Exam Prep Enhanced Course: AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty (ANS-C01)

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In this advanced-level course from Amazon Web Services (AWS), you learn how to assess your preparedness for the AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty (ANS-C01) exam. The AWS Certified Advanced Networking— Specialty (ANS-C01) exam validates the technical expertise necessary to design, implement, operate, and manage complex AWS and hybrid networking architectures.

Learn how to prepare for the exam by exploring the exam’s topic areas and how they map to networking on AWS and to specific areas of study. Gauge your understanding of topics and concepts from each task statement grouped by domain. Reinforce your knowledge and identify learning gaps with hands-on exercises and a walkthrough of exam-style questions. Explore learning strategies to identify incorrect responses by interpreting the concepts that are being tested in the exam using the walkthrough questions. The final module of the course includes extra practice, including the Official Practice Question Set and Bonus Questions.

• Course level: Advanced
• Duration: 6 hours
• Bonus questions
• 2 Assessment Labs

Activities

This course includes the following:

• Videos by an expert instructor who delivers presentations and review sample questions
• Hands-on exercises that help validate skills readiness
• Practice questions written in same style as AWS Certification exams. All questions include detailed feedback and recommended resources to help you prepare for the exam.

Course objectives

In this course, you evaluate your readiness to take the AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty (ANS-C01) exam. The following concepts are reviewed:

• Design and develop hybrid and cloud-based networking solutions by using AWS.
• Implement core AWS networking services according to AWS best practices.
• Operate and maintain hybrid and cloud-based network architecture for all AWS services.
• Use tools to deploy and automate hybrid and cloud-based AWS networking tasks.
• Implement secure AWS networks using AWS security services and constructs.

Intended audience

This course is intended for engineers who want to gauge their preparedness to take the AWS Advanced Networking - Specialty exam.

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following knowledge and experience:

• At least two years of cloud and hybrid networking experience
• At least five years of networking experience
• AWS compute and storage options and their underlying consistency models
• AWS networking nuances and how they relate to the integration of AWS services
• AWS security best practices

Course outline

Module 0: Welcome

• Welcome
• Are you ready?
  

Module 1: Network Design

• Domain 1 Introduction
• Edge networking services
• DNS solutions
• Elastic load balancing
• Logging and monitoring
• Hybrid routing
• AWS connectivity
• Domain 1 Walkthrough questions: Question 1
• Domain 1 Walkthrough questions: Question 2
  

Module 2: Networking Implementation

• Domain 2 Introduction
• Routing and connectivity hybrid
• Connectivity patterns
• DNS
• Automation
• Domain 2 Walkthrough questions: Question 3
• Domain 2 Walkthrough questions: Question 4
  

Module 3: Networking Management and Operations

• Domain 3 Introduction
• Routing and connectivity optimization
• Troubleshooting
• Performance and cost optimization
• Domain 3 Walkthrough questions: Question 5
• Domain 3 Walkthrough questions: Question 6
  

Module 4: Networking Security, Compliance and Governance

• Domain 4 Introduction
• Security and compliance requirements
• Security monitoring
• Security encryption
• Domain 4 Walkthrough question: Question 7
  

Module 5: Assessment Labs

• Secure monitoring and VPC traffic
• Resolve VPC routing conflicts

Module 6: Official Practice Questions

• Official Practice Question Set
• Official Bonus Questions

Module 7: Course Close

• Call to action!