There were still times that I didn't 100% know the answer that AWS was looking for, and I had to make an educated guess. I just have this kind of persistence and dedication! But I knew I wouldn't been able to pass it if I hadn't had prepared these 140 slides with distilled essence. I just thought to share the approach to help you to be prepared. The demos currently have an architecture focus .. because I've been working on SAA-C02 and SAP-C01 courses, the ones i've planned for next will be more OPS/NETWORK focussed. Previous Experience. I finally realized this is a no joke exam. Generic solutions for network security features, including WAF, IDS, IPS, DDoS protection, and Economic Denial of Service/Sustainability (EDoS). Summary. There are 3 important study guides you should follow. It became generally accepted that this is the hardest exam among 8 AWS certifications. skp574 2018-11-17 19:30:38 UTC #1. In September 2017, Jady Liu passed the exam and put a posting on LinkedIn. There was a Thanksgiving break before the re:Invent and I had 2 days to prepare for it and I attempted it on 12/25/2017, the last available day before re:Invent. Deloitte gives last week of the year as corporate holiday, and I decided to use it to prepare for this exam and clear it before new year. I had completed both Acloud.guru and LinuxAcademy.com courses on this exam and did well in the practice exams provided by them. As I learn by reading different blogs, I hope some of the information posted here can be useful to you as well! This exam is tough, definitely a BIG step up from the associate level courses. I took this exam at the beginning of November ‘18. First, I've worked in "traditional" networking before starting my AWS experience, and have passed the Cisco CCNP and CCDP exams. Disappointed, my heart sank. For me, passing the exam isn't just filling in the correct answer, its learning the AWS approach to solving problems, and all the available solutions. I am giving two screenshots of the PowerPoint presentation, which can give you a direction to prepare the study notes. || 华山论剑, 谁与争锋? Besides reading all the related user guides, I also watched re:Invent videos on Networking and took notes on those important concepts. Hopefully this post was helpful, if you'd like to discuss AWS networking, come find me at re:Invent 2018! Even though an associate exam is no longer required to take a specialty exam, I would highly recommend it, so you can learn the AWS way of doing things "right". As mentioned by many people who passed the exam, Adrian's blog can be used as the study guide, the scope of the exam is pretty much outlined in that post. Can the AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty exam be legitemately passed with only a few weeks of studying? Looking back, I should have started taking notes earlier, which is critical technique in preparing for this exam since the scope of the exam is very broad and deep. I still recommend Linux Academy as a general training resource, since I'm a fan of their on-demand labs and wide range of content. But ever since started working on cloud, I always need to work on infrastructure and networking related projects so I decided to learn networking. Study is exhausting sometimes, but I enjoy doing it since I made many friends alone the journey, many people passed this exam before me and their success inspired me to keep running! I did watch many times before fully understood the concepts of BGP and MED, also I watched re:Invent videos on Direct Connect and those videos helped me fully understand the routing, which is very important for passing the exam. There is no shortcut, I went back to square one. Just when I was about to relax and have a break, AWS released another certification, which made the journey a never ending story. This one was AWS cert number 6. I used two main resources to study for the exam: After using Linux Academy for the SAA exam, I was excited to try their ANS cource. Today I passed my AWS Advanced Networking Specialty exam; I won’t say by how much I passed, suffice to say, that a pass, is a pass :-). The first time I took Advanced Networking - Specialty, I failed with a 60% score. I started preparing this PowerPoint file on 12/27/2017, after I prepared those slides, I finally understood networking and when I watched Adrian's course again, I could follow. For example, these articles on network connectivity: I thought this was a difficult test. Networking used to be so boring and I never imagined that I would become a Network Engineer. But it is my last certification for AWS, so I made determination to pass it at any cost! I had failed the exam a year ago, that was poor experience – I saw both unfamiliar terms and topics, I scored high 50s, but nonetheless of course failed. I recently passed the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty exam and want to share my experiences with those of you working toward the certification. It is not great but once again, I became fully certified on AWS. Regarding my timeline, I passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam on 10/18/18, and then passed the AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty exam twenty days later on 11/7/18. I was afraid if I had hope I would fail again. By doing this over a 20 day period, I was able to extract the information and settled on a 140 slides PowerPoint file, I still read the original articles and watched Acloud guru course but I planned to review this file before the exam. A study note to distill the important points from the rest of the contents is critical to pass the exam. I collected all the weak points and put the contents into this study notes, in the following areas as in the Table of Contents. Overall, I did find the material useful and mostly listened to the instructor at 1.25x or 1.5x speed while taking notes on important points. This is a huge advantage if you are looking to take the AWS Certified Advanced Network Specialty exam (ANS), since the exam guide recommends the following "General IT Knowledge": 90% of those topics are covered by the CCNP, and if you have worked in an enterprise environment, you have probably seen or used similar network security features listed on the last line. The article is too long to remember, so I copied the important parts from the article and pasted to couple of slides, the following screenshot illustrates how I organized the articles into powerpoint slides, the thumbnail images on the left illustrates those contents related the network connectivity. AWS Advanced Networking is the hardest of all. [1] The Pursuit of Happyness - My AWS Certification Journey. averageguy72 Senior Member Member Posts: 320 August 2019 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) When screen refreshed, it congratulated me for passing it. The guide is written by seven AWS Solutions Architects, and I found the content very thorough.