AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

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AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty Pass Rate

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The score you need to pass the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

75% to pass
65 questions
2.2/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Passing score
75%
750/1,000 scaled score
Margin
25%
room for wrong answers, on a flat mock
Wrong answers allowed
16
out of 65 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 AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty it is 75%. 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. Amazon Web Services 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.

Network Design30%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 30% of the exam, and it has 20 practice questions here.

Network Implementation26%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 26% of the exam, and it has 17 practice questions here.

Network Management and Operations20%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 20% of the exam, and it has 13 practice questions here.

Network Automation and Optimization10%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 10% of the exam, and it has 6 practice questions here.

Network Security, Compliance, and Governance14%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 14.000000000000002% of the exam, and it has 9 practice questions here.

The practical version: the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty 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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