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Pen Testing Courses

Pen testing courses can help you learn vulnerability assessment, network security, and ethical hacking techniques. You can build skills in penetration testing methodologies, risk analysis, and incident response strategies. Many courses introduce tools like Metasploit, Wireshark, and Burp Suite, that support identifying and exploiting security weaknesses in systems and applications. By engaging with these tools, you can practice practical work that enhance your ability to secure networks and protect sensitive data.


Popular Pen Testing Courses and Certifications


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    Packt

    Information Systems Operations and Business Resiliency

    Skills you'll gain: Service Level Agreement, Data Governance, Incident Management, Problem Management, Database Management Systems, Asset Management, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning, Business Continuity, Security Controls, Information Systems, IT Infrastructure, Auditing, Patch Management

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    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Coursera

    Advanced Appium: Scalable Mobile Test Automation

    Skills you'll gain: Test Automation, Jenkins, Mobile Development, Test Execution Engine, Testability, Application Frameworks, Test Case, Regression Testing, Continuous Integration, Debugging, Scalability, CI/CD, Test Engineering, Maintainability, Automation, Continuous Deployment, Cross Platform Development, Containerization

    Advanced · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Codio

    Performance Monitoring For Application Developers

    Skills you'll gain: Application Performance Management, Prometheus (Software), Network Monitoring, System Monitoring, Grafana, Performance Tuning, Event Monitoring, Performance Testing, Performance Management, Server Administration, Web Analytics and SEO, Javascript

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

    Java Database Engineering: Spring Boot MVC & SQL Mastery

    Skills you'll gain: Performance Tuning, Hibernate (Java), Development Testing, JUnit

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Codio

    RESTful MVC Architecture

    Skills you'll gain: Model View Controller, Test Driven Development (TDD), Restful API, Vue.JS, Full-Stack Web Development, Frontend Integration, Web Applications, Unit Testing, Server Side, Javascript, HTML and CSS, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), User Interface (UI)

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Whizlabs

    Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks

    Skills you'll gain: Chef (Configuration Management Tool), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Development Testing, Software Installation, Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD, DevSecOps, System Support, Configuration Management, Automation

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    University of Minnesota

    Analytics Project Ideation

    Skills you'll gain: Predictive Modeling, Predictive Analytics, Simulations, Exploratory Data Analysis, Experimentation, Research Design, Business Analytics, Operations Research, Project Design, Customer Analysis, A/B Testing, Data Mining, Business Analysis, Analytical Skills, Ideation, Advanced Analytics, Applied Machine Learning, Process Mapping, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking

    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    Packt

    Advanced Elasticsearch Operations and Cloud Deployment

    Skills you'll gain: Cloud Deployment, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Management, System Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Application Performance Management, Scalability, Cloud Computing, Performance Tuning, Security Testing, Data Maintenance

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    Advanced · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    EDUCBA

    Python Scripting Case Study - To-do List Application

    Skills you'll gain: Debugging, Integrated Development Environments, Web Applications, Development Environment, Django (Web Framework), Software Testing, Web Development, Program Development, Software Development Methodologies, Software Architecture, Scripting, Python Programming

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    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Packt

    Web Hacking Expert - Full-Stack Exploitation Mastery

    Skills you'll gain: Exploitation techniques, Penetration Testing, Secure Coding, Web Development, Web Applications, Full-Stack Web Development, Vulnerability Assessments, Application Security, Angular, Ajax, Javascript

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Packt

    Craft an AutoGPT Gen AI Instrument with Rust & GPT-4

    Skills you'll gain: Rust (Programming Language), ChatGPT, Authentications, Generative AI Agents, Back-End Web Development, Web Servers, OpenAI API, Databases, Web Applications, Secure Coding, Command-Line Interface, Generative AI, AI Enablement, Agentic systems, API Testing, Key Management, Restful API, Development Environment, Unit Testing, Maintainability

    Intermediate · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

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    University of Michigan

    Debugging: Hunting and Squashing Bugs

    Skills you'll gain: Debugging, Unit Testing, File I/O, Integrated Development Environments, Program Development, Computer Programming Tools, Development Environment, Technical Communication, Python Programming

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular pen testing courses

  • Information Systems Operations and Business Resiliency: Packt
  • Advanced Appium: Scalable Mobile Test Automation: Coursera
  • Performance Monitoring For Application Developers: Codio
  • Java Database Engineering: Spring Boot MVC & SQL Mastery: Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
  • RESTful MVC Architecture: Codio
  • Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks: Whizlabs
  • Analytics Project Ideation: University of Minnesota
  • Advanced Elasticsearch Operations and Cloud Deployment: Packt
  • Python Scripting Case Study - To-do List Application: EDUCBA
  • Web Hacking Expert - Full-Stack Exploitation Mastery: Packt

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