CrowdStrike's CCCS Certification Guide states the exam is a 60-question assessment.
90 minutes total, per the same official exam guide - about 90 seconds per question.
The CrowdStrike Falcon Certification Program guide lists $250 per exam, voucher via your CrowdStrike sales representative or online at Pearson.
All CrowdStrike certifications are valid three years; recertification means passing the most current version of the exam.
What the CCCS Exam Actually Tests
CCCS is the cloud credential in CrowdStrike's role-based Falcon Certification Program, directed at the cloud security engineer who manages the security of the organization's cloud infrastructure. The official exam guide describes a specialist who performs administrative and vulnerability-management tasks inside the Falcon platform to mitigate and prevent risks - setting up and configuring Falcon Cloud Security to monitor and respond to security issues.
The guide's successful-candidate profile spans the whole cloud surface: understanding the features and services of Falcon Cloud Security, managing cloud account registration for an organization, configuring cloud security policies and rules, managing pre-runtime and runtime protection, performing detection analysis, and remediating and reporting issues when necessary. CrowdStrike recommends at least six months of production Falcon experience before sitting.
The published scope lands in seven areas: Falcon Cloud Security Features and Services, Cloud Account Registration, Cloud Security Policies and Rules, Pre-Runtime Protection, Runtime Protection, Findings and Detection Analysis, and Remediating and Reporting Issues. The objectives reach the acronyms working cloud engineers live in - cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud workload protection (CWP), application security posture management (ASPM), data security posture management (DSPM), and infrastructure as code (IaC) security - plus the Kubernetes admission controller, image assessment reports, and Falcon Fusion SOAR notification workflows.
One honesty note: CrowdStrike does not publish a numeric passing score. The exam guide says only that candidates must 'achieve a passing score.' Anyone who quotes you an exact CCCS pass percentage is guessing.
OnVUE at Home or a Pearson Testing Center
Pearson VUE's CrowdStrike program page states the delivery plainly: the certification programs are 'delivered by Pearson either online (OnVUE) or at a Pearson testing center'. Both routes are open for CCCS, and scheduling happens through your Pearson account with a credit card or an exam voucher.
The at-home route carries Pearson's published OnVUE requirements: Windows 10 or macOS 14 or higher, a working webcam, microphone, and speaker with no headphones, one display only, at least 6 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up, and the ability to close every application except OnVUE. Virtual machines, phones, tablets, smart devices with recording or AI features, and secondary displays are prohibited. Pearson is explicit that failing the requirements on exam day can mean immediate cancellation and forfeiture of the exam fee - run the system test on the exact device and network you will use.
What the CCCS Attempt Costs
The program guide is blunt about pricing: each CrowdStrike certification exam costs $250 USD. You buy the voucher through your CrowdStrike sales representative or online at Pearson, and every registrant must accept the CrowdStrike Certification Exam Agreement and be at least 18 years old - no exceptions.
Retakes cost the full $250 again, and the retake policy has teeth. After a failed first attempt you wait 48 hours. After the second, the wait is seven days for the third and later attempts. A fourth failure for performance reasons means a 30-day wait, retaking the recommended training, and a review with the CrowdStrike Certification Manager before a fifth attempt is even approved. Retakes beyond the fourth attempt are case-by-case, and CrowdStrike reserves the right to deny them. A failed exam is therefore not just a fee problem - it is a calendar problem, which is exactly what a handled sitting removes.
Where CCCS Candidates Actually Fail
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How the Service Works
You send the brief
You get a straight feasibility answer
The sitting is handled end to end
You pay after the result
What You Get
Format-verified plan
Delivery-route guidance
Privacy by default
Result-tied fee
Safety, Risk, and Straight Talk
CrowdStrike's exam guide is direct about misconduct: CrowdStrike may invalidate scores and treat suspicious action as a violation of the Certification Exam Agreement, and exam challenges must be filed within three days. Any provider who pretends those enforcement lines do not exist is not being honest with you.
What we control is the quality, discretion, and privacy of the engagement: an honest feasibility answer before anything starts, a structured execution plan, and a fee that follows the result. If your situation makes the service a bad fit, we tell you before you spend anything.
Pay After the Pass Posts
The payment model is the service. You do not pay the service fee upfront and hope. Exam Assist handles your CCCS sitting end to end, and the service fee is due only after the agreed result posts in your Pearson score report.
That structure is deliberate. It moves the risk off your side of the table and onto ours, and it keeps the engagement honest: if the agreed result does not post, the service fee does not either.
Candidate Feedback
Cloud security is my team's mandate and CCCS became the partnership requirement. They confirmed the format against CrowdStrike's guide, handled the sitting, and I paid after the pass posted.
CSPM policies and image assessments are my day job; exam scheduling is not. Having the CCCS sitting handled end to end turned a stalled credential into a posted result.
The CCCS retake rules were the decider. A failed exam would have cost me $250 and a 48-hour delay minimum. The fee-after-result model made the decision easy.
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