AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate
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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

SOA-C03

Validate your expertise in automating, managing, and troubleshooting AWS cloud operations. Ideal for SysOps administrators seeking to advance their careers with the latest AWS best practices.

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Sample AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate exam question

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MasterNetworking and Content Delivery

A hybrid network uses Direct Connect (DX) and VPN both terminating on the same Virtual Private Gateway. Both connections use BGP with on-premises ASN 65001 and VGW ASN 64512. The goal is to prefer DX over VPN. Which BGP configuration achieves this?

BGP configuration
Configuration snippet for on-premises router:
  ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 <nexthop>
  router bgp 65001
   neighbor <aws-dx-ip> remote-as 64512
   neighbor <aws-vpn-ip> remote-as 64512
   ! Advertise on-premises prefix
   network 172.16.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0
   ! For VPN, prepend AS path
   route-map prepend-as permit 10
    set as-path prepend 65001 65001
   neighbor <aws-vpn-ip> route-map prepend-as out

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