About This Study Plan
This 7-day study plan breaks the ANS-C01 (AWS Advanced Networking Specialty) exam preparation into 7 focused study sessions with a total of 28 actionable tasks. The plan covers all 4 exam domains — Network Design, Network Implementation, Network Management & Operations, Network Security & Compliance — ensuring complete coverage of the exam blueprint. An intensive one-week study plan for experienced network engineers who want a focused review of AWS Advanced Networking topics.
Prerequisites
- Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, routing)
- Hands-on experience with AWS VPC, Direct Connect, or VPN
- 5–6 hours of study time per day
Study Schedule
- VPC CIDR planning, subnets, route tables, endpoints
- Transit Gateway route tables, attachments, isolation
- Multi-VPC patterns: peering, TGW, PrivateLink
- Practice: 40 network design questions
- Dedicated vs hosted connections, VIF types
- Direct Connect Gateway, LAGs, redundancy patterns
- Site-to-Site VPN, accelerated VPN, BGP routing
- Practice: 40 network implementation questions
- Route 53 routing policies, health checks, DNSSEC
- Hybrid DNS with Resolver endpoints and forwarding rules
- CloudFront, Global Accelerator, origin access
- Practice: 40 mixed questions
- Security groups, NACLs, Network Firewall, GWLB
- WAF rules, Shield Advanced, DDoS mitigation
- Encryption: TLS, IPSec, MACsec, PrivateLink
- Practice: 40 network security questions
- VPC Flow Logs, Traffic Mirroring, Reachability Analyzer
- Troubleshooting: asymmetric routing, blackholes, MTU
- Centralized inspection architectures with TGW
- Practice: 40 network operations questions
- Placement groups, ENA, EFA, jumbo frames
- IPv6 dual-stack, IPAM, bandwidth optimization
- Multi-region networking patterns
- Practice: 40 mixed questions
- Take a full 65-question mock exam (170 min)
- Review all incorrect answers and explanations
- Revisit weak domains and cheat sheets
- Focus on Direct Connect and Transit Gateway scenarios
Study Tips
Direct Connect and Transit Gateway dominate this exam — know them cold
Practice drawing network diagrams for complex hybrid scenarios
Know BGP route preferences and failover behavior
Ready to Practice?
Put your study plan into action with AWS Advanced Networking Specialty practice questions.