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SSCP study plan, week by week

Enter your exam date and the hours you have, and get a schedule that covers every SSCP domain in proportion to its official weight, then switches to mixed practice and timed mock exams before exam day. Suggested prep time for SSCP is 5–8 weeks.

No date yet, so this is a 5-week plan at 8 hours a week. Add your exam date to fit it to your calendar.

  1. Week 1

    Learn

    Focus: Security Concepts and Practices, Access Controls

    • Take the free 10-question diagnostic to see where you start
    • Flashcards for this week's domains, a short session every study day
    • 80 practice questions from this week's domains, reading every explanation and its cited source

  2. Week 2

    Learn

    Focus: Risk Identification, Monitoring, and Analysis, Incident Response and Recovery, Cryptography

    • Flashcards for this week's domains, a short session every study day
    • 80 practice questions from this week's domains, reading every explanation and its cited source
    • Review your flashcard queue before starting the new domain

  3. Week 3

    Learn

    Focus: Network and Communications Security, Systems and Application Security

    • Flashcards for this week's domains, a short session every study day
    • 80 practice questions from this week's domains, reading every explanation and its cited source
    • Review your flashcard queue before starting the new domain

  4. Week 4

    Practice

    Weighted toward: Security Concepts and Practices, Network and Communications Security, Access Controls

    • 120 mixed questions across every domain, weighted toward Security Concepts and Practices
    • Redo your missed questions until each one sticks
    • Check your Readiness Read and move your time to the weakest domain it names
    • Your first mock exam (speed drill): 100 questions in 75 minutes, under the timer

  5. Week 5

    Exam rehearsal

    Weighted toward: Security Concepts and Practices, Network and Communications Security, Access Controls

    • Mock exam (full length): 125 questions in 120 minutes, under the timer
    • Review every question you missed on it, then 80 more from the domains it exposed
    • The day before the exam: a light flashcard review and nothing new

Question targets assume about 3 minutes a question, including the explanation and its source. Learn weeks follow the official domain order and give heavier domains more time. Mock exams and questions beyond the free 25 need Pro.

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Before week 1

A plan is only as good as its starting point. Answer ten SSCP questions, no account needed, and see which domains to spend the extra time on.