Who helps with CMMC and what to buy: Registered Practitioner Organizations, CCPs versus CCAs, what consultants do and cost, and what to outsource while keeping assessors independent.
What a CMMC Registered Practitioner Organization is and is not: the RP and RPA designations behind it, Cyber AB registration fees and timing, the experience RPAs need, the rule barring implementers from assessing the same company, and how to check a firm.
The difference between a CMMC Certified Professional and a CMMC Certified Assessor: what each may do, experience and background investigation requirements, roles on a C3PAO assessment team, instructors' consulting ban and the conflict of interest rules between consulting and assessing.
What CMMC consultants and implementation partners do, why DoD's published assessment estimates exclude their work, the Government's estimates of implementation labor and tooling, what a C3PAO engagement is priced at, and promises no assessor may make.
A split of CMMC work between your team, a managed service provider, an implementation partner and the C3PAO: what the Affirming Official must own, how ESPs come into scope, customer responsibility matrices, tool choices, and keeping consultants off your assessment team.
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