Cisco · Official Blueprint · Last reviewed May 2026
The official Cisco 350-401 exam covers 39 domains. Domain weights tell you exactly how much of the exam each topic represents — and where to invest your study time.
Azure regions, availability zones, the management hierarchy (Management Group → Subscription → Resource Group → Resource), and core services including compute, storage, networking, and databases.
Practice Architecture questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Enterprise Network Design domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Enterprise Network Design questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the SD-Access Architecture domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice SD-Access Architecture questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the SD-WAN Architecture domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice SD-WAN Architecture questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the QoS Architecture domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice QoS Architecture questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Virtualization domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Virtualization questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Network Function Virtualization domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Network Function Virtualization questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Virtual Machines and Hypervisors domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Virtual Machines and Hypervisors questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the VRF and Path Isolation domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice VRF and Path Isolation questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Infrastructure domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Infrastructure questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the OSPF domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice OSPF questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the BGP domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice BGP questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the EIGRP domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice EIGRP questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the VLANs and Trunking domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice VLANs and Trunking questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Spanning Tree Protocol domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Spanning Tree Protocol questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the EtherChannel domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice EtherChannel questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Wireless Infrastructure domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Wireless Infrastructure questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the MPLS domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice MPLS questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the WAN Technologies domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice WAN Technologies questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the NAT and DHCP domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice NAT and DHCP questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the IP Multicast domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice IP Multicast questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the QoS domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice QoS questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Network Assurance domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Network Assurance questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the SNMP and Syslog domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice SNMP and Syslog questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the NetFlow and Telemetry domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice NetFlow and Telemetry questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the SPAN and RSPAN domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice SPAN and RSPAN questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the IP SLA domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice IP SLA questionsSecurity controls (technical, managerial, operational), cryptography fundamentals, PKI, authentication protocols, and core security principles.
Practice Security questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the AAA, RADIUS, and TACACS+ domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice AAA, RADIUS, and TACACS+ questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the ACLs and CoPP domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice ACLs and CoPP questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the 802.1X and TrustSec domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice 802.1X and TrustSec questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the VPN Technologies domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice VPN Technologies questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Infrastructure Security domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Infrastructure Security questionsController-based networking, REST APIs, JSON data structures, Cisco DNA Center basics, and the differences between traditional vs software-defined networking.
Practice Automation questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Python for Network Automation domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Python for Network Automation questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Ansible Automation domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Ansible Automation questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the REST APIs and Data Models domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice REST APIs and Data Models questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Cisco DNA Center domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Cisco DNA Center questionsCovers the topics, concepts, and applied skills examined under the Model-Driven Telemetry domain. Study the official exam objectives and practise questions in this area to build confidence and accuracy before your exam.
Practice Model-Driven Telemetry questionsThe heaviest domain on the 350-401 is "Infrastructure" at 30%. Start here and return to it regularly.
Allocate study time proportional to domain weight — a 25% domain deserves roughly 25% of your prep hours.
Never skip a low-weight domain. A 10% domain still represents 5–7 exam questions — enough to make the difference between pass and fail.
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