Overview
A Certified Authorization Professional (CAP®) is an information security practitioner who advocates for security risk management in pursuit of information system authorization to support an organization’s mission and operations in line with the legal and regulatory requirements.
This course covers the broad spectrum of topics that are included in the CAP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK), and discusses all the seven domains that are tested in the certification examination for earning the CAP certification.

Course Delivery
This course is available in the following formats:
Live Classroom
Duration: 5 days
Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 5 days
What You'll learn
Outline
Prerequisites
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Certification
This course helps participants prepare for the certification examination for earning the CAP® certification. The details of the examination are as follows –
Duration of the examination | 3 hours |
Number of questions | 125 |
Format of the questions | Multiple-choice questions |
Passing grade | 700 out of 1000 points |
Exam availability | English |
The examination evaluates the participant’s expertise in seven specific domains. The weightage of these domains in the examination is as below –
Domain | Weightage |
Information security risk management program | 15% |
Categorization of Information Systems (IS) | 13% |
Selection of Security Controls | 13% |
Implementation of Security Controls | 15% |
Assessment of Security Controls | 14% |
Authorization of Information Systems | 14% |
Continuous monitoring | 16% |