CPE Credits

Chassidic1

B"H

Hey JD,

Here-and-there I get emails about attending events and earning CPE credits. If I attend these events now, before achieving CISSP, will they help me in some way after achieving CISSP? Or, not really...?

I know the "true" value is the content of the security course itself, assuming it is good; but, on several occasions my manager mentioned the CPE thing as an extra bonus; and, I wonder if that is the case here...

Thanks!
Dovid

redz

Per: https://www.isc2.org/uploadedFiles/Credentials_and_Certification/About_Our_Credentials_and_Process/CPE.pdf



Associate of (ISC)2 for the CISSP is required to have 20 Group A CPE/year. I do not know the process for submitting these (if you have an (ISC)2 member account to do so, etc) as I was never an Associate of (ISC)2 for anything.

Hope this helps, at least a little

beads

Past CPEs will be just that - in the past. Once you pass the CISSP you get to start from that date forward with a clean CPE slate, so to say. I say this as I had completed a course after my exam but not yet awarded the resulting pass. This was a paper based test where you had the extra luxury of waiting 6-8 weeks for your results. ISC2's reply was negative though you could have argued the case either way.

Would have been convenient to immediately start with 36 CPEs right off the bat though!

JDMurray

You cannot apply CPEs for any event you attended before you received an (ISC)2 certification. Even if you get a second (ISC)2 cert, you cannot retroactively apply the CPEs you earned for your first (ISC)2 cert to your second cert. Any given CPE can only be applied to one (ISC)2 cert.

Chassidic1

Thanks guys, didn't think so

beads

Chassidic1;

Sounds good from the candidates side though doesn't it? Unfortunately, I do see the other side of this coin as well.

- B Eads