Do you guarantee that I will pass?
No. Certification is earned based on individual performance. We do not guarantee exam results or successful outcomes.
About the Certification
kAPIPTA is a foundation-level certification that validates essential API penetration testing skills. Candidates must demonstrate hands-on ability to discover and analyze API endpoints, assess authentication and authorization controls, identify input-handling and injection weaknesses, and validate business logic and data integrity issues through practical testing.
What is this exam?
kAPIPTA is a practical, foundation-level exam that evaluates how effectively a candidate can perform an API penetration test using a structured methodology. Candidates are assessed on their ability to analyze target API behavior, understand how requests and responses are handled, and safely test for common, real-world security weaknesses in authentication, authorization, input handling, and business logic.
Who should take this exam?
kAPIPTA is ideal for beginners who want to build real, hands-on API penetration testing skills in a structured and practical way. It is well suited for students, IT or support professionals, junior developers, QA testers, SOC or blue team members, and anyone exploring cybersecurity, application security, or API security as a career path.
Exam format
The exam is conducted in a controlled environment and provides a dedicated API-based application that candidates must assess. Tasks are hands-on and require candidates to identify vulnerabilities or security weaknesses, answer the related questions, and capture the corresponding flag after successful exploitation as proof.
The assessment is 2 hours in duration, with an additional 30 minutes allocated for environment preparation, including instance creation and firewall rule deployment. The total allotted time for the exam is 2.5 hours.
Experience needed
This is a practical, hands-on exam, so candidates should have some basic experience testing APIs before attempting it. You should understand core API security concepts, including common issues covered in the OWASP API Security Top 10, as well as standard best practices around authentication, authorization, input validation, and secure data handling.
Pass criteria
- Candidates must achieve a minimum overall score of 75% to pass the exam and receive their certification credentials.
- Candidates achieving an overall score of 85% or above will be awarded a Merit distinction.
Policies
All exams are conducted under strict integrity standards. Candidates must complete the exam independently—receiving or providing help, using unauthorized resources, or sharing questions or answers in any form (during or after the exam) is strictly prohibited and may result in disqualification and revocation of certification.
Retake policy
This exam includes 1 free retake as part of the voucher policy. After all included retakes are used, any additional attempt will require the purchase of a new voucher.
Certificate validity
This certification includes lifetime online verification and does not expire. Each certificate clearly indicates the exam version and the exam passing date to provide transparent context on when the assessment was completed.
As industry practices and tools evolve, we strongly recommend taking the latest exam version periodically to demonstrate that your knowledge and skills remain current.
Exam Syllabus
- Endpoint discovery
- Hidden API functionality identification
- Request, response, and parameter analysis
- Client-side source review for API discovery
- API authentication mechanisms
- JWT structure and validation
- Token misuse and forgery assessment
- Vertical authorization flaws
- Unauthorized access to restricted operations
- Input validation weaknesses
- XML security issues
- Injection through unsafe parser behavior
- Legacy API input-processing weaknesses
- Object property tampering
- Unauthorized state changes
- Application logic abuse
FAQ
Are exam fees refundable?
All exam purchases are final. Once purchased, no refunds will be issued under any circumstances.
If I fail, when can I retake the exam?
You can retake the exam immediately after a failed attempt or at any time before your exam voucher expires. There is no mandatory waiting period between attempts, as long as your voucher remains valid.
Can I share my exam content or answers?
No. Sharing exam questions, answers, or any part of the assessment is strictly prohibited and may result in disqualification or revocation of certification.