From the course: AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty (ANS-C01) Cert Prep

AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty (ANS-C01) exam overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty (ANS-C01) Cert Prep

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AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty (ANS-C01) exam overview

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- [Instructor] The AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty Certification Exam validates various skills which are necessary to become a full-fledged network specialist for cloud systems. This exam is intended for IT professionals who perform an AWS networking specialist role in their respective organizations. Your ability to design, implement, manage, and secure AWS workloads will be heavily tested for the certification exam, as well as your skill in building hybrid network architectures at scale. The AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty Test has no prerequisites, so anyone can take it without having any prior certification in AWS, but ideally, you should have five or more years of networking experience, with two or more years in cloud and hybrid networking. IT professionals who are planning to take this exam should have ample AWS knowledge, such as the AWS networking nuances and how they relate to the integration of AWS services, security best practices in the AWS cloud, compute and storage options in AWS, and their underlying consistency models. This exam validates a candidate's ability to complete the following tasks: design and develop hybrid and cloud-based networking solutions by using AWS. Implement core AWS networking services according to AWS best practices. Operate and maintain hybrid and cloud-based network architecture for all AWS services. Use tools to deploy and automate hybrid and cloud-based AWS networking tasks. Implement secure AWS networks using AWS native networking constructs and services. Before we discuss the details of this exam, it's important to know the history of this certification test to better understand the changes it entails. We will go back in time and rediscover the history of the AWS Advanced Networking Specialty Exam and other exam-related information. Amazon Web Services started its Global Certification Program in 2013, and the primary purpose of this initiative is to validate the necessary technical skills and knowledge of individuals that are required for building secure and reliable cloud-based applications in AWS. Tech professionals can prove their expertise and knowledge in AWS to their current employers or even to their prospective companies they wish to apply for by passing the AWS certification exam. The first-ever AWS certification is the AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate, which was launched in April 2013. This is followed by the two Associate-level AWS certification exams, namely the AWS Certified Developer Associate and AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Exams. AWS later unveiled the Foundational, Professional, and Specialty-level certifications in an effort to expand its certification program and continuously new updates. These Professional and Specialty-level exams have covered various domains, namely monitoring, security, SDLC, infrastructure as code, data analytics, advanced Networking, machine learning, and many others. There are a bunch of new and updated versions of AWS certification exams that are released on a regular basis to include the new services offered by AWS and as well as to incorporate the new knowledge areas. The first two Pro-level exams are the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Certification Tests. The first version of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Exam was released in May 2014 and was followed by the first version of the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Test on February 2015. After two years, AWS introduced its lineup of Specialty-level exams. The first-ever version of the AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty Test was launched on May 2017, with an exam code of ANS-C00. The now-retired AWS certified Big Data Specialty Exam was also launched on the same time, but was later discontinued seven years after. On July 2022, an updated version of the AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty Exam was launched. The new iteration has an exam code of ANS-C01. AWS is always releasing new networking services, and it's possible that a new version of this exam will be released soon, with an exam code of ANS-C02 in the near future. The exam is composed of 65 scenario-based questions that can either be in multiple choice or multiple-response formats, with a time limit of two hours and 50 minutes. The first question type has one correct answer and three incorrect responses, while the latter has two or more correct responses out of five or more options. You can get a score from 100 to 1,000, with a minimum passing score of 750. When you take the AWS Advanced Networking Exam, AWS uses a scaled scoring model to equate scores across multiple exam types that may have different difficulty levels. There is a total of 65 questions in this exam, which includes 50 questions that affect your score. The other 15 questions are unscored and do not affect your overall score in the test. AWS has this internal system that collects information about performance on these unscored questions to evaluate these questions for future use as scored questions. Take note that these unscored questions are not identified on the exam. The complete score report will be sent to you by email after a few days. Right after you complete the actual exam, you'll immediately see a pass or fail notification on the testing screen. You can take the exam from a local testing center or online from the comfort of your home. Within a week of completing your exam, your AWS certification account will have a record of your complete exam results. The score report contains a table of your performance at each section domain, which indicates whether you met the competency level required for these domains or not. In the exam, a compensatory scoring model is used, which means that you do not necessarily need to pass each and every individual section, only the overall examination. Each section has a specific score rating that translates to the number of questions. Hence, some sections have more questions than others. The Score Performance table highlights your strengths and weaknesses that you need to improve on.

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