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Standardize your team on CloudNetX with a structured CompTIA training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Practice exam
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Core skills
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Exam fee (CompTIA)
IT operations team at help desk workstations with ticket queues and network diagrams
Difficulty
Difficulty: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam fee (CompTIA)
$544
Courses on path
1
Official source
CompTIA’s official exam page
Exam code
  • CNX-001

Exam datasheet

Format
Mix of multiple-choice and performance-based questions
Prerequisites
No official prerequisites
Recommended experience
At least 10 years of IT experience, including 5 years in a network architect role, with hybrid cloud environments and foundational knowledge equivalent to Network+, Security+, and Cloud+
Recertification
3 years
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Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$544

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the CloudNetX path takes CNX-001.

  1. CNX-001CompTIA CloudNetXPractice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $544
    Exam length
    Maximum of 165 minutes
    Questions
    Maximum of 90
    Passing score
    Pass/fail only; no scaled score

    Exam blueprint: CNX-001

Skills your team builds

Network architecture designCore networking conceptsHybrid connectivityAvailability solutionsNetwork securityThreats and mitigationsSecurity technologiesZero TrustIAM solutionsNetwork operationsMonitoring toolsNetwork troubleshooting

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full CloudNetX path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    CompTIA CloudNetX (CNX-001)

    Hybrid and multi-cloud growth puts network teams in a difficult spot. When connectivity, routing, failover, and access controls are designed in isolation, cloud network changes can cause outages and security gaps. This CompTIA CloudNetX (CNX-001) course gives IT Directors a way to build one shared design and troubleshooting standard across network and cloud engineers. Across 39 skills, learners cover VPC/VNet architecture, subnetting and hybrid IP addressing, hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity, transit and hub-and-spoke topologies, and load balancing. They also study DNS, DR networking, segmentation, encrypted connectivity, cloud firewalls, and Zero Trust networking. The course stresses documenting baselines and proving that traffic actually flows, not just that a tunnel shows "up." Its implementation work includes an AWS site-to-site VPN with a customer-managed gateway. The course closes with operations. Learners practice traffic logging, health monitoring, and structured troubleshooting of routing symmetry, addressing, application access, and security misconfigurations. They also cover performance optimization and automation drift. At about 34 hours per learner, the course fits a CNX-001 certification push or a standardization effort ahead of a migration or architecture change. Training Managers can use CBT Nuggets Playlists to assign the right sequence and Team Reporting to track completion across the team.

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Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

CompTIA career ladder

Where CloudNetX sits in your team's CompTIA progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Entry level

    2 certs

    A+

    Core 1: 220-1201, Core 2: 220 …

    Tech+

    FC0-U71

  2. Associate level

    4 certs

    Data+

    DA0-002

    Network+

    N10-009

    Project+

    PK0-005

    Security+

    SY0-701

  3. Professional level

    5 certs

    AutoOps+

    AT0-001

    Cloud+

    CV0-004

    CySA+

    CS0-004

    Pentest+

    PT0-003

    Server+

    SK0-005

  4. Expert level

    3 certs

    CloudNetX

    CNX-001

    You are here

    DataAI

    DY0-001

    SecurityX

    CAS-005

Customer outcome

Build CNX-001 capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the CloudNetX course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see CompTIA skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make CNX-001 a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on CNX-001 gives leadership a clear picture of CompTIA skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: CloudNetX

Exam
  • CNX-001

Frequently asked questions about CloudNetX training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating CloudNetX training for their team.

How does CloudNetX fit into our compliance or governance program?

IT leaders often cite CloudNetX when documenting that the engineers who design hybrid and multi-cloud networks hold a vendor-issued, expert-level credential for that work. CBT Nuggets team reporting adds per-learner progress, completion and completion exports that can serve as training evidence, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential formally maps to any framework.

Who on the team should hold CloudNetX, and what can a certified team own?

CloudNetX suits the senior network engineers and architects who own cloud network design, from analyzing requirements and workload communication patterns to building VPC/VNet architectures, subnetting and hybrid IP addressing plans. A certified team can take ownership of hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity, transit and hub-and-spoke topologies, segmentation, highly available network foundations, load balancing and DNS for cloud networks.

What does CBT Nuggets CloudNetX training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets CloudNetX courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to CompTIA's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track CloudNetX training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the CloudNetX courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on CloudNetX?

The linked CompTIA CloudNetX (CNX-001) training runs about 34 hours of video across the linked live courses. Actual time to certify depends on each engineer's starting point in cloud and hybrid network design, so IT leaders typically assign the course with a target date and track completion per learner in team reporting.

What if CompTIA updates the CloudNetX exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates CompTIA course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When CompTIA restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

Ready to CloudNetX-certify your team?

Build CloudNetX capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track CloudNetX training across the team — a practice exam and reporting included.

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