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(ISC)2 CC - Question for the Board.

Jchilders — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:00:19 GMT

Hi all,

General question for the individuals who have gone through the course and also sat for the CC exam. I decided to sign up for the course as a result of finding this through YouTube. In doing so and for full disclosure, I have what amounts to be maybe better than most entry level knowledge of cybersecurity. My question comes down to, I took the pre-assessment test and scored a passing grade is the pre-test as I will call it, a good foundation for knowing whether I can pass the real CC exam? If it matters for context I scored north of 80% and wanting some feedback.

Thanks for your time and reading this everyone!

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Jchilders — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 03:46:21 GMT

Bumping. Also curious if anyone knows of the cert exam is required if you go through Coursera for the cc course?

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tldutton — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 20:29:08 GMT

I would highly suggest that anyone taking ANY ISC2 exam to go through hundreds, if not thousands, of practice questions from multiple sources to gauge your preparedness. Do NOT rely on just one source!

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denbesten — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 21:33:46 GMT

@Jchilders wrote:

[Is] the cert exam is required if you go through Coursera for the cc course?

Apologies that this was not answered earlier.

Passing the cert exam is an absolute prerequisite for earning the certification. Although some study-courses, offer a "final exam", that is NOT the same thing. The only exam that will earn you the certification is the one taken at a Pearson Vue testing center.

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CCucina — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 21:15:07 GMT

Do you know of credible sources for additional questions? I've done a few searches and most of the sites don't look reputable.

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Early_Adopter — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 22:54:37 GMT

I’ve never sat the CC, so please take this with this disclaimer.

Please steer well clear of anything that looks like it might be a brain dump of stolen exam questions.

IMHO the way to pass an ISC2 exam is to learn the knowledge covered so that you see a term on the page and you recall its meaning, you can contextualise it in the menagerie of security items and you can explain why it exists and how it’s used. A binge on questions is an inefficient way of learning and especially where there are not many quality examples any should be kept for confirmation of knowledge, after a review seminar an Instructor will give you one exam - if you learned the content it’s more than enough, if you didn’t there’s no amount of questions you can cycle through that can save you.

CC does not have an official study guide - and in comparison to other certifications it’s kind of ‘out there’ before it’s ready, but it does have five domains that can map nicely to other certifications, so far better than spinning you wheels looking for loads of questions that probably don't exist, you can map the domains in CC to those of SSCP(or even CISSP), Security+(highly comparable though more advanced) in the study guide/test question books and sites that exist for those more mature certifications:

https://www.isc2.org/certifications/cc

Reinforcing my teaching point, I’d advise quality over quantity here, only use your tests at the end of solid study and it will do its job of confirming your knowledge without making you worry over not having ridiculous numbers of questions that might not yet exist for the CC, or worse still might have dodgy provenance and sucker you into accessing stolen questions in brain dumps.

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nkeaton — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:13:45 GMT

@harevov437 This is a dump site and should not be used. Anyone who posts or advocates use of a dump site risks losing Community access and/or their certification.

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DJExamTeam — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:23:43 GMT

Thank you for contacting the ISC2 Community Board.

Certified in Cybersecurity Examination Weights

Domains	Average Weight
1. Security Principles	26%
2. Business Continuity (BC), Disaster Recovery (DR) & Incident Response Concepts	10%
3. Access Controls Concepts	22%
4. Network Security	24%
5. Security Operations	18%
Total	100%

Items are written in such a way that a competent candidate can choose the correct response. Our examinations adhere to technical guidelines which deal with the content of the items, their relevancy to the profession, their appropriateness, their timeliness, their reasonableness, and their relationship to the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK). They adhere to grammatical guidelines which deal with the style of the items, their structure, consistency, clarity, bias, and readability.

These guidelines ensure that the examinations remain impartial, valid, and relevant and to maintain our ANSI accreditation, ISC2 cannot teach the exam. There is a firewall between Trainings and Exams. The class is to help you in your prep, but it does not guarantee you will pass. The exam tests the way you can apply the knowledge skills and abilities listed on the exam outline and taught in the course.

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nkeaton — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:27:46 GMT

@rojifav687 This is a dump site and should not be used. Anyone who posts or advocates use of a dump site risks losing Community access and/or their certification.