With a CyberOps Associate certification, you’ll prove your expertise in essential cybersecurity skills, concepts, and technologies, including understanding IT infrastructure, operations, and vulnerabilities.
Security concepts Demonstrate your knowledge of security terms like malware, threat hunting, and zero trust. Differentiate security concepts such as vulnerability and exploit.
Security monitoring Understand the technologies used to monitor cybersecurity. Be able to identify attacks on network, web application, social engineering, and endpoints.
Host-based analysis
Identify the endpoints and systems protected by cybersecurity. Attribute the sources of cyber attacks and analyze key evidence, like logs and reports.
Network intrusion analysis
Demonstrate your knowledge of troubleshooting techniques and analysis, including assessing event and alert impact, monitoring traffic, and interpreting regular expressions.
Prerequisites
No formal prerequisites
You should understand the exam topics before taking the exam—and develop a strategy for how you’re going to master them.
Common learner profiles
New or aspiring IT professionals who want to specialize in cybersecurity
Experienced IT professionals who want to prove their skills with Cisco and Cisco-adjacent cybersecurity technologies
Recommended training for this certification
Exams
- 200-201 (CBROPS v1.2)
Exam basics
- Exams are delivered in a secure environment by proctors, either online or at testing centers.
- Grading is pass/fail, and your results are available online, usually within 48 hours.
- Exams are available worldwide in English, and some are available in additional languages.