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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
1
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

Chapter 7 – Managing and Securing the Route 53 Domain Name System

  1. The management entry point is an API that stores the DNS information on an extremely fast database layer. The SLA is 100% and it supports routing and health checks.
  2. Use geolocation routing.
  3. Build a S3 static copy of your site. Use Route 53 failover routing to failover to the S3 bucket in the case of major outages.
  4. Create a DNS record with all the node IPs and a health check based on TCP port 443. If the port is unreachable, then the Route 53 service will remove the node from the response. Direct the provider so that they connect to the DNS name.
  5. Transfer the domain to Route 53 and enable domain transfer locking.
  6. Use a route 53 multi-value record for the cluster. Use the cluster DNS name in the lookup of peer nodes. Use a health check on the record to only determine healthy nodes. Route 53 will always return...