Measured data
Cisco Certified Cybersecurity Associate (CyberOps)
We scored 100 real Cisco Certified Cybersecurity Associate (CyberOps) exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.
- 100 questions scored
- 5 domains
- 2.2/10 overall complexity
certilumComplexity by exam domain
Higher scores mean more demanding question formats. The exam score is computed over the whole bank, not averaged across domains.
- Access and Identity Management15 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
- Cryptography and PKI10 questions · complexity 2.1/10 · Gentle
30% multi-select · 10% scenario · 30% interactive
- Network Security25 questions · complexity 2.5/10 · Gentle
32% multi-select · 20% scenario · 32% interactive
- Security Concepts20 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
35% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive
- Security Operations and Monitoring30 questions · complexity 2.1/10 · Gentle
37% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
Full per-domain breakdown
Blueprint weight, bank size and question format mix for every domain of the exam.
| Domain | Blueprint | Questions | Single | Multi | Interactive | Complexity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access and Identity Management | 15% | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2.0/10Gentle |
| Cryptography and PKI | 10% | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2.1/10Gentle |
| Network Security | 25% | 25 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 2.5/10Gentle |
| Security Concepts | 20% | 20 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2.0/10Gentle |
| Security Operations and Monitoring | 30% | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 2.1/10Gentle |
How the score is calculated
The formula is fixed and public, so anyone can reproduce these numbers from the same bank.
Every question in the Cisco Certified Cybersecurity Associate (CyberOps) bank is measured on four signals that can be read directly from the database. Each signal is expressed as a share of the questions in the domain, and the four shares are combined with fixed weights:
- Multi-select questions (40% weight). Items with more than one correct answer. The candidate has to find all of them, which is the single hardest format in the bank.
- Scenario questions (30% weight). Questions longer than 150 characters, which describe a situation instead of a definition and therefore test reasoning rather than recall.
- Interactive questions (20% weight). Items that require reading code or a configuration snippet.
- Deep explanations (10% weight). Questions whose explanation runs past 300 characters, which signals a concept with real nuance behind it.
The combined share is multiplied by ten to produce a 1-10 score. The exam-level score is computed over the whole bank rather than averaged across domains, so a small domain cannot distort the total. Figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl.
Data set: Certilum Cisco Certified Cybersecurity Associate (CyberOps) Foundation question bank, 100 questions, 5 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official Cisco statistic.
- Questions analysed
- 100
- Exam domains
- 5
- Hardest domain
- Network Security (2.5)
- Most approachable domain
- Access and Identity Management (2.0)
- Question mix
- 35 single · 33 multi · 32 interactive
- Measured on
- Foundation
Frequently asked questions
What our Cisco Certified Cybersecurity Associate (CyberOps) complexity numbers mean and how they are produced.