CCNP Enterprise

Pass rate

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CCNP Enterprise Pass Rate

350-401

The score you need to pass the CCNP Enterprise certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

83% to pass
100 questions
2.1/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Passing score
83%
Not published by the provider (the widely reported 825 of 1000 figure could not be verified on any official cisco.com page)
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 CCNP Enterprise 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.

Security15%

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

Automation15%

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

Architecture15%

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

Virtualization10%

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

Infrastructure30%

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

Network Assurance15%

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

The practical version: the CCNP Enterprise 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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