Search icon
Arrow left icon
All Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Newsletters
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

You're reading from  AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

Product type Book
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243108
Pages 472 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Kate Gawron Kate Gawron
Profile icon Kate Gawron

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
2. Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview 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 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 6

  1. 4

TTL will only help if it can remove older records; therefore, this won't immediately help and is incorrect.

DAX may improve performance but it is not the most cost-efficient option.

DynamoDB Streams will not help any performance issue.

Autoscaling is the correct answer, as the issue is a restriction of provisioned capacity units.

  1. 1

An item is 3 KB, so you need one RCU per two items in eventually consistent mode, and three WCUs per item as standard write. This gives you 50 RCUs and 30 WCUs.

  1. 4

25 GB is provided free for each account when using DynamoDB.

  1. 2

An LSI can only be provisioned when the table is created.

A GSI can contain different keys to the base table.

  1. 3

This error is seen when using DAX and not when using DynamoDB, so autoscaling won't help.

This error is seen when using DAX and not when using DynamoDB, so on-demand won't help.

This is a DAX throttling error...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €14.99/month. Cancel anytime}