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AWS Certified Database - Specialty Crash Course

Published by Pearson

Advanced content levelAdvanced

Get ready to crush the AWS Database - Specialty exam!

  • Review the objectives in the DBS-C01 exam
  • Focus on AWS database services, features and implementation patterns covered on the exam
  • Participate in quiz drills that teach you how to navigate and answer real-world questions
  • Learn best practices for passing the exam

Get the edge you need to take the AWS Certified Database - Specialty exam. In this two-day course you will get targeted training on the topics covered in Amazon’s AWS Certified Database - Specialty exam. This training course is designed to walk you through the topics covered in the exam so you have the knowledge you need to pass the test.

Included in this course are introductions and explanations of each of the five exam question domains, with a strong focus on the strategies and principles that the exam scenarios will be drawn from. You will also explore how to approach, decipher and answer real-world practice questions throughout so you can learn how to eliminate the incorrect answers and navigate the exam. Finally, Chad will share his extensive knowledge of the AWS Certified Database Specialty materials so you can learn best practices and prepare for exam day with confidence.

AWS Certifications are among the most sought-after in the Technology sector, and Amazon’s certification exams cover a wide range of services, technologies, and implementation patterns. This course is designed to give you the advantage you need to successfully study for this specialty AWS exam.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

By the end of the live online course, you’ll understand:

  • The AWS database service decision tree
  • Database security implementation and auditing
  • Database deployment and migration patterns
  • Database management and operations
  • Database monitoring and troubleshooting

And you’ll be able to:

  • Design solutions that incorporate AWS database services
  • Implement secure, highly available, performant and cost-optimized database workloads
  • Plan and implement database migrations from on-premises workloads

This live event is for you because...

  • You are a certification exam candidate seeking to hone your skills on exam topics
  • You are an Infrastructure or Application architect responsible for designing database systems that will be deployed in AWS
  • You are a database architect or administrator

Prerequisites

  • A solid understanding of database technologies, including relational vs NoSQL, and the various third-party software available for each
  • Basic working knowledge of common AWS services such as VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM and others

Recommended Preparation

Recommended Follow-up

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Day 1

Introduction - 30m

  • Exam Guide
  • Exam Logistics

Workload-Specific Database Design - 120m

  • Database Service Summary
  • Break - 10 mins
  • DR and HA Design
  • Database Service Comparisons and Tradeoffs
  • Break – 10 mins

Deployment and Migration - 70m

  • Database Deployment Automation
  • Migration Strategies
  • Migration Execution and Validation

Q&A - 10m

Day 2

Management and Operations - 90m

  • Maintenance Tasks and Processes
  • Break - 10 mins
  • Backup and Restore Strategies

Monitoring and Troubleshooting - 70m

  • Monitoring and Alerting Strategies
  • Troubleshooting Common Issues
  • Break - 10 mins
  • Performance Optimization

Database Security - 70m

  • Data Encryption
  • Auditing For Vulnerabilities
  • Access Control and Authentication

Q&A - 10m

Your Instructor

  • Chad Smith

    Chad Smith is a technology professional, author and trainer focused on cloud infrastructure and management. He is the Principal Cloud Architect at Brightkey.cloud and has a wealth of personal real-world experience in cloud adoption, infrastructure design, operations and security. Chad holds current AWS certifications in Architecture, SysOps, Security, Networking and Databases and is also certified in CompTIA Cloud+.

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Skill covered

AWS Certified Database - Specialty