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CompTIA PenTest+ PT0-003 hands-on labs

Scoping and reporting rather than attack payloads: rules of engagement, evidence review, CVSS scoring and remediation advice.

30 labs you run in the browser: 1 guided, 29 assisted. About 8 hours of authored lab time. This set has no free taster yet; the free tier still carries the lessons and practice questions.

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challenge and capstone

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What you practise

Exam facts and study plan
CVSS 3.1 4rules of engagement 4evidence handling 2evidence-based reporting 2exclusions 2scope confirmation 2service inventory 2CVSS prioritization 1DNS enumeration 1DNS zone transfer 1Modbus 1OSINT 1
  • Assessment workspace· you click29 labs
  • Risk register and control sheets· you click1 labs

Every lab in this set

Title, scenario summary, skills and tool. The steps and the write-up stay in the app.

30 labs
  • Decline the out-of-scope partner address

    Pro

    Guided · Quick · 8 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: Dana from Marlow Dental Group asks you to test 198.51.100.40 because it appears on the client's network diagram. Check the signed scope…

    written authorizationrules of engagementexclusionsthird-party systems

  • Build a two-host service inventory

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 12 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: Use the saved scan report to mark the open services on both Tern Logistics hosts before the team plans its next authorized tests.

    service inventoryopen portclosed portfiltered port

  • Find the host the client forgot in a certificate log

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 12 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: Public certificate-log results for *.tern.example include a name missing from the client's host list. Identify it, then decide what must be confirmed before anyone probes it.

    certificate transparencysubdomain discoveryscope confirmationOSINT

  • Keep testing within the web-only SOW

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 12 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: The signed SOW covers the patient portal web application on 192.0.2.20 over TCP 80 and 443. The saved scan also lists port 445…

    statement of workhost scopeport restrictionsscope change

  • Prioritize the Marlow Dental admin console

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 12 min · Assessment workspace

    Marlow Dental Group supplied a scan summary for forty in-scope hosts. Choose the single service that merits a focused follow-up test based on its version and the supplied vendor notice…

    service inventorybanner reviewvulnerability prioritization

  • Test only the hosts in the signed schedule

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 12 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: Test the 198.51.100.0/25 range tonight. The schedule excludes 198.51.100.30 because month-end close is running. Review the saved inventory, report the supported finding on files-01…

    scopeexclusionsrules of engagementsaved scan output

  • The appliance belongs to the service provider

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    Assisted · Quick · 12 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: The edge firewall at 203.0.113.2 is managed by NorthLink. A client-supplied scan shows its admin page on the internet…

    third-party authorizationrules of engagementwritten consentevidence handling

  • A sign-in page that answers honestly

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    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: The client supplied two saved sign-in exchanges. One used a real username and one used a made-up name…

    user enumerationauthentication responsesgeneric error messages

  • Check a draft test plan against the rules of engagement

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: Your teammate drafted tonight's test plan. Check every item against the signed rules before the engagement begins and return a safe, corrected set of allowed steps.

    rules of engagementtesting windowdenial of servicesocial engineering

  • Check what the scanner template actually found

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: A scanner template flagged a mail relay on 198.51.100.25 because it saw a response on TCP 25. Review the saved banner and decide whether the finding describes the service that…

    scanner templateservice identificationbannerfalse positive

  • Close out the Tern Logistics test window

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Tern Logistics sent a six-line inventory of server changes before the engagement is closed. Match it against the saved test log, identify only the test artifacts…

    cleanuppersistenceengagement closeoutchange attribution

  • Read 200 failed sign-ins that never locked

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: The client's administrator tested webmail authentication and saved the response log. Review what happened through 200 failed sign-ins…

    authenticationaccount lockoutrate limitingpassword guessing

  • Read what a zone transfer handed out

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: The client-supplied DNS output shows that the name server returned a full zone. Summarize what the records reveal…

    DNS zone transferDNS enumerationinternal address disclosureCVSS 3.1

  • Review a teammate's recon loop before it touches the client

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: A teammate left a host-discovery loop in the shared notes. Review its bounds before anyone runs it. The signed scope is 192.0.2.0/24…

    reconnaissancescope boundariesaddress rangesscript review

  • Score the anonymous file service

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: Write up the file service on 192.0.2.40. The saved scan says anyone can log in and read the patient-forms directory…

    anonymous FTPCVSS 3.1confidentialityevidence-based reporting

  • Search results that repeat what was typed

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: The client supplied a portal search capture. Review the harmless test string in the response, identify the issue and score only what the capture demonstrates.

    reflected cross-site scriptingoutput encodingCVSS 3.1user interaction

  • Stop and escalate when the folder holds someone else's data

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: During a file-share review, the client-supplied listing shows a folder that appears to hold another company's payroll exports. Decide what to do before inspecting any contents…

    third-party datadata minimizationescalationevidence handling

  • The export called a host down. Is it?

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: Last week's export marked 198.51.100.61 down and the range clean. A fresh saved check shows the host answering on HTTP with an unauthenticated backup listing…

    stale scan outputservice availabilityunauthenticated directory listingevidence validation

  • Use the threat model to pick where to test first

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 14 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: Tern Logistics shared the data-flow note for its invoice API. Use the trust boundaries and missing sender check to prioritize the first authorized assessment and name the relevant…

    data flow diagramtrust boundarySTRIDEspoofing

  • A plant gateway that takes orders from the office

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    Assisted · Quick · 15 min · Assessment workspace

    Ticket: The plant gateway at 203.0.113.10 accepts write commands from the office network. The rules say OT is passive evidence only. Review the engineer-supplied capture…

    operational technologyModbuspassive evidenceCVSS 3.1

  • One afternoon, three hosts, one ordered list

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 15 min · Assessment workspace

    Tern Logistics authorized an afternoon review of three hosts in its staging subnet. The supplied evidence includes an old admin console banner with a matching vendor remote-flaw notice…

    finding validationCVSS prioritizationevidence-based reporting

  • Rate what the web team left behind

    Pro

    Assisted · Quick · 15 min · Assessment workspace

    Marlow Dental Group approved a review of three saved web captures from its staging site. One exposes repository metadata, one redirects to a supplied external address…

    web exposuresource metadatacredential remediation

  • Turn findings into a remediation plan the client can own

    Pro

    Assisted · In-depth · 24 min · Risk register and control sheets

    Marlow Dental Group has five findings to remediate. The working date is 26 October 2026. Read the client's policy, assign each finding an owner and severity band…

    remediation ownershipseverity-based deadlinesretest verification

  • Halden Foods management-plane exposure review

    Pro

    Assisted · In-depth · 25 min · Assessment workspace

    Halden Foods supplied saved management-plane evidence for a core switch, a printer and a wireless access point. Review the captures without sending new requests…

    SNMP community stringsTelnet cleartextdefault credentialsmanagement plane

  • Retest the Tern Logistics payment range

    Pro

    Assisted · In-depth · 25 min · Assessment workspace

    Tern Logistics has returned its payment range for a retest. Compare the previous report with the new client-supplied scan. Mark each old item fixed or open…

    retest evidencefixed findingspartial remediationreport prioritization

  • Assemble the findings into a client report

    Pro

    Assisted · In-depth · 28 min · Assessment workspace

    Halden Foods needs a client-ready report today. Three findings are already saved from the authorized evidence review. Prepare a short management summary, put the findings in risk order…

    executive reportingevidence-backed risk orderremediation timingreport export

  • Draw the path from the findings

    Pro

    Assisted · In-depth · 28 min · Assessment workspace

    The client supplied a workstation review, a share-access record, an identity audit and a firewall summary after an internal review…

    attack-path analysisfinding relationshipsevidence mappingremediation leverage

  • Tern Logistics exposed staging services

    Pro

    Assisted · In-depth · 28 min · Assessment workspace

    Tern Logistics approved review of its staging environment. The client supplied a proxy configuration, a public object listing and an anonymous registry catalog…

    cloud responsibilitypublic object storageanonymous registry

  • Trace the assumed-breach path without crossing scope

    Pro

    Assisted · In-depth · 30 min · Assessment workspace

    Tern Logistics authorized a simulated assumed-breach review. The client supplied evidence from a lost workstation, guest Wi-Fi configuration and a database trust relationship…

    assumed breachcredential reusewireless key reusescope exclusions

  • Halden Foods retail security assessment

    Pro

    Assisted · In-depth · 40 min · Assessment workspace

    Halden Foods' retail arm has authorized a one-afternoon assessment. Confirm the POS exclusion and passive-only OT rule, review the supplied scan and captures…

    scope confirmationpassive OT reviewfalse-positive validationfinding prioritization

PT0-003 lab questions

There are 30 labs: 1 guided, 29 assisted. Together they carry about 8 hours of authored lab time, and none of them is a free taster yet.

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