Read before you sit. Keep after you pass.
Exam guides with blueprints, weightings and worked examples for every credential; the body of knowledge behind all of them; handbooks and playbooks for the work itself. Three are free, including the DTCF handbook.
PlaybookPractitioner
The Third-Party Risk Playbook
Running a programme that scales with the vendor list
Tiering, questionnaires that earn their length, contract terms, monitoring and offboarding, at three organization sizes.
68 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsPlaybookPractitioner
The Privacy Operations Playbook
From notice to deletion, with the work in between
Records of processing, rights requests, retention, transfers and vendor privacy, run as operations rather than paperwork.
72 pages · .pdf · edition 2026.1
ContentsWritten and maintained by the association. Guides are revised each edition; the edition is printed on the cover.