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eMAPT 2023: My Journey and Review

5 min readMar 6, 2023

Hi, I am back after few holidays and some busy work days. Today I will be talking about one of the most talked cert in the industry when people start Mobile Penetration Testing i.e. eLearnSecurity Mobile Application Penetration Testing also known as eMAPT. I passed the exam on my first attempt a few days ago and just wanted to share everything I learnt on the whole journey.

eMAPT: eLearnSecurity Mobile Application Penetration Tester

Background

If you are new here then I would like to you give you a small intro of myself. I am Astik Rawat, Security Consultant working mostly on Web Application and Network Penetration Testing. Recently I started learning Mobile App Testing. When comes to Mobile App Testing certs, I only came across eMAPT which fit my budget and as I already did eJPT before so I knew the exam would be a good chance to check my progress. I wrote an eJPT blog (My Journey for eJPT-eLearnSecurity) a while ago you can also check that if you are planning to go for the exam.

Preparation

To learn mobile app testing, I went with TCM Academy Mobile Application Penetration Testing few months ago to get started with it. It teaches you from Android to iOS Application testing. Not only that it also teaches you few more methods on your lab setup with live hunting real-world app examples. Thanks to the TCM Academy, Heath Adams and Instructor Aaron for…

Hi brow, here in brazil we have a certification mobile calling "SCMP|A" this certification is very crazy, and have more requirements than eMAPT.

I believe that this certification will manage to give you a greater challenge

https://sec4us.com.br/certificacao/scmpa-sec4us-certified-mobile-pentester-android/

eMAPT 2023: My Journey and Review

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