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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

Domain 1 – Design and implement hybrid IT network architectures at scale

One of the biggest emphases of this exam is hybrid network implementation. You can expect about 14-15 questions that will test your ability to understand the connectivity options provided by AWS and their features. Namely, a large emphasis of this domain is on Direct Connect (DX), the VGW, and BGP routing. You should familiarize yourself with the concepts of hybrid environments, how to make them highly available, and how to implement the BGP routing required to make those features work. When preparing for the exam, make sure you brush up on the following topics:

  • Designing VPN connections with the VGW
  • When to use the VGW and when to use a VPN instance
  • The DX connectivity options including the network speeds
  • The physical customer gateway features that need to be supported to connect to DX
  • Making DX...