You get a total of 48 hours to attempt your certification exam. This includes completing all challenges, in-depth questions, and a DevSecOps project. The timer will only begin counting down once you sign in to the assessments page and start the exam, so take your time and prepare as much as you need!
You can attempt the certification exam 2 times. We believe in second chances!
No, there are no restrictions on how long you spend on any particular lab or hands-on environment, as long as it’s within the 48-hour time limit.
The certification exam is broken up into 3 parts: Challenges, In-Depth Questions, and the Project. Challenges will be auto-evaluated by our systems, but the questions and project will be carefully evaluated by our in-house team of security experts.
For the Challenges, you’ll be asked to solve simple and complex problems within a real-world environment, from finding vulnerabilities in a piece of code, to running automated scans within a pipeline. The whole challenge will take place within our lab environment.
Once you’ve fixed the problem, you can enter a validation code and the system will check your solution. If you’ve solved the issue, you’ll be given a unique completion code which you can submit to complete your challenge!
You’ll be given a set of questions that will test not only your technical knowledge of security and software supply chains, but also help us understand how you’ll go about solving real-world problems in a DevSecOps pipeline.
Our team of DevSecOps experts will evaluate your answers based on how coherent and detailed they are.
The project is perhaps the most involved part of your certification exam. We’ll lay out a full-fledged security scenario where you’ll need to build your own DevSecOps solution from scratch.
You’ll need to record a video explaining how you approached the project and what steps you took to complete it. You can also upload any files and artifacts related to the project for our viewing. Our team will carefully evaluate each and every aspect of your submission to see how well you’ve constructed your solution.