What is the KLCP certification?

The KLCP is a certification by Offensive Security that test your knowledge of their operating systems “Kali Linux”.
By doing this exam, you understand the Kali operating system and know how to configure it in Enterprise or for special engagement.
It is an advanced understanding of the OS and prior Linux experience is recommended. The scoring for this exam to pass require you that you achieve 80% on the exam in 90 min with around 80 questions to answer. It’s one of the certification that is not done by a lots of peoples and not really much on the internet regarding the exam experience, the reason why I decided to do a post about my experience on it. I also understand why not a lot of people is having this certification as most of them go straight for the OSCP. But really this cert has nothing to do with pentesting but more understanding the OS behind this distro. Really important to understand

Is it worth doing this certification?

To be honest, I did this certification because my employer paid for me a full year unlimited subscription at Offensive Security so that I have full access to all the courses and unlimited exam attempts. If you want to understand the Kali Linux OS, then yes go for it other then that if you understand Debian it’s pretty much the same. Paying 400$ USD for this exam, for me it’s not worth doing it. It will not bring you a pentesting job, but will definitely tell the employers that you know how to deal with Kali Linux OS and how to set it up for engagements with clients. For me it was more of a challenge then having it.

How did you prepare for the exam?

Since I already had Linux distribution experience, I knew already half of what was in the contents preparation for the exam. It took me around a month of preparation and doing all the exercises in the book help a lots.There is 12 chapters and half of them for me was pretty easy to do as I new most of the content already due to my background experience with Linux distro. The other half was really at a level of a Linux intermediate administrator with the concept of security in it and need more careful reading even reading the chapter twice if needed.
There’s 2 preparation guide:

• The free course PEN-103 on the Offensive Security Website (just need to create an account).
  
• The book “Kali Linux revealed 2022 version”

Final thought?

I would recommend doing it if you would pursue to be on the cyber security field at first, then if you would need to be a Red teamer/ pentester/ digital forensic that would help on how’s the right way to configure your Kali Linux to make sure you won’t compromised any engagement you will be facing with any clients. You don’t want to have important clients data on your Kali Linux laptop and didn’t encrypt the disk in case of loosing the laptop…

Paying 400$ for that certification is a little bit too much for the worth of that certs but if it’s part of a subscription deal, it’s ok don’t lose too much time on it read it quick, schedule the exam and move on to your more valuable courses (like OSCP,OSWA and so on)

Good luck for those wishing to do this certification and hope it help someone understanding better this certification