Cisco Enterprise Advanced Routing and Services (ENARSI)

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Cisco Enterprise Advanced Routing and Services (ENARSI) Exam Format

300-410

Everything the official exam blueprint specifies: question count, time limit, scoring and the weight each domain carries. Cisco Enterprise Advanced Routing and Services (ENARSI) is the concentration exam for the CCNP Enterprise certification and for the Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation. It validates the knowledge and skills required to configure, verify, troubleshoot, and optimize enterprise network environments that use advanced routing protocols and VPN technologies. Candidates are expected to understand routing protocol redistribution, route filtering, route summarization, BGP path manipulation, MPLS LDP, VRFs, and policy-based routing. The exam also covers DMVPN, IPsec, and FlexVPN implementations; infrastructure security mechanisms such as ACLs, uRPF, CoPP, AAA, and IPv6 First Hop Security; and infrastructure services including DHCP, QoS, NetFlow, SNMP, syslog, Embedded Event Manager, IP SLA, and object tracking. The exam uses scenario-based questions that emphasize real-world troubleshooting and operational decision making. Passing the exam demonstrates that an engineer can handle complex routing challenges, secure both the control plane and the data plane, and ensure reliable delivery of network services. It is optimized for professionals who already have CCNA-level knowledge and who want to advance their careers as senior network engineers, implementation engineers, and network architects.

60 questions
90 min
82% to pass
4 domains

Exam facts at a glance

The published specifications for this certification.

SpecificationValue
Questions60
Time limit90 minutes (90s per question)
Passing score82% — Not published by the provider (Cisco does not publish the cut score in advance; score reports show the passing score per exam)
Domains4
LevelProfessional
Question bank here60 questions
Published format"Implementing Cisco Enterprise Advanced Routing and Services (300-410 ENARSI) v1.1 is a 90-minute exam"; official fields list Duration: 90 minutes and Languages: English, Japanese. Question count is Not published by the provider; official Learning Network exam-topics page states question types are "a variety of formats, including performance-based questions, multiple choice, and drag-and-drop". Grading is pass/fail with results available online within 48 hours.
SourceOfficial exam specification, published by the vendor

Official domain weights

The percentage of the exam each domain carries. Weight your revision by these numbers, not by what you find hardest.

DomainWeightTopicsPractice Qs
VPN Technologies20%
  • Implement and verify Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN), including hub-to-spoke, spoke-to-spoke, pre-shared key, and certificate-based authentication.
  • Implement and verify IPsec, including site-to-site, GRE tunnel, and Virtual Tunnel Interface (VTI).
  • Implement and verify FlexVPN, including IKEv2, pre-shared key, and certificate-based authentication.
12
Layer 3 Technologies35%
  • Compare and implement EIGRP, including neighbor adjacencies, path selection, loop prevention, route filtering, route summarization, and redistribution.
  • Compare and implement OSPFv2 and OSPFv3, including neighbor adjacencies, path selection, loop prevention, route filtering, route summarization, and redistribution.
  • Implement and verify BGP for enterprise networks, including path selection, neighbor relationships, route filtering, route summarization, and redistribution.
  • +4 more
21
Infrastructure Security20%
  • Implement and verify IPv4 and IPv6 access control lists.
  • Implement and verify Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF).
  • Implement and verify Control Plane Policing (CoPP).
  • +2 more
12
Infrastructure Services25%
  • Implement and verify DHCP, including server, relay, client, and options.
  • Implement and verify QoS, including classification, marking, shaping, policing, and queuing.
  • Implement and verify network monitoring using NetFlow, SNMP, and syslog.
  • +3 more
15

The heaviest domain is VPN Technologies at 20%, and that is where lost points cost you the most. Certilum scores you per domain so you can see the difference between a knowledge gap and a formatting problem.

Note from the vendor record: Active, current version v1.1 (v1.0 last date to test 19 September 2023; v1.1 first date to test 20 September 2023 per Cisco's official Certification Exam Topics page; a July 2025 v1.1 blueprint PDF is the current published exam topics). It is a CCNP Enterprise concentration exam: passing it earns Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation, and CCNP Enterprise requires this plus the 350-401 ENCOR core exam (Prerequisites listed as None on the exam page - the ENCOR core requirement is a certification, not exam, prerequisite). Recertification: valid 3 years, renewal via Continuing Education credits or by retaking exams; results within 48 hours. Caveat: legacy-style cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/... exam URLs (e.g. .../exams/current/300-410-enarsi.html) return 404 (verified); no retirement announcement found on official pages. Official exam page

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