Technical learning hours
Technical Professional Development
Document your technical learning for continuing professional development.
HKSM provides independent guidance, not official certification advice. You are responsible for researching and understanding your certification body's current eligibility, reporting and renewal rules, confirming that your learning qualifies, and reporting your actual learning time. Check the official rules directly before submitting a claim.
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Technical courses
The figures below are published course-duration estimates, not automatic credit awards. No estimated quiz, assignment or additional reading time has been added.
| Course | Provider | Published duration |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) | HKSM Courses | 1h 34m |
| ICS/OT Cybersecurity Fundamentals | Udemy | 5h 50m |
| ICS/OT Incident Drills and Tabletop Exercises | HKSM Courses | 4h 49m |
| ICS/OT Incident Response Plan: Write One That Works | HKSM Courses | 7h 38m |
| AI Systems with Claude for Scrum Masters and Project Managers | HKSM Courses | 5h 7m |
How to document and claim your learning
HKSM Courses (courses.hksmnow.com): Free courses now support a Record of Completion. After meeting the course completion requirements, sign in and go to Profile → Miscellaneous → My completion documents to find your record. Save it with your learning log, screenshots, notes and assignments.
Udemy: Free courses do not include a certificate of completion (legacy enrolments before 17 March 2020 may retain one). This differs from a paid course obtained with a free promotional coupon. See Udemy's free-course guidance. Keep screenshots and your own learning records when no certificate is issued.
- Check your organization's rules. Confirm that the topic is relevant to your credential, that self-paced study is accepted, and how hours convert to its credits. Do not assume every published hour qualifies.
- Keep a learning log. Record the exact course title, provider, course URL, study dates, topics covered and actual engaged learning time. Record additional reading and completed exercises separately, using your actual time rather than a fixed allowance.
- Save evidence. Take screenshots of the course title, published duration and your completion/progress. Keep your certificate if issued, all study notes, quiz results and completed assignments. A purchase receipt alone does not show completion.
- Submit through your professional body's portal. Use its appropriate self-paced learning category and required units. Describe what you learned and how it relates to your professional work. Follow its rounding, allocation and evidence-retention rules; do not double-count the same learning.
- Retain your records. Keep the log and supporting evidence for the period your organization requires, in case your claim is audited.
A simple learning-log entry
Course and provider · Course URL · Study dates · Actual learning time · Topics and relevance to your role · Screenshots/certificate · Notes and assignments · Claim date and reference.
ICS/OT Incident Response Plan: Write One That Works
Most OT incident response plans fail before anyone writes a word: no sponsor, no charter, no agreement on who decides. This workshop course takes you from a blank page to a plan your site approves and your operators can follow.
Each of the eight sections writes one chapter of your plan: the authority and scope, the inputs, severity in the language of the plant, command and decision rights, response steps, recovery and the readiness library.
You get the plan template, more than 40 templates and worksheets, 21 worked examples and a capstone with a full model answer.
37 lessons, 7.7 hours. US$147 one-time through HKSM Courses. 30-day money-back guarantee when 50% or less consumed.
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Write the OT incident plan your site will actually use
Go from a blank page to an approved, usable plan for your industrial site, one chapter at a time. ICS/OT Incident Response Plan: Write One That Works includes 37 lessons, the plan template, worksheets and a full model answer, delivered through HKSM Courses for US$147 one-time. 30-day money-back guarantee when 50% or less of the course has been consumed.
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