Course Overview
This course prepares you to take the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam, which validates your ability to design, implement, deploy, and maintain database solutions. In this course, you’ll learn about the logistics of the exam and the mechanics of exam questions, and you’ll explore the exam’s technical domains. You’ll review core AWS services and key concepts for the exam domains:
- Domain 1 – Workload-Specific Database Design
- Domain 2 – Deployment and Migration
- Domain 3 – Management and Operations
- Domain 4 – Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Domain 5 – Database Security
You’ll also learn key test-taking strategies and will put them into action while working through multiple study questions. Once you’ve honed your skills, you’ll have the chance to take a quiz that will help you assess your areas of strength and weakness so that you’ll know what to emphasize in your pre-exam studies.
- Course level: Advanced
- Duration: 1 day
This course includes presentations, interactive quiz reviews, and a practice exam.
Who should attend
This course is intended for:
- DB admin or ops/admin – database.
- Data platform engineers
- Database developers
- Solutions architects
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have the following knowledge and experience:
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or an Associate-level AWS Certification
- 5 or more years of hands-on experience working with complex database solutions on AWS
Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
- Identify your strengths and weaknesses in each exam domain so that you know what to focus on when studying for the exam
- Describe the technical topics and concepts that make up each of the exam domains
- Summarize the logistics and mechanics of the exam and its questions
- Use effective strategies for studying and taking the exam