Troubleshooting Direct Connect Direct Connect issues can be difficult to diagnose. The ideal approach is to use the OSI model to help isolate the potential issues and the underlying cause. Layer 1 (physical) issues occur when you are having difficulty establishing physical connectivity to an AWS Direct Connect device. When a Direct Connect circuit is […]

Organizations Organizations use policies to create controls that are applied to accounts. A policy is a document containing one or more rules. Standard policies are used for defining backups, tag keys with allowed values, how artificial intelligence services store and use content, and service control policies that we will discuss in this section. Policies can […]

Manage external users To create guest users from the Azure portal, browse to your Entra tenant as a user with rights to create users, select the Users blade, choose New User, and then select Invite External User. An example of this blade is shown in Figure 1-10. A guest user can be anyone who is invited to […]

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Amazon EKS is a fully managed Kubernetes service that makes it easier to build, operate, and manage Kubernetes clusters on AWS. EKS offers a native Kubernetes experience to the developer, where the control plane is managed by AWS. EKS is integrated with core AWS services such as CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, […]

Configure Microsoft Entra Join Also, registration of devices in Entra can be combined with a mobile device management solution, such as Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, Mobile Appli- cation Management (MAM), and Group Policy if it is hybrid joined. This allows for additional device attributes—such as device operating system version and device state (including whether the device […]

External data retrieval using a custom adapter In scenarios where an existing adapter isn’t suitable, a custom adapter can be created in Apex, using the Apex Connector Framework. The knowledge of coding such an adapter isn’t in the scope of the exam or this book, but documentation can be found here: https://developer.salesforce.com/ docs/atlas.en-us.234.0.apexcode.meta/apexcode/apex_connector_top.htm. A custom adapter is generally […]

You can access this functionality by navigating to your Entra tenant in the Azure portal and then clicking Users. You will see these options at the top of the blade, as shown in Figure 1-7. FIGURE 1-7 Bulk update options in the Users blade in the Azure portal Clicking Bulk Create opens the Bulk Create […]

OSPF Configurations and Verifications Table 1-3 lists the OSPFv2/v3 default parameters. You can alter OSPF parameters as necessary. You are not required to alter any of these parameters, but the following parameters must be consistent across all routers in an attached network: ospf hello-interval and ospf dead-interval. If you configure any of these parameters, be sure […]

Manage user and group properties As users and groups are used, they might need updates to their attributes (or properties). For example, you might need to change a user’s job title, or you might need to add or remove members from an existing group. Users and groups can be updated using management tools such as the Azure portal, Azure […]

TCP/IP Network Layer The application layer includes many protocols. The transport layer includes fewer protocols, most notably, TCP and UDP. The TCP/IP network layer includes a small number of protocols, but only one major protocol: the Internet Protocol (IP). In fact, the name TCP/IP is simply the names of the two most common protocols (TCP […]