This course prepares a student to take the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty certification exam.
Course Outline:
Chapter 1: Introduction
- What Does this Course Cover?
- Exam Objectives
- Objective Map
Chapter 2: Introduction to Advanced Networking
- AWS Global Infrastructure
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
- AWS Networking Services
- Summary
- Resources to Review
- Exam Essentials
- Exercise
Chapter 3: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and Networking Fundamentals
- Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
- Subnets
- Route Tables
- IP Addressing
- Security Groups
- Network Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Internet Gateways
- Network Address Translation (NAT) Instances and NAT Gateways
- Egress-Only Internet Gateways (EIGWs)
- Virtual Private Gateways (VGWs), Customer Gateways, and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- VPC Endpoints
- VPC Peering
- Placement Groups
- Elastic Network Interfaces
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Option Sets
- Amazon Domain Name Service (DNS) Server
- VPC Flow Logs
- Summary
- Resources to Review
- Exam Essentials
- Exercises
Chapter 4: Advanced Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
- VPC Endpoints
- VPC Endpoint Overview
- Gateway VPC Endpoints
- Interface VPC Endpoints
- Transitive Routing
- IP Addressing Features
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Chapter 5: Virtual Private Networks
- Introduction to Virtual Private Networks
- Site-to-Site VPN
- Client-to-Site VPN
- Design Patterns
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Chapter 6: AWS Direct Connect
- What Is AWS Direct Connect?
- Physical Connectivity
- Logical Connectivity
- Resilient Connectivity
- Billing
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Chapter 7: Domain Name System and Load Balancing
- Introduction to Domain Name System and Load Balancing
- Domain Name System
- Amazon EC2 DNS Service
- Amazon Route 53
- Elastic Load Balancing
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Chapter 8: Amazon CloudFront
- Introduction to Amazon CloudFront
- Content Delivery Network Overview
- The AWS CDN: Amazon CloudFront
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Chapter 9: Network Security
- Governance
- Data Flow Security
- AWS Security Services
- Detection and Response
- Summary
- Resources to Review
- Exam Essentials
- Exercises
Chapter 10: Network Performance
- Network Performance Basics
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Instance Networking Features
- Optimizing Performance
- Example Applications
- Performance Testing
- Summary
- Resources to Review
- Exam Essentials
- Exercises
Chapter 11: Automation
- Introduction to Network Automation
- Infrastructure as Code
- Network Monitoring Tools
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Chapter 12: Service Requirements
- Introduction to Service Requirements
- The Elastic Network Interface
- AWS Cloud Services and Their Network Requirements
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Chapter 13: Hybrid Architectures
- Introduction to Hybrid Architectures
- Application Architectures
- Access VPC Endpoints and Customer-Hosted Endpoints over AWS Direct Connect
- Use of Transitive Routing in Hybrid IT
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Chapter 14: Network Troubleshooting
- Introduction to Network Troubleshooting
- Methodology for Troubleshooting
- Network Troubleshooting Tools
- Troubleshooting Common Scenarios
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Chapter 15: Billing
- Billing Overview
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Chapter 16: Risk and Compliance
- It All Begins with Threat Modeling
- Ownership Model and the Role of Network Management
- Controlling Access to AWS
- Encryption Options
- Network Activity Monitoring
- Malicious Activity Detection
- Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessment
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Resources to Review
- Exercises
Chapter 17: Scenarios and Reference Architectures
- Introduction to Scenarios and Reference Architectures
- Hybrid Networking Scenario
- Multi-Location Resiliency
- Summary
- Resources to Review
- Exam Essentials
- Exercises
All necessary course materials are included.
Certification(s):
This course prepares a student to take the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty certification exam.