AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty Exam Outline

The ANS-C01 exam is divided into separate domains. Each domain includes specific statements that outline what candidates should be able to demonstrate. This outline briefly covers each domain and how these statements should be interpreted by candidates for the exam.

Test Domains

The ANS-C01 exam is divided into four test domains. These domains identify, at a high level, areas of expertise that the candidate will be tested on. You can see in the following table that each domain holds a significant amount of weight on the exam; therefore, the candidate needs to make sure they can demonstrate their knowledge and skills adequately in each domain. These weights only represent the scored content on the exam.

Table 0.1: Test domain weighting

Task Statements

Each domain contains a set of task statements relating to the content covered on the exam. While not a comprehensive list of the content of the exam, each task statement on the blueprint provides additional context to help candidates prepare for the exam. The additional context per task statement identifies items that the candidate will need knowledge of versus skills in. As the reader, you can logically separate these two statements as theory versus hands-on experience.

For areas that require knowledge of, you will be expected to demonstrate your knowledge of how that item fits into an overall solution. This may require detailing the components of the technology/service being asked about and/or what use case it can address. For areas that require skills in, you will be expected to demonstrate your knowledge of how to configure, validate, or troubleshoot a selected technology or AWS service.

For example, a knowledge of example for Amazon VPC would involve understanding its components, such as subnets, route tables, and NAT gateways, and how they fit together in the network architecture. A skills in example would involve hands-on experience configuring a NAT gateway to allow private subnet instances to access the internet while ensuring proper route table and security group settings.

Note

For a comprehensive analysis of the chapters that correspond to specific domains, please refer to the List of Task Statements per Test Domain section in the Appendix 1.