Which Certified Threat Intelligence Manager domain is the hardest?

By our measurement, Threat Actor Analysis and Profiling is the hardest domain in the Certified Threat Intelligence Manager bank, scoring 2.7 out of 10. The most approachable domain is Intelligence Analysis and Production at 2.0.

How many questions were analysed?

We analysed 120 Foundation questions for the Certified Threat Intelligence Manager, split across 5 exam domains. The figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl, so they never drift from what you actually get in a practice session.

Is this the official pass rate?

No, and we do not publish one, because vendors do not release reliable per-domain pass rates. This is our own measurement of the bank. Treat it as a map of where the demanding questions sit in the blueprint, not as a prediction of your score.

Measured data

Certified Threat Intelligence Manager

Name: Certified Threat Intelligence Manager exam question complexity by domain
Creator: CERTILUM

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We scored 120 real Certified Threat Intelligence Manager exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.

120 questions scored

5 domains

2.2/10 overall complexity

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Complexity by exam domain

Higher scores mean more demanding question formats. The exam score is computed over the whole bank, not averaged across domains.

Exam complexity score2.2/10Gentle · measured across 120 bank questions

Intelligence Analysis and Production30 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
Intelligence Management and Governance31 questions · complexity 2.1/10 · Gentle
32% multi-select · 3% scenario · 35% interactive
Operational Intelligence and Incident Response24 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
Strategic Intelligence and Future Trends10 questions · complexity 2.4/10 · Gentle
30% multi-select · 20% scenario · 30% interactive
Threat Actor Analysis and Profiling25 questions · complexity 2.7/10 · Gentle
32% multi-select · 20% scenario · 32% interactive

Full per-domain breakdown

Blueprint weight, bank size and question format mix for every domain of the exam.

Domain	Blueprint	Questions	Single	Multi	Interactive	Complexity
Intelligence Analysis and Production	25%	30	10	10	10	2.0/10Gentle
Intelligence Management and Governance	25%	31	10	10	11	2.1/10Gentle
Operational Intelligence and Incident Response	20%	24	8	8	8	2.0/10Gentle
Strategic Intelligence and Future Trends	10%	10	4	3	3	2.4/10Gentle
Threat Actor Analysis and Profiling	20%	25	9	8	8	2.7/10Gentle

How the score is calculated

The formula is fixed and public, so anyone can reproduce these numbers from the same bank.

Every question in the Certified Threat Intelligence Manager bank is measured on four signals that can be read directly from the database. Each signal is expressed as a share of the questions in the domain, and the four shares are combined with fixed weights:

Multi-select questions (40% weight). Items with more than one correct answer. The candidate has to find all of them, which is the single hardest format in the bank.
Scenario questions (30% weight). Questions longer than 150 characters, which describe a situation instead of a definition and therefore test reasoning rather than recall.
Interactive questions (20% weight). Items that require reading code or a configuration snippet.
Deep explanations (10% weight). Questions whose explanation runs past 300 characters, which signals a concept with real nuance behind it.

The combined share is multiplied by ten to produce a 1-10 score. The exam-level score is computed over the whole bank rather than averaged across domains, so a small domain cannot distort the total. Figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl.

Data set: Certilum Certified Threat Intelligence Manager Foundation question bank, 120 questions, 5 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official CREST statistic.

Questions analysed: 120
Exam domains: 5
Hardest domain: Threat Actor Analysis and Profiling (2.7)
Most approachable domain: Intelligence Analysis and Production (2.0)
Question mix: 41 single · 39 multi · 40 interactive
Measured on: Foundation

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Frequently asked questions

What our Certified Threat Intelligence Manager complexity numbers mean and how they are produced.

It measures how structurally demanding the questions are, not the official pass rate. We score every question in our Certified Threat Intelligence Manager bank on four measurable signals and combine them into a 1-10 score. Higher means more multi-select items, longer scenario questions, more interactive code items and deeper explanations — that is, questions that require reasoning rather than recall.