Security
The skills a Security assessment can cover, how the assessment runs, and a sample question to try.
Skills covered
Candidates declare the skills they have, and each sitting is generated for their target role and those skills. These are skills from this field that an assessment can cover.
- Application Security
- Threat Modeling
- OWASP Top 10
- Vulnerability Management
- Identity & Access Management
- Zero Trust
- Cryptography
- Network Security
- Secure Code Review
- Incident Forensics
Sample question
How should an application store user passwords?
- AEncrypted with a key kept on the same server
- BBase64-encoded so they are not readable at a glance
- CIn plain text in a table only administrators can read
- DAs salted hashes from a slow password-hashing algorithm such as bcrypt or Argon2
Show the answer
D. As salted hashes from a slow password-hashing algorithm such as bcrypt or Argon2
A slow, salted hash cannot be reversed, and the per-password salt plus the deliberate slowness make large-scale guessing expensive if the database ever leaks.
A sample only. Real questions are generated fresh for each sitting, so this exact question will not appear.
What the assessment looks like
A 25-question skills test and a 7-question text interview, about 50 minutes in total.
Sections
- Multiple-choice questions12 questions
- Scenario questions8 questions
- Written case questions5 questions
- AI text interview questions7 questions
- Total time
- About 50 minutes
- Score validity
- Your verified score stays valid for 90 days.
- Retakes
- One free early retake every 90 days; Premium adds a second.
Look around first. You can browse jobs and save the ones you like before taking the assessment. Saving a job doesn’t require it; applying does.