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CIS-TPRM exam blueprint, explained

Certified Implementation Specialist - Third-Party Risk Management

ServiceNow's blueprint lists what the exam tests and how much each area counts. This page restates it in plain language, with the domains ordered as published and every objective as a checklist.

Official source: KB0011556, updated January 2026. Open the official CIS-TPRM blueprint

The original is a ServiceNow University knowledge article and may ask you to sign in to Now Learning. If anything here disagrees with it, the official blueprint wins.

At a glance

Domains
6
Heaviest domain
Assessment Configuration (33%)
Top two domains
56% of the exam
Objectives listed
19

Where the marks are

Each domain's share of the exam, and what that means for every 10 hours you study.

DomainWeightOf every 10 study hours
1. Third-party Risk Management Fundamentals and Third-party Risk Management Review
23%
2 h 15 min
2. Core Configuration
14%
1 h 30 min
3. Assessment Configuration
33%
3 h 15 min
4. Third-party Portal
12%
1 h 15 min
5. Third-party Supporting Processes
12%
1 h 15 min
6. Other Application Relationships
6%
30 min

Weights as published in KB0011556. The study-time column only applies the weight; spend more on domains you're weaker in.

What each domain covers

The blueprint's objectives for each domain. Tick them off as you can explain and do each one in a Personal Developer Instance.

Before you book

  • Prerequisites: Our transcription of the blueprint lists no mandatory prerequisite certification. Check the exam registration page to confirm.
  • Exam fee: $450.
  • Passing score: ServiceNow does not publish the cut score, and the official exam blueprint says it is not always 70%.
  • Booking, retake waits and exam format are covered on the CIS-TPRM page.

Courses the blueprint points to

Recommended on the blueprint

The blueprint lists these as recommended preparation.

Additional resources on the blueprint

Listed as further reading, not core preparation.

  • Platform Analytics Workspace
  • Service Portal Fundamentals
  • Automated Test Framework Fundamentals
  • Knowledge Management Fundamentals

Courses without a link are named in the blueprint but we haven't recorded a course URL for them; search for them in Now Learning.

How to use this blueprint

  1. Go through the objectives above and mark each one: done for real, only read about, or new.
  2. Start where heavy weight meets the most “new” marks. Assessment Configuration alone is 33% of the exam.
  3. Build each objective in a Personal Developer Instance rather than only reading about it.
  4. Use practice questions to find weak domains, then go back to those objectives and their documentation.

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