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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

Domain 6 – Manage, optimize, and troubleshoot the network

Lastly, managing, optimizing, and troubleshooting the network will look at your ability to measure the performance aspects of the network services you have deployed in AWS. The exam will lay out another 8-9 questions on this topic and will cover all aspects of testing your ability to use tools, such as CloudWatch and VPC flow logs, to determine the correct configuration, and identify inefficiencies in your architecture. Most of these questions will be looking to see you select the correct solution that will optimize the presented use case. When preparing for the exam, make sure you take a look at the following points:

  • Using CloudWatch to monitor and determine the usage of resources
  • Understand the billing aspects of the AWS services
  • Identifying inefficiencies in your design as far as performance, billing, and security...