Free ANS-C01 practice test — 1,044+ ANS-C01 practice questions with detailed explanations across all 4 official ANS-C01 exam domains. Every set is scored and drawn from the live question bank — so you practise exactly what the exam tests, not outdated dumps.
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This free ANS-C01 practice test mirrors the structure and difficulty of the real AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty ANS-C01 exam. Every question is written against the official 2026 exam blueprint published by Amazon Web Services, ensuring you practise exactly what the exam tests — not last year's objectives.
The ANS-C01 blueprint is divided into 4weighted domains. Questions on this page are distributed proportionally across each domain, so the mix you see here reflects the same weighting you'll face on exam day. High-weight domains like Network Design and Network Implementation contribute the most questions, meaning focused practice on these areas gives you the highest return on study time.
ANS-C01 Exam Blueprint — 4 Domains
Network Management and Operations
Network Security, Compliance and Governance
Network Design
Network Implementation
67 numbered sets, 4 domain question banks, and targeted sessions — every page is a unique set of questions.
Choose all correct answers
Each chapter page covers one topic in depth — theory, key concepts, and focused practice questions. Use these to close knowledge gaps before returning to full practice tests.
Getting the most from practice questions requires more than just clicking through answers. Here is the study method used by candidates who pass ANS-C01 on their first attempt:
Answer before revealing
Read each ANS-C01 question fully, eliminate obviously wrong choices, then commit to an answer before clicking to reveal. This active recall process is what builds lasting knowledge.
Read every explanation
Even when you answer correctly, read the full explanation. Knowing WHY the right answer is correct — and why the distractors are wrong — is what separates a 750 score from a 900 score.
Track weak domains
Note which ANS-C01 domains you get wrong most often. Then do a targeted 20-30 question session focused only on that domain until your accuracy improves.
Simulate exam pacing
The real ANS-C01 gives you roughly 2.6 minutes per question. Use the 60 or 120-question sessions to practise hitting that pace comfortably.
Most candidates who pass ANS-C01 on their first attempt report doing between 400 and 800 practice questions over 4–8 weeks of preparation. With 1,044+ questions in the Courseiva bank, you have more than enough material to build that repetition without seeing the same question twice.
Answer each question to reveal the full explanation and correct answer. This starter set is drawn from all 4 exam domains in blueprint proportion. Use the session selector to start a longer focused practice run.
A company uses AWS Direct Connect with a private VIF to connect to a VPC. The network team wants to monitor the bandwidth utilization of the Direct Connect connection in real time. Which AWS service should be used?
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A company is using AWS Client VPN for remote access. Users can authenticate and establish a VPN connection, but they cannot access resources in the VPC. The Client VPN endpoint is associated with a subnet in the VPC. The security group for the Client VPN endpoint allows all traffic. What is the most likely cause?
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A company is using AWS Direct Connect to connect its on-premises data center to AWS. The network team wants to monitor the latency and packet loss on the Direct Connect virtual interfaces. Which AWS service should be used to measure these metrics?
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A network engineer is troubleshooting a Site-to-Site VPN connection between an on-premises network and AWS. The VPN tunnel is up, but traffic is not flowing from the on-premises network to a VPC. The VPC has a virtual private gateway attached, and the route table has a route pointing to the virtual private gateway for the on-premises CIDR (192.168.0.0/16). The on-premises firewall shows that traffic is being sent to the VPN tunnel. What should the engineer check next?
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A company has a VPC with public and private subnets. An application running in a private subnet needs to access an S3 bucket to read and write data. The security team wants to ensure that traffic to S3 does not traverse the internet. Which solution should the team implement?
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A company's security team notices that a VPC flow log record shows an outbound connection from a private EC2 instance to an IP address in a restricted country. The security group allows outbound 0.0.0.0/0 for TCP 443. The network ACL allows outbound traffic to 0.0.0.0/0 on ephemeral ports. The company uses AWS Network Firewall with a firewall policy that has a stateful rule group that denies traffic to the restricted country. The flow log shows the traffic was accepted. What is the most likely cause?
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A company wants to block inbound SSH traffic to all EC2 instances in a VPC while allowing all other traffic. Which security group rule should be configured?
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A company wants to audit all changes to security groups in their AWS account. They need to be notified whenever a security group rule is added, modified, or removed. They also want to see who made the change. Which solution should they implement?
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A company wants to allow its employees to securely access internal applications hosted in a VPC without traversing the internet. The company also wants to be able to enforce security policies at the user level. Which AWS service should the company use?
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A company is deploying a critical application across multiple AWS accounts. The network team wants to simplify IP address management and ensure that VPCs in different accounts can communicate securely. The company has a centralized network account with a transit gateway. Which architecture should the company use?
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A company is designing a network for a multi-tier application. The web tier must be accessible from the internet, the application tier must be accessible only from the web tier, and the database tier must be accessible only from the application tier. Which architecture meets these requirements?
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A startup is launching a new web application on AWS and needs to design a highly available and secure network architecture. The application will run on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones in a single region. The application must be accessible from the internet over HTTPS. The company expects variable traffic and wants to reduce costs where possible. They also need to protect against common web exploits like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Which combination of AWS services should be used for the network design?
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A financial services company is designing a hybrid network architecture using AWS Direct Connect. They have a Direct Connect connection with a public VIF and a private VIF. The private VIF is associated with a Direct Connect gateway that is attached to a Transit Gateway in us-east-1. The Transit Gateway has attachments to a production VPC and a shared services VPC. The company wants to ensure that all traffic from the on-premises network to the production VPC flows through a centralized inspection appliance in the shared services VPC for security compliance. Additionally, traffic from the production VPC to the internet must use a NAT gateway in the shared services VPC. The inspection appliance in the shared services VPC performs stateful inspection and must see both directions of traffic. The network engineer configured the following route tables: In the Transit Gateway route table associated with the Direct Connect gateway attachment, a static route for 0.0.0.0/0 points to the shared services VPC attachment. In the Transit Gateway route table associated with the production VPC attachment, a static route for the on-premises CIDR (10.0.0.0/8) points to the shared services VPC attachment. In the Transit Gateway route table associated with the shared services VPC attachment, a static route for the on-premises CIDR points to the Direct Connect gateway attachment, and a static route for 0.0.0.0/0 points to the Direct Connect gateway attachment (for outbound internet traffic, the shared services VPC has its own internet gateway and NAT gateway). The production VPC has a default route (0.0.0.0/0) pointing to the Transit Gateway. The shared services VPC has a default route pointing to the NAT gateway. However, traffic from on-premises to the production VPC is not being inspected; it goes directly to the production VPC. What is the most likely reason?
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A company is deploying a global web application that will be accessed by users in North America, Europe, and Asia. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in three AWS Regions: us-east-1, eu-west-1, and ap-southeast-1. The company wants to provide a single global anycast IP address that routes users to the closest healthy endpoint based on latency, and must ensure that if an entire Region becomes unavailable, traffic is automatically redirected to the next closest Region. The solution must also support WebSocket connections. Which AWS service should the network engineer use to meet these requirements?
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A company is setting up a Direct Connect connection between its on-premises data center and AWS. The company wants to use a single virtual interface (VIF) to access multiple VPCs in the same AWS Region. Which AWS service should be used to achieve this?
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Refer to the exhibit. A flow log record shows ACCEPT for traffic from 10.0.1.5 to 10.0.2.10 on port 443. Which AWS service is most likely the destination?
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A company has a VPC with multiple subnets across three Availability Zones. They are deploying an NFS file system using Amazon EFS. They need high availability and low latency from all subnets. Which EFS deployment option meets these requirements?
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A company is deploying a VPC with both public and private subnets. They have an EC2 instance in a private subnet that needs to access the internet for software updates. Which AWS service should be placed in a public subnet to enable this?
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A network engineer is troubleshooting connectivity between an EC2 instance in a VPC and an on-premises server connected via AWS Site-to-Site VPN. The ping from the EC2 instance to the on-premises server fails. The VPN tunnel status shows 'UP'. Which configuration should the engineer check first?
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A company has a VPC with a public subnet and a private subnet. An EC2 instance in the private subnet needs to download patches from an S3 bucket. The company wants to minimize data transfer costs and avoid traversing the internet. Which solution should be implemented?
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A structured study plan dramatically increases your chances of passing ANS-C01 on the first attempt. The most effective approach combines reading the official Amazon Web Services documentation or a study guide, watching video explanations for difficult concepts, and then reinforcing everything with daily practice questions.
We recommend the following weekly structure for ANS-C01 preparation:
Cover each ANS-C01 domain systematically. Read the exam objectives, watch explanatory content, and do 10–20 practice questions per domain to test understanding as you go.
Run full 50–60 question mixed sessions daily. Review every wrong answer in detail. Identify which domains are consistently scoring below 70% and revisit those study materials.
Do 100–120 question timed sessions to simulate real exam conditions. Aim for consistent scores above 80% before booking your exam date. A score above 80% in practice typically translates to a passing ANS-C01 score.
On exam day, the ANS-C01 tests your ability to apply knowledge to realistic scenarios — not just recall definitions. This is why reading explanations and understanding the reasoning behind every answer matters more than simply grinding question volume. Use the high-count sessions (100, 120) in the final weeks as your confidence benchmark.
Questions
65
On the real exam
Time limit
170 min
2.6 min per question
Passing score
750/1000
Scaled scoring
The ANS-C01 exam uses a scaled scoring system — your raw score of correct answers is converted to a score out of 1000. A passing score of 750/1000 does not mean you need 75% of questions correct; the conversion accounts for question difficulty. Consistently scoring above 75–80% on practice tests puts you in a strong position to achieve 750/1000 on the real exam.
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Every question is written against the official ANS-C01 exam blueprint published by Amazon Web Services. Our questions follow the same wording style, scenario complexity, and answer structure as the actual exam. They are original questions — not brain dumps — so you learn the underlying concepts and reasoning, not just memorised answers. Candidates who study with brain dumps often pass but have no transferable knowledge; Courseiva questions make you genuinely competent.
Most candidates who pass ANS-C01 on their first attempt do 30–60 questions per day. Use the Quick 10 session for daily warm-ups when you are short on time. On study days, run a 50 or 60-question session to build stamina. Reserve 100 and 120-question sessions for the final two weeks when you want to simulate real exam conditions and benchmark your readiness.
The ANS-C01 covers 4 domains: Network Management and Operations (20%), Network Security, Compliance and Governance (24%), Network Design (30%), Network Implementation (26%). Each domain carries a different weight, so allocate your study time accordingly. The highest-weighted domains — Network Design and Network Implementation — should receive the most attention.
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