to interpret a policy.

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Course - Intermediate - 55m

AWS Encryption for Data Analytics

This course looks at how to secure your big data within AWS by implementing different data encryption options.

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Course - Intermediate - 15m

Security Best Practices when Working with AWS Databases

This course explores the security best practices when working with AWS databases, specifically looking at RDS and DynamoDB with some extra content related to Aurora.

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Course - Intermediate - 27m

Protecting your AWS Databases through Encryption

This course looks at the different encryption mechanisms that can be utilized across different AWS Database services, thereby enhancing the security posture and protection of your data.

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Course - Beginner - 1h 7m

Introduction to the AWS Database Migration Service

In this course, you'll learn about the AWS Database Migration Service and the AWS Database Schema Conversion Tool and how they can be used to migrate data.

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Course - Intermediate - 1h 10m

How to Use KMS Key Encryption to Protect Your Data

In this course, you will learn the basics of KMS, what it will cost to implement, how to encrypt data, and more...

35

Course - Intermediate - 10m

Using Automation to Deploy AWS Databases

This course explores how to use automation when creating Amazon RDS databases. It includes using AWS Secrets Manager for increasing the security of provisioned resources by limiting human intervention.

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 45m

Storing and Rotating RDS Credentials in Secrets Manager

Learn how to use AWS SecretsManager and Amazon Relational Database Service to generate, store, and rotate a password in Secrets Manager. Use Secrets Manager with a Python application.

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Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 30m

Migrating MySQL to PostgreSQL With the AWS Database Migration Service

Learn how to migrate a MySQL database to Amazon Aurora Postgres with the AWS Database Migration Service.

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Hands-on Lab Challenge - Beginner - 1h 10m

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Challenge

In this lab challenge, your database skills are tested as you are tasked to migrate data between two real RDS instances using AWS Database Migration Service.

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Course - Beginner - 17m

Common DR & Business Continuity Strategies on AWS

This course focuses on some of the common disaster recovery strategies designed to help your organization recover from an incident that has affected your AWS environment.

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Course - Beginner - 32m

Audit, Monitor & Evaluate with AWS CloudTrail & AWS Config

This course explores AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config, two services used to help you audit, monitor and evaluate your AWS infrastructure and resources.

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Exam - 3h

Cert Prep: Certified Database - Specialty for AWS

Cert Prep: Certified Database - Specialty for AWS

About the Author

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Stuart Scott

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Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.

To date, Stuart has created 150+ courses relating to Cloud reaching over 180,000 students, mostly within the AWS category and with a heavy focus on security and compliance.

Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.

He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.

In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.

Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.