About CIS SIR Certification

[SRIRAMSANKAR007]

HI! I am going to have my certification exam in CIS-SIR. I have read the concepts which are present in ebook. Is it enough to pass the exam? If possible provide some materials to cover and what are the topics are important and how will be the questions are there? Give an overview on that.

[Shahjay · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Ebook alone usually isn’t enough for CIS-SIR.

It’s an implementation exam, so most questions are scenario-based — “what would you configure next”, “which state/playbook/role applies here”, that kind of thing. Just reading the concepts helps, but they expect you to have actually clicked through the process a few times.

What I’d recommend:

1. Follow the official CIS – Security Incident Response path on Now Learning / ServiceNow University, not only the ebook.

2. Grab the current exam blueprint and treat every domain as a hands-on checklist.

3. Spin up a PDI (or use a sandbox) and walk the full flow a couple of times: create a security incident → assign it → enrichment → containment tasks → playbooks → observables/IOCs → close it out.

Topics that keep showing up:

- Security incident states and the overall process

- Assignment groups / security roles

- Playbooks vs classic workflows

- Threat intel and observables

- Integration points (email, SIEM, a bit of VR overlap)

- Reporting and how major-incident style coordination works inside SIR

If you’ve only done the ebook, the exam will feel a lot more practical than you expect. A couple of solid hands-on runs make a bigger difference than another pass through the PDF.

Good luck with the exam.

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