PNPT 2023: My Honest Humbling Review

Astik Rawat
10 min readJun 11, 2023

Hi Everyone, I hope you’re doing good. This week I went for my Second Attempt PNPT and finally get it done this time. I just wanted to share my honest experience on the whole exam process and how it humbled me. This blog might be little big longer than my typical writing blog style, you will find it out later why I did that.

PNPT

I bought the PNPT Exam voucher last month. There were some international payment issue, so I emailed support@tcm-sec.com and asked if they could provide me a custom link to pay. So if you also face this issue feel free to connect with the TCM Academy team and let them know that you are having issues due to international payments.

Of course, I also had to message Heath Adams and tell him I am going for PNPT and let him know how much he meant for me and someone who is learning or new to the domain. Not gonna lie, he is one of the reason why I have become good at my work, cybersecurity, pentesting, knowledge and still learning. Okay let’s actually talk about the whole experience. Anyway feel free to jump to any section which interests you.

Background

I am a currently a full time working consultant, on side If I find time I do go for cybersecurity certificates just to check on myself if I am still learning. For this certificate, I would say I did had the knowledge to pass it but I…

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Astik Rawat

Security Consultant | OSCE3 | OSED | OSWE | OSEP | CRTO | OSCP | OSWA | OSWP | PNPT | eMAPT | PJPT | CPENT | eJPT | CEH Master | KLCP | CNSP | OSCC | 9xCVEs