A principal investigator or immediate supervisor must attest to the candidate's work experience by completing the Verification Statement on the candidate's CCRC Exam application form . A resume or C.V. is required and must be included with the application. Such certification, however, is neither an endorsement of a particular individual, nor a validation of that person's qualifications for a particular task and should not be represented as such to third parties. The CCRC Exam comprises 200 multiple-choice questions for which the candidate selects the single best answer. Questions test recall, application, and analysis.
Some questions use scenarios.
The exam content is based on a list of job tasks that have been evaluated by 350 experienced CRCs according to the tasks' frequency and importance in the work place. The content of the exam was developed from this data. The exam includes a limited number of items referring to biologic studies. A subject weighs 185 pounds.