ECDE

EC-Council lists 100 multiple-choice questions and a duration of four hours, delivered online through the EC-Council exam portal. That averages under two and a half minutes per question, so plan to move steadily and flag anything that needs a second pass rather than stalling on one item.

The passing score is 70%, so you need at least 70 of the 100 questions correct. There is no published partial credit or domain-level scoring, so treat every domain as capable of carrying you over or under the line and avoid writing off any single stage of the pipeline.

EC-Council states that applicants must be aware of application security concepts and must enroll in the DevSecOps course offered by EC-Council to be eligible to take the ECDE exam. If you are self-studying, check current eligibility terms with EC-Council directly before booking, since this page cannot confirm them.

The exam is broad rather than deeply mathematical: seven modules spanning culture, foundations, and five pipeline stages, with tool categories such as SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, RASP, IaC scanning, and SIEM. Common failure modes are memorizing product names without knowing which pipeline stage or test class each belongs to, and underestimating the plan and operate modules because they feel less technical.

Follow the course sequence: DevOps culture, then DevSecOps foundations, then plan, code, build and test, release and deploy, operate and monitor. The later stages assume the vocabulary from the earlier ones, and the pipeline modules map cleanly onto exam questions about where a given control belongs and what it detects.

EC-Council describes the course as 70% lab-focused with more than 100 labs across on-premises, AWS, and Azure environments. Use them to connect a tool to its purpose: run a static analysis scan, a dynamic scan, a dependency check, and an image scan, and note what each one finds and where in the pipeline it runs.

Practice questions help most after you can explain each pipeline stage and the security controls that belong to it. Work domain by domain, write a one-line justification for every answer you choose, and revisit any item where your reasoning was right but slow, since timing is a real constraint at 100 questions in four hours.

No. This is original study material written for candidates preparing for the ECDE exam. It is not produced, reviewed, sponsored, or endorsed by EC-Council, and it does not reproduce any official courseware or question bank. Always confirm exam logistics and policy details against EC-Council's own published certification pages.