EC-COUNCIL

EC-Council DevSecOps Essentials

DSE

The EC-Council DevSecOps Essentials (DSE) certification introduces the fundamentals of secure application development, DevOps, and DevSecOps practices. It is designed for students, career starters, and professionals with no prior cybersecurity or IT experience. Through hands-on labs and a capstone project, you will learn to identify application risks and integrate security into CI/CD pipelines, building a strong foundation for a career in application security and DevSecOps.

Practice Free Questions

6Domains

31Objectives

292Practice pages

1398Free questions

DSE free practice questions

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History and evolution of application development

48 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–48

Application architectures and development lifecycle

62 questions · 13 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50 51–55 56–60 61–62

Application testing and quality assurance

40 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40

Common application security risks and OWASP Top 10

37 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–37

Secure design principles, threat modeling, and secure coding

52 questions · 11 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50 51–52

SAST and DAST testing

44 questions · 9 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–44

DevOps principles and pipelines

49 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–49

Understanding DevSecOps

49 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–49

DevOps vs. DevSecOps

36 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–36

Shift-left security and DevSecOps culture

46 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–46

Pillars, benefits, and challenges of DevSecOps

34 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–34

Project management and IDE tools

41 questions · 9 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–41

Source-code management and build tools

43 questions · 9 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–43

Continuous testing tools

58 questions · 12 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50 51–55 56–58

Continuous integration tools

41 questions · 9 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–41

Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools

40 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40

Continuous monitoring tools

48 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–48

Role of DevSecOps in the CI/CD pipeline

48 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–48

Key elements of the DevSecOps pipeline

48 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–48

Integrating security into the DevOps pipeline

49 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–49

Continuous security with Security as Code

50 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50

Application assessments and penetration testing

52 questions · 11 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50 51–52

Integrating threat modeling in the plan stage

39 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–39

Integrating secure coding in the code stage

56 questions · 12 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50 51–55 56–56

Integrating SAST, DAST, and IAST in build and test

41 questions · 9 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–41

Integrating RASP and VAPT in release and deploy

43 questions · 9 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–43

Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

30 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30

Integrating configuration orchestration

42 questions · 9 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–42

Integrating Compliance as Code (CaC)

35 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35

Integrating logging, monitoring, and alerting

47 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–47

Integrating a continuous feedback loop

50 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50

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EC-Council DevSecOps Essentials

DSE free practice questions

Domain 1 · Application Development and Security Fundamentals20% of practice bank · 6 objectives · 283 questions20%

Domain 2 · DevOps and DevSecOps Foundations15% of practice bank · 5 objectives · 214 questions15%

Domain 3 · DevSecOps Toolchain19% of practice bank · 6 objectives · 271 questions19%

Domain 4 · DevSecOps Pipelines and CI/CD Security18% of practice bank · 5 objectives · 247 questions18%

Domain 5 · Implementing DevSecOps Testing and Threat Modeling13% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 179 questions13%

Domain 6 · DevSecOps Monitoring and Feedback15% of practice bank · 5 objectives · 204 questions15%