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Preparation available SECURITY · v2026.1 Professional Cybersecurity

Africoders Certified Applied Security Practitioner

Competency credential after required learning, certification assessment, practical evidence, and Africoders review. Not a Certificate of Completion.

Premium prepares you. A Certificate of Completion proves you finished the course. Professional certification still needs a dedicated assessment, practical project, and human review.

Preparation required

Complete these Premium course(s) and earn a Certificate of Completion before you can apply.

How certification is earned

  1. Step 1 · Prepare

    Finish the required Premium course(s) and Certificate of Completion

  2. Step 2 · Assess

    50 questions · 60 min · 80% to pass

  3. Step 3 · Practical

    Submit the evidence-led project for rubric review

  4. Step 4 · Review

    Human review → Africoders Professional Certification (AFC)

This assessment is not proctored. Course quizzes are learning evidence — not this credential.

Assessment snapshot

What you are preparing for (exam questions are never shown here).

50

Questions

60m

Time limit

80%

Pass score

2

Max attempts

Defensive application security assessment and remediation

Threat-model and assess a permitted application, implement selected remediations, and deliver evidence suitable for engineering and incident owners.

  • Explicit authorization, scope, rules of engagement, assets, and data-handling plan
  • Architecture and data-flow threat model with prioritized abuse cases
  • Reproducible findings spanning identity, authorization, input, secrets, dependencies, and operations
  • Verified remediations for selected high-value risks with regression tests
  • Detection, response, residual-risk, and governance recommendations

Pass threshold: 70% on the reviewer rubric.

Competencies you demonstrate

  • Threat modelling, identity, authorization, and secure application and API boundaries
  • Practical cryptography, secrets, cloud, infrastructure, detection, and incident response
  • Risk-based vulnerability management, governance, privacy, and human-centered security