CON 3900V / CON 3910: Contracting Certification Exam Prep - For DoD (DAWIA)
Built to prepare you for the CON 3990V Contracting Certification Exam.
The CON 3990V Contracting Certification Exam is a closed-book, 150-question test — and roughly a third of candidates don't pass on their first attempt. For DoD contracting professionals, this certification is a condition of employment, so getting it right matters. This is Phoenix Canyon's own exam-prep course, built to get you ready.
Rather than drilling you on a list of facts to memorize, this course prepares you to reason through the exam — synthesizing everything you learned across CON 1100–1400 into a working command of the material, so you can think through any question the exam asks, not just the ones you happened to study. During this course, you'll work across the competencies and the FAR Parts the exam covers, guided by an instructor with a law degree, DAWIA/FAC-C certifications, and years of practitioner experience working in a government contracting office on over $7.7 billion of federal contracts. This is someone who knows the contracting material cold — and has earned multiple awards and consistent top reviews teaching it for the past 5 years.
But knowing the material is only half the battle — and exam-taking strategy is the half most people overlook. Many brilliant people make avoidable mistakes during a test, or worse yet — they completely freeze. Here's the good news: great test-taking skills are universal. They aren’t specific to any one exam - and they can be taught. In this course, we teach you a repeatable system of test taking strategies that transfer to any high-stakes test, including this one. Your instructor has spent a lifetime mastering that system — earning a top 1% score in the nation on the MPRE, top scores on the LSAT (earning admission to top-rated law schools), and consistently elite results across the ACT, USPAP, and a long list of other national exams. You'll learn how exam questions are actually structured and how to use the question itself to narrow the answers, paired with the psychology and neuroscience of performing under pressure. These are the strategies that turn people who know the material into people who pass the exam.
This course fills a gap in course availability. It prepares you for the same CON 3990V exam that the official prep courses target — but each of those comes with a real limitation. CON 3910 is self-paced, with no live instructor to guide you. The instructor-led option, CON 3900V, is restricted, often prioritized for those who've already failed once, and subject to waitlists. This Phoenix Canyon course is the great equalizer: live, expert instruction available to everyone. Open enrollment, no waitlist, available to anyone who wants to walk into that exam confident and prepared the first time. This exam prep course is optional — but given the stakes and the pass rate, it's the kind of optional that pays for itself.
Best for: DoD contracting professionals, contracting officers, and members of the defense acquisition workforce preparing to sit the CON 3990V Contracting Certification Exam.
Format: 5 days / 40 CLPs. Classroom or virtual.
Pricing is set per engagement. Contact Phoenix Canyon to request a quote.
Built to prepare you for the CON 3990V Contracting Certification Exam.
The CON 3990V Contracting Certification Exam is a closed-book, 150-question test — and roughly a third of candidates don't pass on their first attempt. For DoD contracting professionals, this certification is a condition of employment, so getting it right matters. This is Phoenix Canyon's own exam-prep course, built to get you ready.
Rather than drilling you on a list of facts to memorize, this course prepares you to reason through the exam — synthesizing everything you learned across CON 1100–1400 into a working command of the material, so you can think through any question the exam asks, not just the ones you happened to study. During this course, you'll work across the competencies and the FAR Parts the exam covers, guided by an instructor with a law degree, DAWIA/FAC-C certifications, and years of practitioner experience working in a government contracting office on over $7.7 billion of federal contracts. This is someone who knows the contracting material cold — and has earned multiple awards and consistent top reviews teaching it for the past 5 years.
But knowing the material is only half the battle — and exam-taking strategy is the half most people overlook. Many brilliant people make avoidable mistakes during a test, or worse yet — they completely freeze. Here's the good news: great test-taking skills are universal. They aren’t specific to any one exam - and they can be taught. In this course, we teach you a repeatable system of test taking strategies that transfer to any high-stakes test, including this one. Your instructor has spent a lifetime mastering that system — earning a top 1% score in the nation on the MPRE, top scores on the LSAT (earning admission to top-rated law schools), and consistently elite results across the ACT, USPAP, and a long list of other national exams. You'll learn how exam questions are actually structured and how to use the question itself to narrow the answers, paired with the psychology and neuroscience of performing under pressure. These are the strategies that turn people who know the material into people who pass the exam.
This course fills a gap in course availability. It prepares you for the same CON 3990V exam that the official prep courses target — but each of those comes with a real limitation. CON 3910 is self-paced, with no live instructor to guide you. The instructor-led option, CON 3900V, is restricted, often prioritized for those who've already failed once, and subject to waitlists. This Phoenix Canyon course is the great equalizer: live, expert instruction available to everyone. Open enrollment, no waitlist, available to anyone who wants to walk into that exam confident and prepared the first time. This exam prep course is optional — but given the stakes and the pass rate, it's the kind of optional that pays for itself.
Best for: DoD contracting professionals, contracting officers, and members of the defense acquisition workforce preparing to sit the CON 3990V Contracting Certification Exam.
Format: 5 days / 40 CLPs. Classroom or virtual.
Pricing is set per engagement. Contact Phoenix Canyon to request a quote.