Certified Penetration Testing Engineer (C)PTE-A)
The Mile2, Certified Penetration Testing Engineer (C)PTE) is designed to prepare the cybersecurity professional for upper management roles within a cybersecurity system. Pen testing explores technical and non-technical ways of breaching security to gain access to a system. The C)PTE demonstrates an understanding of the vulnerabilities and ways malicious hackers are using to acquire and destroy data, as well as of the five Key Elements of Pen Testing: Information Gathering, Scanning, Enumeration, Exploitation, and Reporting. Candidates must pass a written exam.
We have a course for this
Built from this exam's published objectives. The first module is free.
What this qualifies you for
Listed specifically for 1 work role — up to Intermediate proficiency. Because options cascade downward, a cert listed at Advanced also satisfies Intermediate and Basic for that role.
Also listed for 14 Cyberspace Enablers roles — but so is every other certification
The Enablers matrix isn’t role-differentiated: the same certification options are listed for all 14 roles at every proficiency level. We verified that across all 14. So this is true, and it carries no information about this credential specifically — which is why it isn’t in the count above.