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Scenario practice questions

Practise AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty ANS-C01 Scenario practice questions — original exam-style scenarios with answer choices, explanations, and analysis of common mistakes.

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Reviewed byJohnson Ajibi· MSc IT Security
8 questionsDomain: Scenario

What the exam tests

What to know about Scenario

Scenario questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

Watch out for

Common Scenario exam traps

  • Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
  • Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
  • Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
  • Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

Practice set

Scenario questions

8 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

Question 1mediummultiple choice
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A network engineer is troubleshooting an issue where an AWS Lambda function cannot create an Elastic Network Interface (ENI) in a VPC. The function has the IAM policy shown in the exhibit. Which statement explains why the function is failing?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:AttachNetworkInterface"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateVpc",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 2mediummultiple choice
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A company has a VPC with a CIDR block of 172.16.0.0/16. They have two subnets: 172.16.1.0/24 (public) and 172.16.2.0/24 (private). They launch an EC2 instance in the private subnet and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the public subnet. The ALB needs to forward traffic to the EC2 instance on port 80. The security group for the EC2 instance allows inbound traffic on port 80 from the security group of the ALB. The ALB health checks are failing. What is the most likely cause?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A company uses AWS Direct Connect with a private VIF to access a VPC. They also have a site-to-site VPN as backup. They notice that during Direct Connect maintenance, the VPN does not take over traffic as expected. All routes are advertised over BGP. What is the most likely reason?

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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A company has a Direct Connect connection with a private VIF to a VPC. The on-premises network uses BGP to advertise its prefixes. Recently, the on-premises router started advertising a more specific route (10.0.0.0/24) that overlaps with the VPC's CIDR (10.0.0.0/16). What is the impact on traffic destined to 10.0.0.5?

Question 5easymultiple choice
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A network engineer is setting up a Direct Connect connection from an on-premises data center to AWS. The connection uses a private VIF to connect to a VPC via a Direct Connect gateway. The on-premises network is advertising a BGP prefix 10.0.0.0/16, which overlaps with the VPC CIDR 10.0.0.0/16. What is the expected behavior?

Question 6hardmultiple choice
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A company has a Direct Connect connection with a private VIF to a VPC. They also have a site-to-site VPN as a backup. The on-premises network advertises the same prefix via BGP over both connections. The company wants to prefer the Direct Connect path. What configuration achieves this?

Question 7hardmulti select
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Which TWO scenarios are best suited for using AWS Transit Gateway over VPC peering? (Select TWO.)

Question 8hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A Lambda function is attached to a VPC using the network interface eni-1234567890abcdef0. The Lambda function needs to send traffic to an on-premises server via a Direct Connect connection. The traffic is failing. Which setting on the network interface is most likely causing the issue?

Network Topology
$ aws ec2 describe-network-interfacesnetwork-interface-ids eni-1234567890abcdef0Refer to the exhibit.```"NetworkInterfaces": ["NetworkInterfaceId": "eni-1234567890abcdef0","Description": "AWS Lambda VPC attachment","PrivateIpAddresses": [{"PrivateIpAddress": "10.0.1.10", "Primary": true},{"PrivateIpAddress": "10.0.1.11", "Primary": false}],"Groups": [{"GroupId": "sg-12345678", "GroupName": "lambda-sg"}"SubnetId": "subnet-12345678","VpcId": "vpc-12345678","SourceDestCheck": true

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Frequently asked questions

What does the ANS-C01 exam test about Scenario?
Scenario questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.
How should I use these practice questions?
Select your answer before revealing the explanation. Then read why each option is right or wrong — this active recall approach builds retention far faster than re-reading notes.
Can I practise just Scenario questions in a focused session?
Yes — the session launcher on this page draws every question from the Scenario domain. Use a 10-question session first to gauge your baseline, then move to 20 or 30 once the weak spots are clear.
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