Practice Exam - Burp Suite Certified Practitioner
Summary: PortSwigger Research describes its Burp Suite Certified Practitioner exam as a practical test in which candidates must find and exploit vulnerabilities across several web applications, with stages requiring real exploitation rather than simple detection - stealing a simulated user's session for XSS, or extracting database credentials and using them to reach a target account for SQL Injection. The exam is open book, offers unlimited practice attempts, and expects candidates to have completed all Web Security Academy labs labeled Practitioner or lower without solutions, and to handle encoding-based obfuscation to bypass broken defenses.
Why it matters: The exam deliberately withholds the vulnerability class in advance, so passing depends on the same unlabeled, open-ended triage a defender faces on an unfamiliar application - and PortSwigger warns that misusing the powerful access gained during exploitation, such as deleting a core system component, can make the exam impossible to complete.
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