Identity Security Engineer certification: study material beyond the training path?

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Hi all,

I’m getting ready for the Identity Security Engineer certification exam (the proctored, role-based one for ISC) and wanted to see what helped people who have already passed it.

I’ve finished the Identity University training path and gone through the Get prepared for your Identity Security Engineer certification webinar, including the DOMC question format overview. I’m now looking for what to focus on between the training path and the real exam.

A few specific questions for anyone who has taken it:

  1. Resources: Apart from the training path and the exam prep guide, what helped most? Specific documentation sections, developer.sailpoint.com guides, Ambassador content, or anything else.
  2. Weak spots: Which topics were tested more deeply than the training covered? I’m especially curious about transforms, cloud rules, workflows, connectors, and API usage.
  3. Hands-on vs. reading: Did building things in a tenant help more than reviewing docs? If so, which exercises were worth doing?
  4. DOMC format: Since you can’t go back or flag questions, did you change how you approached the exam?

I’ll write up whatever I learn after I take it so the next person has a single thread to start from. Thanks in advance.

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Hi @colsmith - Hands on is definitely a plus here. Setting up VA’s, onboarding apps, correlations, Access requests and certifications. Knowing how things work is where you get tested. Also knowing what the options are for various items. With DOMC, read the question thoroughly for any gotchas. Some questions are scenario based so make sure to read through each potential answer carefully and think about best practices (transforms vs rules, etc).

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I’d focus mostly on hands-on experience. The learning path gives you the foundation, but actually working with transforms, workflows, connectors, provisioning, cloud rules and APIs helps you understand the scenarios much better.

Also, understand why you would choose one approach over another, not just how to configure it.