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25-question topic drills on networking, cloud, security & more — Pro subscribers get automatic access the day they launch.
Master the 7-layer OSI model and 4-layer TCP/IP model, layer-to-protocol mappings, encapsulation order, and layered troubleshooting.
Practice subnet math, CIDR notation, VLSM design, supernetting, RFC 1918 private addressing, and APIPA recognition.
Drill router and switch operations, VLANs, trunks, STP, routing protocols, administrative distance, and inter-VLAN routing.
Test DNS record types, recursive resolution, TTL caching, DNSSEC, DHCP DORA, relay agents, scope exhaustion, and reservation troubleshooting.
Master site-to-site VPNs, IPsec (ESP, IKE, tunnel/transport mode), TLS VPNs, GRE tunnels, NAT-T, MTU/PMTUD, and SD-WAN concepts.
Learn Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing, algorithms (round-robin, least-connections, IP hash), TLS termination/bridging, GSLB, sticky sessions, and VRRP/HSRP failover.
Master cloud deployment models, migration patterns (rehost, replatform, refactor), edge cloud, multi-cloud trade-offs, and sovereign cloud requirements.
Drill IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS, CaaS, DBaaS — when to choose each, who manages what, and how modern enterprises mix service models per workload.
Test where the line falls between cloud provider and customer — across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS — including patching, IAM, encryption keys, compliance, and incident accountability.
Learn pay-as-you-go, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, spot/preemptible, right-sizing, FinOps, egress mitigation, storage tiering, showback vs chargeback.
Master RTO/RPO, Availability Zones, regions, DR strategies (backup, pilot light, warm standby, active-active), chaos engineering, and ransomware-resilient backups.
Drill auto-scaling groups, vertical vs horizontal, scheduled/predictive scaling, cooldown, flapping, serverless cold-start, queue-depth scaling, and bottleneck shift.
Master identity and access management — authentication vs authorization, IAM roles, policies, RBAC vs ABAC, MFA, federated identity, service accounts, permission boundaries.
Drill symmetric vs asymmetric, AES, TLS, mTLS, KMS, HSM, BYOK, envelope encryption, key rotation, forward secrecy, and forward-secure cryptography.
Learn stateful vs stateless firewalls, NACLs vs Security Groups, IDS/IPS, WAFs, DMZ, microsegmentation, defense in depth, and DDoS mitigation.
Drill never-trust-always-verify, microsegmentation, identity-centric security, continuous verification, BeyondCorp, SDP, ZTNA, service mesh, and step-up authentication.
Test SOC 2 Type I/II, ISO 27001 ISMS, HIPAA + BAA, PCI-DSS scope reduction, GDPR, FedRAMP, NIST CSF, sovereign cloud, and breach-notification timelines.
Master the NIST IR lifecycle, playbooks, SIEM/SOAR, containment vs eradication vs recovery, chain of custody, tabletop exercises, threat hunting, and ransomware response.
Drill EC2 instance types, Lambda serverless, ECS containers, Fargate, EKS, spot/reserved/savings plans, IMDS, placement groups, and cold-start mitigation.
Learn S3 storage classes, EBS volume types, RDS Multi-AZ vs read replicas, DynamoDB modes, Aurora, Redshift, Athena, EFS, S3 Object Lock, and ransomware-resilient backups.
Master Amazon Bedrock foundation models, SageMaker ML lifecycle, RAG patterns, embeddings, vector databases, Guardrails, Comprehend, Rekognition, Transcribe, Polly, Translate.
Drill VPCs, subnets, route tables, NAT Gateway, VPC peering, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, VPC endpoints, security groups vs NACLs, Direct Connect, and Site-to-Site VPN.
Learn Compute Engine, GKE Standard vs Autopilot, Cloud Run serverless containers, Cloud Functions, App Engine, Spot VMs, Sustained Use and Committed Use Discounts.
Drill Cloud Storage classes, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, partitioned tables, and ransomware-resilient backups.
Master the GCP resource hierarchy (Org → Folder → Project → Resource), IAM roles, service accounts, Workload Identity, Org Policies, shared VPC, and least-privilege patterns.
Drill 802.11 standards, Wi-Fi 6/6E/7, WPA2 vs WPA3, SSIDs, channels, OFDMA, MU-MIMO, captive portals, 802.1X, site surveys, rogue APs, and roaming optimization.
Master the 6-step methodology: identify, theorize, test, plan & implement, verify, document. Top-down vs bottom-up vs divide-and-conquer. Reproducibility, scope analysis.
Learn Type 1 vs Type 2 hypervisors, virtual machines, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, container images, registries, snapshots, and security best practices.
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