You're reading from AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide A comprehensive guide to becoming an AWS Certified Database specialist

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243108

Length 472 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

IT Certification

Author (1):

Kate Gawron

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS

2. Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Database Fundamentals

4. Chapter 3: Understanding AWS Infrastructure

5. Part 2: Workload-Specific Database Design

6. Chapter 4: Relational Database Service

7. Chapter 5: Amazon Aurora

8. Chapter 6: Amazon DynamoDB

9. Chapter 7: Redshift and DocumentDB

10. Chapter 8: Neptune, Quantum Ledger Database, and Timestream

11. Chapter 9: Amazon ElastiCache

12. Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security

13. Chapter 10: The AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS Database Migration Service

14. Chapter 11: Database Task Automation

15. Chapter 12: AWS Database Security

16. Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization

17. Chapter 13: CloudWatch and Logging

18. Chapter 14: Backup and Restore

19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques

20. Part 5: Assessment

21. Chapter 16: Exam Practice

22. Chapter 17: Answers

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Review

Let's test our knowledge of the contents of this chapter with some example exam questions:

You have been hired to migrate an Amazon EC2 instance that's running Oracle Database Standard Edition to an RDS for Oracle DB instance. The database is used for critical production services and the business can only provide a 5-minute outage window. How can you achieve this?
1. Configure Oracle Real Application Clusters on the EC2 instance with the RDS DB instance as one of the nodes. Once the EC2 and RDS DB instances are in sync, switch over from Amazon EC2 to Amazon RDS and update the application connection string.
2. Export the Oracle database from the EC2 instance using Oracle Data Pump to an S3 bucket and import it into Amazon RDS. Shut down the application until the restore is complete. Change the database connection string and then restart the application.
3. Create an AWS DMS task with the EC2 instance as the source and the RDS DB instance as the destination. Stop the application...