PenTest+ V3
CompTIA PenTest+ validates your ability to identify, mitigate, and report system vulnerabilities. Covering all stages of penetration testing across attack surfaces like cloud, web apps, APIs, and IoT, it emphasizes hands-on skills such as vulnerability management and lateral movement. This certification equips you with the expertise to advance your career as a penetration tester or security consultant.
Skills Learned
- Plan and scope penetration tests while ensuring compliance with legal and ethical requirements, and develop detailed reports with remediation recommendations to support engagement management.
- Perform active and passive reconnaissance, gather information, and enumerate systems to uncover vulnerabilities effectively.
- Conduct vulnerability scans, analyze results, and validate findings to identify and address security weaknesses.
- Execute network, host-based, web application, and cloud-based attacks using appropriate tools and techniques to test system defenses.
- Maintain persistence, perform lateral movement, and document findings to support remediation efforts during post-exploitation activities.
Exam Details
- Exam version: V3
- Exam series code: PT0-003
- Launch date: December 17, 2024
- Number of questions: maximum of 90, including multiple-choice and performance-based questions
- Length of test: 165 minutes
- Passing score: 750 (on a scale of 100–900)
- Recommended experience: 3–4 years in a penetration tester job role, with Network+ and Security+ or equivalent knowledge
- Languages: English on release; other languages TBD
- Retirement of the previous exam: June 17, 2025
- Retirement: Usually three years after launch (estimated 2027)
Career Path
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Course Content
- Planning and scoping: defining rules of engagement, testing windows, and target selection.
- Legal and ethical compliance: ensuring authorization letters, mandatory reporting, and adherence to regulations.
- Collaboration and communication: aligning with stakeholders through peer reviews, escalation paths, and risk articulation.
- Penetration test reports: creating reports with executive summaries, findings, and remediation recommendations.
FAQs
CompTIA PenTest+ is a cybersecurity certification that validates your skills in penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and mitigation. It ensures you can identify, exploit, and report system vulnerabilities across various attack surfaces, including cloud, web apps, APIs, IoT, and hybrid environments.
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