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CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional

Standardize your team on CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional 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: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam fee (ISC2)
$599
Courses on path
1
Official source
ISC2’s official exam page
Exam code
  • CCSP

Exam datasheet

Format
Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT); multiple choice and advanced item types.
Prerequisites
At least five years of cumulative work experience in information technology, of which three years must be in information security, and one year in one or more of the six domains of the ISC2 CCSP Exam Outline.
Recertification
3 years
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Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$599

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional path takes CCSP.

  1. CCSPCertified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)Practice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $599
    Exam length
    3 hours
    Questions
    100-150
    Passing score
    700 out of 1000 points

    Exam blueprint: CCSP

Skills your team builds

Cloud ConceptsArchitecture and DesignCloud Data SecurityCloud Platform & Infrastructure SecurityCloud Application SecurityCloud Security OperationsLegalRisk and ComplianceCryptography and key managementIdentity and access controlSecure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Plan business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR)Support digital forensicsUnderstand outsourcing and cloud contract design

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    CCSP

    This CCSP training prepares you to master the six domains of the ISC2 exam outline, focusing on the design, management, and protection of cloud data and infrastructure. You will gain a technical understanding of cloud architecture, security operations, and the implementation of robust security controls. This course covers critical areas including risk management, legal compliance, and the security of cloud platform components, providing the expert-level knowledge required to secure enterprise environments and earn your certified cloud security professional certification.

    Bob Salmans
    126 videosPractice exam18h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

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

ISC2 career ladder

Where CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional 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

  2. Associate level

    1 cert

    SSCP – Systems Security Certified Practitioner

    SSCP

  3. Professional level

    2 certs

    CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional

    CCSP

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    CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional

    CISSP

Compliance frameworks this training supports

Where CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional skills fit your compliance program

The compliance frameworks whose controls draw on the skills CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional training builds, with the control families the certification’s learning objectives address. A planning aid for mapping training to your program, not evidence that a requirement is met.

  • FrameworkSOC 2
    Control families
    CC6CC7
  • FrameworkISO 27001
    Control families
    A.13A.18
  • FrameworkNIST 800-53
    Control families
    ACSCSI

Mappings reflect the certification’s stated learning objectives against published framework control families. CBT Nuggets is a training platform. Our courses build the skills these frameworks depend on, and our completion records document the workforce training many of them require. Training supports a compliance program; it does not by itself make an organization compliant. Your compliance program and its assessors decide what counts as evidence. Pair this table with your auditor’s control crosswalk for the mapping your review requires.

Customer outcome

Build CCSP capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional 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 CCSP a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on CCSP 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: CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional

Exam
  • CCSP

Frequently asked questions about CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional training for their team.

How does CCSP fit our cloud security governance and compliance program?

Teams commonly cite CCSP when documenting training coverage for cloud data protection, provider evaluation, infrastructure risk and business continuity controls, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides the formal mapping for each framework in scope. CBT Nuggets team reporting adds per-learner progress, completion and completion exports that IT leaders can include as audit evidence of assigned cloud security training.

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

CCSP fits senior security engineers, cloud security architects and the people who vet and govern cloud service providers. The linked course lessons prepare a team to own secure cloud design principles, cloud service provider evaluation, data classification and IRM, protection of virtualized systems with BCDR planning, and secure SDLC with cloud application IAM. That gives IT leaders one group accountable for cloud data, infrastructure and application security decisions.

What does CBT Nuggets CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional 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 CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional 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 prepare a team for CCSP?

The linked CBT Nuggets training totals about 18 hours of video across the live courses. Actual time to certify depends on each engineer's starting point, especially prior hands-on experience with cloud architecture, data security and application security, so IT leaders typically assign the course with a target date and track completion through team reporting.

What if ISC2 updates the CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional 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.

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Build CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional training across the team — a practice exam and reporting included.

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