practical-devsecops.comReviews of practical-devsecops.com

I recently took the Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP) course offered by practical-devsecops.com, and overall, I found it lacking the depth I expected for a course labeled “Professional.” On the positive side, the platform is fantastic—it’s very user-friendly and runs smoothly. However, in terms of actual content, I’d say only about 30% of the material felt truly valuable. A significant portion of the course goes over basic Linux commands and creating CI/CD pipelines, which I would have expected to be prerequisites rather than core parts of a “Professional” certification. Given the title, I anticipated more advanced security topics, both in theory and practice. Instead, most of the time is spent setting up infrastructure rather than diving deep into software security methodologies. On top of that, the exam seemed straightforward—largely a copy-paste exercise from the course material, rather than a rigorous test of applied knowledge. For the price, I think the value just isn’t there. The platform itself is great, but the course content and assessment could use a serious overhaul to align with what most would expect from a “Professional DevSecOps” certification.

Not worth it

I have not enjoyed my experience. My primary issue is with the labs, you can’t get started on training until your 30 days for labs start. For someone who very much prefers to do labs last, finding I had to crunch down all my learning, then power through all the labs within a month was aggravating. Ended up wasting 10 days of time just so I could finish the course. In the labs, I often found myself in a broken environment. Runners would not be initialized properly, GitLab server would fail to start, etc. I’d spend half my allotted time in each lab just setting the environment up. Which brings us to the support options. The primary means of support is Slack. Why not have an online forum instead, and not requiring students to create yet another account? Download a program that they will never use outside of the course? It just seems ill-conceived.