PT0-003

About This Exam

PT0-003 is the exam for the CompTIA PenTest+ certification. It validates the ability to manage a penetration testing engagement, from scoping, rules of engagement, legal and compliance requirements and testing frameworks to collaboration and reporting with remediation recommendations; to perform reconnaissance and enumeration with passive and active techniques, OSINT and scripting; to discover and analyze vulnerabilities with scanning tools and validate the results; to carry out attacks and exploits against networks, authentication, hosts, web applications, cloud, wireless, AI systems and people through social engineering; and to run post-exploitation activities such as persistence, lateral movement, staging, exfiltration and cleanup. It is for penetration testers, security consultants, vulnerability analysts and other IT security professionals who test and assess the security of systems and networks.