AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Cert Prep: 1 Introduction and Services
2h 18mBeginner2020-08-31
Authors

Tom Carpenter
CTO at Certified Wireless Network Professionals
Course details
Earning the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification validates your understanding of AWS database services and ability to design and maintain database solutions. In this course—the first in a series designed to help you prepare for the AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) exam—review fundamental database concepts and the different database services offered by AWS. Instructor Tom Carpenter begins by going over the exam objectives. He then provides an overview of key database concepts, including the differences between cloud-based and local databases and how to read and write data with SQL. Plus, learn about the different AWS database services, from relational databases like Aurora to in-memory databases like ElastiCache.
Skills covered
Cloud AdministrationData EngineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonCloud ServicesCloud PlatformsCert PrepCloud ComputingData Science
Concepts
1. Introducing Databases
- 01 - AWS database - Specialty recommended knowledge
- 02 - Databases defined
- 03 - Relational databases
- 04 - Database management system (DBMS)
- 05 - Cloud-based vs. local databases
- 06 - Platform
- 07 - Database applications
- 08 - Database access languages
- 09 - Introducing SQL
- 10 - Reading data with SQL
- 11 - Writing data with SQL
- 12 - Working with database objects
2. Database Services
- 13 - AWS database services
- 14 - Relational databases (Aurora, Redshift, and RDS)
- 15 - Key-value (NoSQL) databases (DynamoDB)
- 16 - In-memory databases (ElastiCache)
- 17 - Document databases (DocumentDB)
- 18 - Graph databases (Neptune)
- 19 - Time series databases (Timestream)
- 20 - Ledger databases (QLDB)
- 21 - Instance-based database servers
- 22 - Access control and authentication
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