CNX-001

About This Exam

CNX-001 is the exam for the CompTIA CloudNetX certification, an expert-level certification in CompTIA's Xpert Series. It validates the ability to design network architectures, covering IP addressing, routing, NAT and protocols, mesh, star and spine-and-leaf topologies, hybrid connectivity with VPNs, SD-WAN, MPLS and dedicated public cloud connections, high availability through load balancing, redundancy, autoscaling and CDNs, and campus power, environmental and physical access factors; to secure hybrid networks with firewalls, security groups, URL filtering, encryption and network access control, zero trust with ZTNA, SASE, microsegmentation and CASB, identity and access management with SSO, MFA, PKI and privileged access management, and wireless security; to troubleshoot DNS, VPN and cloud interconnectivity problems, latency, load balancing and packet loss, and firewall, unauthorized access and hybrid vulnerability issues; and to run network operations with risk management, business continuity and service delivery, monitoring through metrics, dashboards, logging and alerting, and automation with infrastructure as code and scripting. It is for senior network engineers, network architects, security architects and enterprise architects with around ten years of IT experience, five of them designing networks, who build and run hybrid cloud networks.