AWS Certification
AWS Certified Database - Speciality
This credential is helpful for organizations in identifying and developing talent in critical skills in implementing cloud initiatives. Earning this certification will validate your expertise in recommending, designing and maintaining optimal database solutions.
This certification is more suitable for individuals with five years of experience with database technologies, along with two or three years of working with on-premise and AWS cloud-based relational databases. Additionally individuals with the ability to analyze requirements to design and recommend database solutions
Who should take this exam?
AWS Certified Database – Specialty is intended for individuals with experience and expertise working with on-premises and AWS Cloud-based relational and non-relational databases. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
- Five years of experience with common database technologies
- Two years of hands-on experience and expertise working with on-premises and AWS Cloud-based relational and NoSQL databases
- Ability to understand and differentiate the key features of AWS database services
- Ability to analyze needs and requirements to design and recommend appropriate database solutions by using AWS services
Exam Overview
Level: Speciality
Length: 180 minutes to complete the exam
Cost: 300 USD
Format: 65 questions; either multiple choice or multiple response
Exam Content
Response types
There are two types of questions on the exam:
- Multiple choice: Has one correct response and three incorrect responses
(distractors) - Multiple response: Has two or more correct responses out of five or more
response options
Select one or more responses that best complete the statement or answer the question. Distractors, or incorrect answers, are response options that a candidate with incomplete knowledge or skill might choose. Distractors are generally plausible responses that match the content area.
Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect; there is no penalty for guessing. The exam includes 50 questions that affect your score.
Content outline
This exam guide includes weightings, content domains, and task statements for the exam. This guide does not provide a comprehensive list of the content on the exam. However, additional context for each task statement is available to help you prepare for the exam.
The exam has the following content domains and weightings:
- Domain 1: Workload-Specific Database Design (26% of scored content)
- Domain 2: Deployment and Migration (20% of scored content)
- Domain 3: Management and Operations (18% of scored content)
- Domain 4: Monitoring and Troubleshooting (18% of scored content)
- Domain 5: Database Security (18% of scored content)
Prepare for the exam
Below are recommended steps you can follow to get ready for exam day. Note: AWS does not require you to take any specific AWS training as part of your exam prep.
Classroom Training
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Exam Readiness
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Exam Guide
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Practice Questionnaire
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FAQs
No, there are no prerequisites to prepare for and take this certification exam. The content outline for this exam is designed for candidates new to Cloud who may not have an information technology (IT) background. Candidates for this exam could have up to 6 months of exposure to AWS Cloud, but it is not required.
Earning this certification validates high-level understanding of AWS Cloud, services, and terminology. This certification serves as an entry point to a cloud career for candidates from non-IT backgrounds switching to cloud. Job listings requiring AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner have increased 84% (Oct 2021 – Sept 2022) per Lightcast™ October 2022. This certification is also ideal for line-of-business employees (sales, product management, project management, etc.) who want to gain cloud literacy and communicate more effectively with technical teams and customers.
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified Developer – Associate, and/or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate are next certifications that other cloud professionals have earned to advance further in cloud architect, cloud engineer, developer, and systems administrator roles.
This certification is valid for 3 years.
Before your certification expires, you can recertify through one of the options below:
- Complete the new AWS Cloud Quest: Recertify Cloud Practitioner game-based learning. This guided, self-paced option is free during the beta period November 21, 2023 – May 31, 2024. No exam prep or exam is needed for this game-based recertification option.
- Pass the latest version of the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam
- Pass an Associate-level or Professional-level exam
Yes. Once you earn one AWS Certification, you get 50% discount on other AWS Certification exams. You can sign in and access this discount in your AWS Certification Account.
