I would highly recommend candidates to look for exam content thoroughly on the AWS website and familiarize themselves with the AWS and network technologies, before starting this course.

I have designed this course so that candidates can straight away get to the exam mode and validate their current exam preparation before booking the actual exam.

Abilities Validated by the Certification

• Design, develop, and deploy cloud-based solutions using AWS

• Implement core AWS services according to basic architecture best practices

• Design and maintain network architecture for all AWS services

• Leverage tools to automate AWS networking tasks

Recommended Knowledge and Experience

• Although there is no prerequisite for this exam, however, AWS recommends candidates to hold an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or a current Associate-level certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, AWS Certified Developer - Associate or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

• Advanced knowledge of AWS networking concepts and technologies

• Minimum five years of hands-on experience architecting and implementing network solutions

• Advanced networking architectures and interconnectivity options (e.g., IP VPN, MPLS/VPLS)

• Networking technologies within the OSI model, and how they affect implementation decisions

• Development of automation scripts and tools

• CIDR and sub-netting (IPv4 and IPv6)

• IPv6 transition challenges

• Generic solutions for network security features, including WAF, IDS, IPS, DDoS protection, and Economic Denial of Service/Sustainability (EDoS)

• Experience with Network design will be added advantage.

• Exposure to network security technologies will be good.

• Fair understanding of Data Center technologies like DNS, DHCP, Database, etc.

• Understanding of load balancers and how they work.

• Service provider routing protocols, mainly BGPwill be a big advantage.

• Other service provider technologies like MPLS, IP VPN, routing protocols like OSPF/ISIS will be useful as well.