The scope of the Cyber Essentials Plus must be the same as the Cyber Essentials scope.
It is up to you how you want to segregate your infrastructure and which divisions you would like to exclude. The excluded or included parts of the infrastructure must be segregated by some means, e.g. a firewall or a physical boundary.
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