CramQuiz Answer these questions. The answers follow the last question. If you cannot answer these questions correctly, consider reading this section again until you can. 1. Your company was recently a target of a malicious actor due to a misconfiguration of an S3 bucket ACL, making it publicly accessible. The CISO has instructed you that all […]

THE AWS CERTIFIED ADVANCED NETWORKING – SPECIALTY EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING: Objective 1.2: Design DNS solutions that meet public, private, and hybrid requirements. DNS and Route 53 Before we go into all of the details of DNS and Route 53 needed to ace the […]

Pricing Gateway endpoints are provided at no charge, other than the cost generated for using the service and transferring data. Endpoints powered by AWS PrivateLink—that is, interface endpoints and GWLB endpoints—are priced against two dimensions: the time the endpoint exists (per hour, for each AZ where the endpoint is deployed) and the amount of data […]

Taking automatic backups, RDS snapshots, and restore and read replicas In this section, you will see how RDS automatic backups and manual snapshots work. These features come with Amazon RDS. Let’s consider a database that is scheduled to take a backup at 5 A.M. every day. If the application fails at 11 A.M., then it […]

Integration with AWS Systems Manager Automation Systems Manager is a set of AWS tools that offers comprehensive configuration management of fleets of servers. We discuss AWS Systems Manager in more detail in Chapter 7, “Provisioning Resources.” An important part of Systems Manager is Systems Manager Automation, which allows you to perform the following common IT […]

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AWS Infrastructure Scanning If you spin up an EC2 instance on a public URL and then check the logs, you will see that they are populated with scans that determine whether any standard software has been installed with the default settings. Even though AWS itself does not publish the list of public URLs used for […]

Amazon EventBridge This section covers the following official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam domain: Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation CramSaver If you can correctly answer these questions before going through this section, save time by skimming the Exam Alerts in this section and then completing the Cram Quiz at the end […]

Gateway Endpoints A gateway endpoint is the first type of endpoint that launched on AWS, and it has been supporting connectivity to only two AWS services ever since: Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB. A gateway endpoint is a routable object that you must add to your VPC or subnet route table to be able to […]

Relational Database Service (RDS) This is one of the most commonly featured topics in AWS exams. You should have sufficient knowledge prior to the exam. In this section, you will learn about Amazon’s RDS. AWS provides several relational databases as a service to its users. Users can run their desired database on EC2 instances, too. […]