ACE Campus Operations Specialist
EXAM OVERVIEW
Arista Certified Engineer (ACE) Campus Operations Specialist – Level 3
This certification is a required milestone toward achieving the ACE Campus Professional – Level 5, validating your ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize wired and wireless campus networks using Arista CloudVision and CloudVision Unified Edge (CUE). Candidates demonstrate hands-on skills in network visibility, policy enforcement, automation, and operational troubleshooting across modern campus environments.
Introducing the All-New ACE Self-Service Certification Exams!
All ACE exams are remote, hands-on, and fully practical, with a strong focus on real-world CLI-based configuration and operational validation. Open book? Absolutely. Use your lab guides, notes, and configuration references just as you would in a production environment. Flexible, self-paced, and designed to assess real engineering skills—not memorization.
Exam Blue Print
Campus operations with CloudVision
CloudVision overview
- Why CloudVision
- Approaches to network automation
- Introduction to CloudVision
- CVP implementation options
CloudVision setup
- CVP clustering
- CVP Multi-node OVA installation
- CVaaS initial onboarding
- Upgrading CVP
- CVP backup and restore
- Getting familiar with CVP interface
- CVP profiles
- CVP help center
- License key management using CVP
CloudVision Provisioning
Device registration
- Connecting devices to CloudVision
- Manual onboarding
Network provisioning
- Containers
- Configuration sources
- Designed and running config
- Configlets
- Tasks and change control
- Applying configlets to containers
- Reconcile
- Snapshots and staging
- Redesigned change control UI
- Rollback
- Image repository
Zero touch provisioning
- Zero touch provisioning (ZTP)
- Deploying and onboarding vEOS to CVP suing ZTP
- Zero Touch replacement (ZTR)
- Replacing a device using ZTR
CloudVision Campus Studios
Studios overview
- Introduction to Studios and Tags
- Workspaces
- Studio deployment and execution
Studios in action
- New Studios UI
- Static configuring Studio
- Management connectivity Studio
- Software management Studio
- Authentication Studio
- Mirroring Studio
- Provisioning new devices with ZTP and Studios
Operating L2LS Campus network with CVP Studios
- Onboarding devices to Studios
- Configure L2LS network using Studios
- Configure access interfaces
- Submit workspace and execute change control
- Managing L2LS campus gateway connectivity with
- Studios
- Add a new VLAN to L2LS campus
- Modifying VLAN settings in L2LS campus
- Connecting new host to L2LS campus
Campus Zero Touch operations
- CloudVision Campus dashboard overview
- CloudVision Campus Day 1 – Onboarding
- CloudVision Campus Day 2 – Provisioning and
- Diagnostics
- CloudVision endpoint analyzer
Operating L3LS Campus network with CVP Studios
- Configuring L3LS Campus with CVP Studios
- Configuring L2LS Campus with VXLAN and eVPN using Studios
- Adding new access pods to L3LS Campus
- Adding new spines to L3LS Campus
- Adding new VRFs to L3LS Campus
- Add new VLANs to L3LS Campus
- Modifying VRF and VLAN settings for L3LS Campus
- Changing underlay protocol in L3LS Campus
- Connecting new hosts to L3LS Campus
Monitoring Campus with CVP
Monitoring devices with CVP
- Network hierarchy
- Compliance overview
- Device input power
- 802.1x details in endpoint search
Dashboards
- Dashboards overview
- Dashboards enhancements
- Device connectivity health panel dashboard
- Compliance counts dashboard
- Syslog filters dashboard
- Dashboard tabs layout
- Exporting and importing dashboards
Events
- Events overview
- Event groups
- Compliance events
- Config sanity check events
Topology
- Introduction to topology
- Topology icons and settings
- Custom topology hierarchies
- User defined topology filters
EOS Operations upgrades
EOS reloads and upgrades
- Understanding EOS upgrades
- Standard upgrade vs smart system upgrade
- Upgrading EOS with CLI
- Upgrading EOS with CVP
- MLAG ISSU upgrade and reload with CLI
- Chassis upgrade and reload
- MLAG upgrade and reload with CVP
EOS monitoring tools
- SNMP
- sFLow
- Watch and Diff commands
- Latency Analyzer (LANZ)
- Port mirroring
Advanced Event Management (AEM)
- AEM – CLI scheduler
- AEM – Event monitor
- AEM – Event manager
Troubleshooting EOS hardware and software
- System and software troubleshooting
- SFP and physical errors
- Arista EOS health checks – CLI and CVP
- Hardware troubleshooting
- Memory and flash errors
- Tcpdump and Iperf
- Installing extensions
- Recovery procedures
Managing Wireless operations
Introduction to CV-CUE
- Introducing CV-CUE
CV-CUE operations overview
- CV-CUE features overview
- Wired and wireless monitoring
- Auto Wi-Fi threat detection and prevention
- Auto network assurance
- Auto issue locationing
- Auto client connectivity troubleshooting
- Auto client and network performance issue troubleshooting
- Auto Application troubleshooting
Device firmware update in CV-CUE
- Hitless AP upgrades
CV-CUE AIOps
- Explore overview dashboard
- Analyze app experience using the overview dashboard
- Explore feed dashboard
- Perform operations with Cognitive maps
- Map view persona-based workflows
- Floor plan coverage and throughput SLA
Wi-Fi visibility with CV-CUE
- Reactive and proactive troubleshooting
- Monitor Wi-Fi with CUE dashboard
- Monitor clients with CUE
- Monitor Access Points and RFs with CUE
- Monitor Wi-Fi with Cognitive maps and alerts
- Proactive Wi-Fi monitoring with client connectivity test
- Monitor Wi-Fi with Map views and feed
- View and Compare configuration checkpoints
Wi-Fi visibility with CloudVision
- Monitor devices with CloudVision campus health dashboard
- Telemetry between CVP and CV-CUE
Troubleshoot Wi-Fi issues with CV-CUE
- Proactive network assurance
- Troubleshoot wrong PSK issue
- Troubleshoot RADIUS access reject issue
- Troubleshoot No DHCP IPv4 address issue
- Troubleshoot Low RSSI and low data rate issues
- Troubleshoot high retry rate issue
- Troubleshoot DNS failures IPv4 issue
- Troubleshot Rogue AP issue
- Day in the life of CV-CUE network operator
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q1. I currently hold Arista Certified Engineer (ACE) L3 Cloud Journey man. Willl this automatically converted to a new Arista Certification?
Your ACE L3 will be convereted to a new certification Arista Certified Engineer (ACE) Data Center Specialist as the old courses and certification were more focused on Data Center technologies.
Q2. How do you earn an ACE Professional Level certification (ACE-Level 5)
You must pass both the Operations Specialist exam and the Engineering Specialist exam within the same track (e.g., Data Center, Campus, Routing, Automation). Once both are completed, the Level 5 Professional certification is automatically awarded—there is no separate exam.
Q2. Can I enter the ACE program at a higher level?
Yes. Arista lets you attempt Specialist or higher-level exams aligned with your experience. However, those exams will test knowledge from the foundational levels upward