Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) R82

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Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) R82 Pass Rate

156-215.82

The score you need to pass the Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) R82 certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

70% to pass
100 questions
2.1/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Our pass-mark benchmark
70%
Not published by Check Point
Margin
30%
room for wrong answers, on a flat mock
Wrong answers allowed
30
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 Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) R82 it is 70%. 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. Check Point 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.

VPN10%

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

Troubleshooting5%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 5% of the exam, and it has 5 practice questions here.

User Management5%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 5% of the exam, and it has 5 practice questions here.

High Availability8%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 8% of the exam, and it has 8 practice questions here.

Policy Management12%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 12% of the exam, and it has 12 practice questions here.

Security Gateways12%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 12% of the exam, and it has 12 practice questions here.

Threat Prevention8%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 8% of the exam, and it has 8 practice questions here.

Security Management15%

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

Monitoring and Reporting10%

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

Installation and Configuration15%

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

About these numbers: Check Point does not publish a numeric cut score for the Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) R82, 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 Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) R82 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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