ACE: L5 Professional - Automation

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ACE: L5 Professional - Automation Pass Rate

ACE-L5-AUT

The score you need to pass the ACE: L5 Professional - Automation certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

80% to pass
120 questions
2/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Our pass-mark benchmark
80%
Not published by Arista
Margin
20%
room for wrong answers, on a flat mock
Wrong answers allowed
24
out of 120 questions

Pass score vs pass rate

Two different numbers that get mixed up constantly.

Pass score (cut score)

The scaled score the vendor publishes. For the ACE: L5 Professional - Automation it is 80%. This is the number you can actually prepare against, and it is the one that decides your result on exam day.

Pass rate (percentage of candidates)

The share of candidates who pass. Arista generally does not publish this for individual exams, and the numbers you find online usually come from candidate self-reported surveys. We would rather tell you nothing than tell you a figure we cannot source.

Where you lose points

The exam is not scored flat. Each domain carries its own weight, so a domain where you lose everything can sink a score that looks fine on paper.

Arista EOS Automation25%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 25% of the exam, and it has 30 practice questions here.

Network Programmability20%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 20% of the exam, and it has 24 practice questions here.

Automation Workflows and CI/CD20%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 20% of the exam, and it has 24 practice questions here.

Troubleshooting and Optimization15%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 15% of the exam, and it has 18 practice questions here.

Automation Fundamentals and Tools20%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 20% of the exam, and it has 24 practice questions here.

About these numbers: Arista does not publish a numeric cut score for the ACE: L5 Professional - Automation, so the figure above is Certilum's own benchmark rather than an official threshold. We would rather show you that than present an invented percentage as fact.

The practical version: the ACE: L5 Professional - Automation is not passed by knowing most of the content. It is passed by being strong in the domains that carry weight, and by not leaving one of them empty.

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