Format – Practice Exam No. of Questions – 320 Questions MCQ and Answers with Explanation
About AWS Certified Database – Specialty Practice Exam
About AWS Certified Database – Specialty
AWS Database Specialty certification is intended for candidates who perform a database-focused role. This exam validates an examinee’s comprehensive understanding of databases, including the concepts of design, migration, deployment, access, maintenance, automation, monitoring, security, and troubleshooting. It will measure your ability to recommend, design, and maintain the optimal AWS database solution to improve performance, reduce costs, and enable innovation.
Who should take the exam?
Candidates applying for the exam must understand and differentiate the key features of AWS database services.
They should know how to analyze needs and requirements to recommend and design appropriate database solutions using AWS services
Prerequisite for the Exam
Candidates applying for the exam must have at least 5 years of experience with database technologies.
Also, they must have at least 2 years of hands-on experience working on AWS.
In addition, having experience and expertise working with on-premises and AWS-Cloud-based relational and non-relational databases can be an advantage.
Course Outline for AWS Database Specialty Exam
AWS Certified Database Specialty covers the following topics –
Domain 1: Workload-Specific Database Design
1.1 Select appropriate database services for specific types of data and workloads
1.2 Determine strategies for disaster recovery and high availability
1.3 Design database solutions for performance, compliance, and scalability
1.4 Compare the costs of database solutions
Domain 2: Deployment and Migration
2.1 Automate database solution deployments
2.2 Determine data preparation and migration strategies
2.3 Execute and validate data migration
Domain 3: Management and Operations
3.1 Determine maintenance tasks and processes
3.2 Determine backup and restore strategies
3.3 Manage the operational environment of a database solution
Domain 4: Monitoring and Troubleshooting
4.1 Determine monitoring and alerting strategies
4.2 Troubleshoot and resolve common database issues
4.3 Optimize database performance
Domain 5: Database Security
5.1 Encrypt data at rest and in transit
5.2 Evaluate auditing solutions
5.3 Determine access control and authentication mechanisms
5.4 Recognize potential security vulnerabilities within database solutions