Among IT certifications, ECCouncil credentials still command genuine respect from employers. The ECCouncil EC-Council Certified DevSecOps Engineer (ECDE) exam is your way in, and the 150 practice questions from ValidVCE make sure preparation time translates into exam-day points.
ECCouncil 312-97 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Objectives |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps Pipeline - Release & Deploy Stage | - Configuration management security - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security - Orchestration and deployment security - Policy as Code implementation |
| Understanding DevOps Culture | - DevOps lifecycle and workflows - DevOps fundamentals and principles - Collaboration and communication models |
| Cloud-Native DevSecOps | - Serverless security - Cloud security principles (AWS, Azure) - Container and Kubernetes security - Cloud security compliance |
| DevSecOps Pipeline - Test Stage | - API security testing - Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) - Security regression testing - Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) |
| DevSecOps Pipeline - Code Stage | - Code review and security analysis - Secret management and prevention - Static Application Security Testing (SAST) - Secure coding practices and guidelines |
| DevSecOps Governance and Culture | - DevSecOps maturity model - Team roles and responsibilities - Security policy and framework - Continuous improvement practices |
| DevSecOps Pipeline - Operate & Monitor Stage | - Logging and security analytics - Threat detection and response - Incident response and management - Continuous security monitoring |
| DevSecOps Pipeline - Plan Stage | - Risk assessment and management - Compliance and regulatory alignment - Security requirement engineering - Threat modeling methodologies |
| Introduction to DevSecOps | - Shift-left security approach - DevSecOps vs traditional security - DevSecOps concepts and philosophy - Key components and toolchain |
| DevSecOps Pipeline - Build Stage | - Build pipeline security controls - Software Composition Analysis (SCA) - Container security fundamentals - Automated build security |
What You Need to Know About the 312-97 Exam
ECCouncil EC-Council Certified DevSecOps Engineer (ECDE) is an official certification exam from EC-Council, identified by the exam code 312-97. Pass it and you hold the EC-Council Certified DevSecOps Engineer (ECDE) certification, which sits at the Professional level. In practical terms, this certification tells employers your skills have been measured against the vendor's own standard, which is why certified candidates tend to stand out in hiring and promotion decisions.
Expect 100 questions within 240 minutes on the ECCouncil EC-Council Certified DevSecOps Engineer (ECDE) exam. Numbers aside, the real challenge is rhythm: lingering too long on one item quietly steals time from three others. Build the habit of answering, flagging, and moving on, then rehearse the full experience under a countdown with the ValidVCE test engine until finishing comfortably early becomes your norm.
Registration for ECCouncil EC-Council Certified DevSecOps Engineer (ECDE) officially runs $550 USD, with 70% required to pass. Worth knowing before you book: retakes are billed at the same full $550 USD, so a failed attempt doubles your spend. The smarter sequence is to measure yourself first. When your scores on the ValidVCE practice tests clear the passing line with room to spare, consistently, that is your signal to schedule the real thing.
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The ECCouncil EC-Council Certified DevSecOps Engineer (ECDE) blueprint spans 10 domains. The ones carrying the most weight include DevSecOps Pipeline - Plan Stage, DevSecOps Pipeline - Operate & Monitor Stage, and DevSecOps Governance and Culture. The complete domain-by-domain breakdown is in the exam topics section above; treat it as your master checklist and let the weights tell you where your study hours earn the most.
ECCouncil EC-Council Certified DevSecOps Engineer (ECDE) Sample Questions:
Camila Duarte, a DevSecOps engineer at a Sao Paulo media company, is setting up her Jenkins pipeline to store database credentials, API keys, and TLS certificates outside of source code and configuration files, with automatic rotation and fine-grained access policies. Which type of tool should she integrate?
- A. Secrets management tool (e.g., HashiCorp Vault)
- B. Container registry
- C. Load balancer
- D. Static code analyzer
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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Aditi Sharma, a DevSecOps engineer at a Pune SaaS company, wants to define security policies as code - such as "no container may run with privileged: true" - that are automatically enforced by the Kubernetes API server before any non-compliant resource is admitted to the cluster. Which technology should Aditi use?
- A. Open Policy Agent (OPA) / Gatekeeper admission controller
- B. Grafana dashboard
- C. Prometheus alerting rules
- D. Jenkins build agent
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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A DevOps team is using AWS CloudWatch to monitor their EC2 instances and Lambda functions in a hybrid cloud environment. They want to receive notifications when CPU utilization exceeds 80% on an EC2 instance, automatically scale the instance when CPU usage remains high for 5 minutes, Store and analyze application logs from multiple AWS services in a centralized location. Which CloudWatch feature should the team configure to achieve these goals?
- A. Enable AWS Config to monitor resource changes and trigger Lambda functions when needed.
- B. Use CloudWatch Logs to store and retrieve metrics for EC2 and Lambda functions.
- C. Set up CloudWatch Alarms to monitor metrics and trigger an auto-scaling policy when the threshold is exceeded.
- D. Manually track CPU utilization and scale the instances when required.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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Emma Rodriguez, a DevSecOps engineer at CyberNova Ltd., is responsible for securing a cloud-native e-commerce platform. Despite implementing security best practices during code commits, builds, and testing, the team recently discovered security vulnerabilities in the production environment, such as misconfigured cloud storage permissions and exposed API keys. To prevent similar issues, Emma decides to implement a final layer of security to identify vulnerabilities that are missed in pre-production testing activities.
- A. By performing deploy-time checks.
- B. By performing commit-time checks.
- C. By performing test-time checks.
- D. By performing build-time checks.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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Steven Smith has been working as a DevSecOps engineer in an IT company that develops software products related to the financial sector. His team leader asked him to integrate Conjur with Jenkins to secure the secret credentials. Therefore, Steven downloaded Conjur.hpi file and uploaded it in the Upload Plugin section of Jenkins. He declared host and layers, and declared the variables. Which of the following commands should Steven use to set the value of variables?
- A. $ conjur variable set -p < policy-path-of-variable-name > -s < secret-value >.
- B. $ conjur variable set -s < policy-path-of-variable-name > -p < secret-value >.
- C. $ conjur variable set -v < policy-path-of-variable-name > -i < secret-value >.
- D. $ conjur variable set -i < policy-path-of-variable-name > -v < secret-value >.
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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