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Completing the Cyber Essentials Questionnaire

Using the OneClickComply platform, you can easily complete the self-assessed questionnaire needed for Cyber Essentials certification. Any tasks that you have automatically fix, or completed manually, will be automatically inputted into the relevant areas of the questionnaire, ensuring that your answers are fully aligned with the security processes that you have in place. Let's have a look at the steps needed to complete a questionnaire within the OneClickComply platform.

When you first click on the Cyber Essentials Questionnaire dropdown, you will see the following page:

Screenshot of the cyber essentials questionnaire area
From this point, selecting either Get Started or Questionnaires will take you to your list of completed questionnaires, similar to the example below:

An example screenshot of the questionnaires page
This page will show you any previous questionnaires that you have either partially completed, or finished creating. To start a new questionnaire, click Create, as highlighted above. This will bring up a new window, asking you to name your document, as shown below:

A screenshot showing the questionnaire naming page

Once named, click Next. You will then see a list of questions along with text boxes for answers, as shown below.

Screenshot showing questions for cyber essentials
From here, simply fill out the boxes with the required information. When you reach the end of a section, the next one will automatically appear. As previously mentioned, any previous technical work that you have completed will automatically be inserted into the questionnaire at the end, so all you have to do is answer more general questions about your business and its processes.

Once all the associated information has been inserted into the form, you will be able to press the Submit button, and start generating the document. Click here to learn how to view your completed questionnaires.

Updated on: 19/03/2025

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