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Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)

Standardize your team on Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) with a structured OffSec training path — virtual labs, a blueprint-weighted practice exam, and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

1
Course
1
Practice exam
12
Core skills
$1,699
Exam fee (OffSec)
IT operations team at help desk workstations with ticket queues and network diagrams
Difficulty
Difficulty: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam fee (OffSec)
$1,699
Courses on path
1
Exam code
  • PEN-200

Exam datasheet

Format
Hands-on practical exam in live lab systems: 3 standalone machines for initial access and privilege escalation, plus 1 Active Directory set simulating a breach across 3 machines
Prerequisites
No formal prerequisites
Recommended experience
Solid TCP/IP networking; reasonable Windows and Linux administration; familiarity with basic Bash and/or Python scripting
Recertification
no expiration; valid indefinitely

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$1,699

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) path takes PEN-200.

  1. PEN-200Penetration Testing with Kali Linux (PWK) - OSCP/OSCP+Practice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $1,699
    Exam length
    24 hours
    Passing score
    70/100

    Exam blueprint: PEN-200

Skills your team builds

Enumeration and information gatheringVulnerability scanning and assessmentEncryption and cryptographyXSSCommand InjectionDirectory TraversalFile UploadsSQL InjectionWindows and Linux privilege escalationPivoting and tunneling techniquesActive Directory authentication attacksAWS cloud infrastructure exploitation

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Hands-on virtual labs
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

OffSec career ladder

Where Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) sits in your team's OffSec progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Professional level

    2 certs

    Kali Linux Certified Professional (KLCP)

    PEN-103

    Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)

    PEN-200

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Customer outcome

Build OSCP capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see OffSec skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

Team capability

Make OSCP a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on OSCP gives leadership a clear picture of OffSec skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)

Exam
  • PEN-200

Frequently asked questions about Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) training for their team.

How does the OSCP fit into our security compliance and governance program?

Security teams often cite the OSCP when documenting that the staff running internal penetration tests and vulnerability assessments hold a hands-on offensive security credential issued by OffSec. CBT Nuggets team reporting provides per-learner progress, completion, and completion exports that can serve as audit evidence of assigned training. The auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential formally maps to any framework.

Who on the security team should hold the OSCP, and what can a certified team own?

The OSCP fits penetration testers, red team members, and blue team analysts moving into offensive work. The linked PEN-200 course prepares them to own the pen testing lifecycle from reconnaissance onward: Nmap scanning, active and passive vulnerability scanning with Nessus and OpenVAS, exploitation and payloads with Metasploit, and web application assessment with Burpsuite, including cross-site scripting. IT leaders gain staff who can validate exposure on internal networks and web applications before an attacker does.

What does CBT Nuggets Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to OffSec's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to prepare a team for the OSCP?

The linked live courses add up to about 37 hours of video per engineer. Total preparation time depends on each engineer's starting point in networking, scripting, and security fundamentals, plus the hands-on lab practice this advanced, professional-level credential demands.

What if OffSec updates the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates OffSec course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When OffSec restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

Ready to Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)-certify your team?

Build Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) training across the team — labs, a practice exam, and reporting included.