Domain 5 · 18% of Exam

Networking and Content Delivery

Domain 5 validates VPC connectivity, DNS, hybrid networking, load balancing, edge delivery, network security, and troubleshooting traffic flow.

What You'll Be Tested On

  • VPC routing, subnets, NAT gateways, internet gateways, security groups, NACLs, VPC endpoints, and flow logs
  • DNS operations with Route 53 hosted zones, health checks, failover, resolver endpoints, and private hosted zones
  • Hybrid connectivity using Site-to-Site VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, and route propagation
  • Elastic Load Balancing health checks, listener rules, target groups, TLS, and cross-zone behavior
  • Content delivery with CloudFront origins, cache policies, signed access, invalidations, logging, and origin failover

Key AWS Services in This Domain

Exam Tips for Domain 5

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For VPC troubleshooting, follow the packet path: route tables, security groups, NACLs, DNS, endpoints, and network ACL return traffic.

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Security groups are stateful; NACLs are stateless and need explicit inbound and outbound allowance.

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Route 53 Resolver inbound endpoints let on-premises DNS query AWS; outbound endpoints forward AWS queries to on-premises DNS.

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CloudFront cache behavior problems often come down to the cache key, origin request policy, TTLs, or invalidation requirements.

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