CMMC Certified Assessor CCA Training – September 2025

CMMC Certified Assessor (CCA) Training is Guided Learning with live session + self-study.  You will self-study at your desk, at your pace.  Full access to the training material as soon as enrolled.

You will have live session with your CMMC Certified Instructor divided into 2 weeks.  Candidates will be provided with the training course material (e-Book) containing over 500 pages of explanatory information, examples, exercises, and quizzes. Live sessions are held in a rotating basis allowing candidates to join the next sessions if their schedule does not permit attending any particular date/time.

A CMMC Certified Assessor (CCA) applies a rigorous Assessment Process to ensure the relevant security controls have been effectively implemented and that there is evidence that these controls can be sustained. This course covers identifying the scope of an Assessment, assessing the CMMC Level 2 practices, and using and established process and workflow to enable efficiencies during an Assessment.

Meet our trainers/instructors here.

September 2025 classes:

• September 11  –  Thursday 4 pm EST)  
• September 12  –  Friday  (4 pm EST) 
• September 15 –  Monday (4 pm EST) 
• September 16 –  Tuesday (4 pm EST) 

Prerequisites

This course is designed for CMMC Certified Professionals (CCP) who are interested in becoming CMMC Certified Assessor (CCA), as well as CMMC Certified Instructors (CCI) who want to teach this CCA course in the future. This course is also beneficial to employees of Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Organizations Seeking Certification (OSCs) because an understanding of how CCPs and CCAs think during an Assessment will ensure better Assessment readiness.

To ensure your success in this course, you must have the foundational cybersecurity knowledge of a CMMC Certified Professional, which you obtain by taking the following course and exam:
– CMMC Certified Professional (CCP)

Course Objectives

In this course, you will apply the CMMC Assessment Process to validate the performance of cybersecurity practices in the 14 domains derived from NIST SP 800-171. You will:

• Establish key elements of your responsibilities as a professional CMMC Assessor.
• Work through an Assessment.
• Validate the context and scope of a Level 2 CMMC Assessment.
• Assess the practices in the following domains:
  • Access Control (AC)
  • Awareness and Training (AT)
  • Audit and Accountability (AU)
  • Security Assessment (CA)
  • Configuration Management (CM)
  • Identification and Authentication (IA)
  • Incident Response (IR)
  • Maintenance (MA)
  • Media Protection (MP)
  • Personnel Security (PS)
  • Physical Protection (PE)
  • Risk Assessment (RA)
  • System and Communications Protection (SC)
  • System and Information Integrity (SI)

Assignments

There will be at least three assignments to be delivered online. These assignments provide the CCA candidate with hands-on experience in CMMC Level 2 assessment. They will be reviewed by the instructor to ensure the candidate is on track and is progressing through the content successfully.

Final Exam

Course includes a final assessment test that will measure how prepared the candidate is for the “CMMC Certified Assessor (CCA)” exam. Passing score (70/100) for this test will be a pre-requisite for accessing the Cyber AB provided CCA exam.

CMMC Certified Assessor (CCA) Examination

For additional information on the Cyber AB exams, please visit https://cyberab.org/.

Cancellation Policy

• Linqs reserves its right to reschedule of the training to another day/time due to unforeseen events.
• We welcome substitution of another attendee with no additional fee.
• Cancellations prior to start of the course and delivery of the training materials are refundable and subject to $50 administrative fee.
• Cancellations after the start of the course and delivery of the training materials are non-refundable.