GIAC (SANS)

GIAC Cloud Penetration Tester

GCPN

The GIAC Cloud Penetration Tester (GCPN) certification validates your ability to bridge cloud technology fluency with hands-on penetration testing skills. Designed for offensive and defensive security practitioners, it proves you can assess and test the security of systems, networks, architecture, and cloud technologies across AWS and Azure. Earning GCPN demonstrates readiness to simulate real-world attacks and defend modern cloud enterprises.

Practice Free Questions

6Domains

12Objectives

97Practice pages

466Free questions

GCPN free practice questions

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Cloud Penetration Testing Fundamentals

30 questions · 6 pages

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

Red Team Penetration Testing of Cloud Environments

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

Discovering Cloud Services and Data

40 questions · 8 pages

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

Cloud CLI and Application Mapping

38 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–38

AWS Authentication and Cloud Services

30 questions · 6 pages

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

Microsoft Azure Cloud Services and Attacks

42 questions · 9 pages

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

Azure Functions and Windows Containers

37 questions · 8 pages

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

Containers and Kubernetes Structure

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

Cloud Native Applications and CI/CD Pipelines

54 questions · 11 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50 51–54

Web Application Attacks

29 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–29

Password Attacks on Cloud Environments

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

Redirection and Attack Obfuscation

23 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–23

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GIAC Cloud Penetration Tester

GCPN free practice questions

Domain 1 · Cloud Penetration Testing Fundamentals16% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 76 questions16%

Domain 2 · Cloud Service Discovery and Reconnaissance17% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 78 questions17%

Domain 3 · Cloud Platform Attacks23% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 109 questions23%

Domain 4 · Container and Kubernetes Security11% of practice bank · 1 objectives · 49 questions11%

Domain 5 · Application and CI/CD Security18% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 83 questions18%

Domain 6 · Credential Attacks and Evasion15% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 71 questions15%