Check Point CCCS study guide
Check Point CCCS · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Check Point Certified Cloud Specialist (CCCS) is presented by Check Point as a cloud-focused certification within its broader certification program. Check Point's site lists a Certification Program among its Training Programs, alongside Training Courses, Security Awareness, CISO Training, and Secure Academy, and it links cloud security product areas such as Cloud Firewalls, Cloud Virtual WAN, WAF, and DDoS Protection under its CloudGuard cloud offering. The Check Point CCCS study guide has 5 sections and about 2,334 words.
01Cloud Security Fundamentals and Shared Responsibility
Domain 1 asks you to place each control on the correct side of the provider/customer line, and to know how that line moves across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Expect scenario questions: given a service and a duty (patching, key custody, packet inspection, bucket policy), say who owns it and which CloudGuard pillar covers the customer-side gap.
479 words, about 2 min02Check Point CloudGuard Network Security Deployment in Public Clouds
Domain 2 tests deployment mechanics: which image, which management model, how many interfaces, how the gateway learns cloud objects, and how high availability survives an Availability Zone failure. Externally managed: the gateway is managed from a Security Management Server (a SmartConsole you run, or Smart-1 Cloud).
495 words, about 2 min03Cloud Network Security Architecture and Traffic Inspection
Domain 3 is the architecture question: which traffic must cross a CloudGuard gateway, how you steer it there, and why the return path breaks when steering is wrong. North-south: in and out of the cloud - internet egress from spokes and inbound to published applications.
510 words, about 3 min04CloudGuard Posture Management and Compliance
Domain 4 covers continuous configuration assessment: onboarding accounts, reading compliance results, applying exclusions correctly, and enabling remediation safely. CloudGuard Posture Management reads cloud APIs.
402 words, about 2 min05Cloud Workload Protection and Automation
Domain 5 covers the workload layer: images, containers, Kubernetes and serverless functions, plus the automation that lets findings act instead of accumulating. Images and registries: container images and VM images scanned for vulnerabilities, malware and embedded secrets, both in the CI pipeline and in the registry (ECR, ACR, GCR).
448 words, about 2 min