CCSP Certification

The Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) certification is intended for experienced IT professionals who have a minimum of five years of experience in the industry with three of those years being in information security and one year in one of the six CCSP domains. The certification builds off of (ISC)²'s Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and CSA's Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK).
In order to obtain the CCSP certification, individuals must earn a passing score of 700 out of 1,000 points on the CCSP exam, which consists of 125 multiple choice questions to be completed in four hours or less. The exam features the six CSSP domains, which are individually weighted for the final score: architectural concepts & design requirements, which is weighted 19%; cloud data security (20%); cloud platform & infrastructure security (19%); cloud application security (15%); operations 15%; and legal & compliance (12%).