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Waris Damkham

Certified AI Penetration Testing Associate

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Certificate ID
KSA-RRJ4SZC20103
Issued on
March 1, 2026
Exam version
1.0
Result
Passed with Merit

Earning criteria

Candidates must achieve at least 85% to earn this badge with merit.

Exam topic breakdown

Prompt Injection

30%
  • Direct prompt injection
  • Instruction conflict and priority manipulation
  • Policy and constraint bypass attempts
  • Secret exfiltration from system prompts
  • Indirect prompt injection via reframing and rewording
  • Context manipulation and ambiguity exploitation
  • Single-turn prompt construction under stateless constraints

Sensitive Information Disclosure

25%
  • Incomplete or improper filtering of sensitive data in responses
  • Unintended disclosure caused by misinterpretation or processing errors
  • Memorization/overfitting risk awareness and exposure conditions
  • Confidential data handling failures

Insecure Output Handling & Overreliance

25%
  • Insecure Output Handling
  • Unsafe output formatting/encoding handling
  • Downstream trust of generated output
  • Output-driven security impact pathways
  • Overreliance
  • Unverified acceptance of generated outputs
  • Missing validation steps for high-impact outcomes
  • Failure modes from assuming correctness

Plugin/Tool Risk & Excessive Agency

20%
  • Insecure Plugin/Tool Design
  • Authorization and access control weaknesses
  • Input/parameter handling weaknesses
  • Trust boundary mistakes between the model and external capabilities
  • Excessive agency, functionality, permissions & autonomy
Syllabus distribution (percentages)
Area Percent
Prompt Injection 30%
Sensitive Information Disclosure 25%
Insecure Output Handling & Overreliance 25%
Plugin/Tool Risk & Excessive Agency 20%