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CC – Certified in Cybersecurity

Standardize your team on CC – Certified in Cybersecurity with a structured ISC2 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 (ISC2)
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Difficulty
Difficulty: 1 of 5 (Easy)
Easy
Exam fee (ISC2)
$200
Courses on path
1
Official source
ISC2’s official exam page
Exam code
  • CC

Exam datasheet

Format
Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT); multiple choice and advanced item types
Prerequisites
No work experience required
Recommended experience
0-3 years
Recertification
3 years
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$200

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the CC – Certified in Cybersecurity path takes CC.

  1. CCCertified in Cybersecurity (CC)Practice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $200
    Exam length
    2 hours
    Questions
    100-125
    Passing score
    700 out of 1000 points

    Exam blueprint: CC

Skills your team builds

Security PrinciplesSecurity GovernanceIdentity and Access Management (IAM) ConceptsNetworking and Cloud Security ConceptsSecurity Operations and Incident ResponseRisk management conceptsGovernanceRiskand Compliance (GRC)Business Continuity (BC)Disaster Recovery (DR)Access controls conceptsNetwork securityCloud security

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full CC – Certified in Cybersecurity path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity​

    This ISC2 CC - Certified in Cybersecurity course is designed to lay the foundation for a professional cybersecurity career, and help you study for your ISC2 CC certification. You'll learn to understand the ethical and risk-based frameworks that define the industry, then dive into business continuity and incident response to learn how organizations survive and recover from disruption. From there, you'll explore cybersecurity topics such as access control and network security, and understand the mechanics of protecting digital borders and managing identities. Finally, you'll explore security operations for real-world system defense. To make sure you're ready for exam day, the course includes unlimited ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity practice exams to build your confidence and reinforce skills.

    Bob Salmans
    66 videosPractice exam9h
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Every certification course includes

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

ISC2 career ladder

Where CC – Certified in Cybersecurity sits in your team's ISC2 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

    1 cert

    CC – Certified in Cybersecurity

    CC

    You are here

  2. Associate level

    1 cert

    SSCP – Systems Security Certified Practitioner

    SSCP

  3. Professional level

    2 certs

    CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional

    CCSP

    CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional

    CISSP

Customer outcome

Build CC capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the CC – Certified in Cybersecurity 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 ISC2 skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

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

Standardizing your team on CC gives leadership a clear picture of ISC2 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: CC – Certified in Cybersecurity

Exam
  • CC

Frequently asked questions about CC – Certified in Cybersecurity training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating CC – Certified in Cybersecurity training for their team.

How does CC – Certified in Cybersecurity fit into our security governance and compliance program?

Teams often cite CC when documenting that staff have foundational training in risk management, security controls, ethics, governance and security policies. Team reporting provides per-learner completion and completion exports that can serve as training evidence, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides the formal mapping to any framework the organization follows.

Who on the team should hold CC – Certified in Cybersecurity, and what can a certified team own?

CC suits help desk staff, junior analysts, network and systems administrators, and new hires moving into security work. The linked course covers access control, data security and system hardening, network security infrastructure, network threats and attacks, and business continuity, disaster recovery and incident response concepts. That gives IT leaders a team that shares a common security vocabulary and can support access reviews, hardening tasks, and first-line incident response under senior guidance.

What does CBT Nuggets CC – Certified in Cybersecurity training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets CC – Certified in Cybersecurity courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to ISC2'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 CC – Certified in Cybersecurity training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the CC – Certified in Cybersecurity 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 CC – Certified in Cybersecurity?

The linked live course adds up to about 9 hours of video. Actual time to certify depends on each team member's starting point in networking and security fundamentals, plus the time set aside for virtual labs and practice exams before anyone sits the exam.

What if ISC2 updates the CC – Certified in Cybersecurity exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates ISC2 course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When ISC2 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 CC – Certified in Cybersecurity-certify your team?

Build CC – Certified in Cybersecurity capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track CC – Certified in Cybersecurity training across the team — a practice exam and reporting included.

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