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AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty Exam Guide

By : Marko Sluga
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AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty Exam Guide

3 (1)
By: Marko Sluga

Overview of this book

Amazon has recently come up a with specialty certifications which validates a particular user's expertise that he/she would want to build a career in. Since the Cloud market now demands of AWS networking skills this becomes the most wanted certification to upheld ones industry portfolio. This book would be your ideal companion to getting skilled with complex and creative networking solutions. Cloud practitioners or associate-level certified individuals interested in validating advanced skills in networking can opt for this practical guide. This book will include topics that will help you design and implement AWS and hybrid IT network architectures along with some network automation tasks. You will also delve deep into topics that will help you design and maintain network architecture for all AWS services. Like most of our certification guides this book will also follow a unique approach of testing your learning with chapter-level practice exercises and certification-based mock tests. The exam mock tests will help you gauge whether you are ready to take the certification exam or not. This book will also be an advanced guide for networking professionals to enhance their networking skills and get certified. By the end of this book, you will be all equipped with AWS networking concepts and techniques and will have mastered core architectural best practices.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Introduction
3
Section 2: Managing Networks in AWS
7
Section 3: Managing and Securing Network-Attached Platform Services in AWS
12
Section 4: Monitoring and Operating the AWS Networks
14
Section 5: Network automation in AWS
16
Section 6: The Exam

Introduction to Route 53

At the core of modern web-scale applications is ease of access on the internet. Choose any name of a business, social network, or publication, wrap it up with a .com at the end and type that into a browser. The most likely thing to happen is a website belonging to that company, newspaper, TV channel, or social network will pop up. DNS is probably a technology everyone using the internet uses multiple times per day without even knowing it. And it is becoming crucial for both making the application respond on the internet, as well as giving the application the ability to be highly available, resilient, and scalable.

Traditional DNS servers map IP addresses to FQDNs in zone files. These are stored in text or binary format (binary can help with performance). Lots of times, these files are stored on one master server and one or more slaves. The master is where...