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CMMC Certified Assessor

CCA is required to sit on a C3PAO assessment team. As of March 2026 there were 759 CCAs against roughly 25,500 assessments a year, each needing three.

150 questions240 minutesPass mark 450 on a scaled range of 200–800Closed bookContent in progress

What the CCA covers

Experienced cybersecurity practitioners who hold CCP and want to serve on assessment teams conducting CMMC Level 2 certification assessments.

ISACA publishes the blueprint below. The percentages are the share of the exam each area accounts for — not separate hurdles, since scoring is based on the total number of questions answered correctly.

CMMC Certified Assessor content areas and their blueprint weights
Content areaWeightLessons
Evaluating Organizations Seeking Certification (OSC) Against CMMC Level 215%
CMMC Level 2 Assessment Scoping20%
CMMC Assessment Process (CAP)25%
Assessing CMMC Level 2 Practices40%

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The CCA blueprint is mapped and lessons are being written. The format and FAQ below are already sourced and current.

Format and logistics

Delivery
Proctored, computer-based (PSI)
Fees
USD 575 (ISACA member) · USD 760 (Non-member)
Retakes
Four attempts within a rolling 12-month period.

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Where this comes from

Every figure above is taken from the documents below and checked against them on each build. Where ISACA’s own sources disagree with each other, the controlled document wins and the disagreement is recorded.

The CCA outline titles Domain 3 "CMMC Assessment Process (CAP) v5.X". No public CAP v5 exists: the v2.0 document’s own footnote records that a draft numbered 5.6.1 was circulated for training only in summer 2022. The current public CAP is v2.0.
CAP v2.0’s body still invites comments on "this DRAFT CAP v2.0", so confirm its final status before writing content against it.

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By QualExam editorial. Written against the awarding body’s published blueprint and checked against it on every build.

Source: ISACA CCA/CCP Exam Candidate Guide

Last checked against the source: 2026-09-22