Cisco Certified CyberOps Professional

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Cisco Certified CyberOps Professional Pass Rate

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The score you need to pass the Cisco Certified CyberOps Professional certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

83% to pass
100 questions
2.2/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Passing score
83%
Not published by the provider (Cisco does not publish the cut score in advance; score reports show the passing score per exam)
Margin
17%
room for wrong answers, on a flat mock
Wrong answers allowed
17
out of 100 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 Cisco Certified CyberOps Professional it is 83%. 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. Cisco 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.

Security Concepts10%

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

Security Operations20%

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

Security Engineering30%

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

Security Architecture20%

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

Vulnerability Management10%

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

Programmability and Automation10%

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

The practical version: the Cisco Certified CyberOps Professional 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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