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AI SQL Developer
Build AI-enabled database solutions with vector search and RAG inside SQL
AWS (Generative AI Focus)
Master AWS cloud and generative AI technologies
Azure AI Engineer
Build intelligent AI solutions using Microsoft Azure's cognitive services and machine learning tools
Business Analyst
Bridge business needs and technical solutions
Cloud Engineer (AWS)
Build scalable cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services platform
Cloud Engineer (Azure)
Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
Cloud Security Engineer
Secure Microsoft Azure environments with identity, network, and workload protection
Cybersecurity Analyst
Protect organizations from cyber threats with security frameworks and tools
Data Analyst (Power BI / Fabric)
Transform data into actionable insights using Microsoft Power BI and Fabric
Data Engineer (AWS)
Build data pipelines and infrastructure on Amazon Web Services
Data Science
Leverage Python, machine learning, and statistical analysis to solve complex problems
Database Administrator
Manage, secure and optimise SQL Server and Azure SQL databases
DevOps Engineer (AWS)
Automate CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure on Amazon Web Services
DevOps Engineer (Azure)
Automate deployment pipelines and bridge development with operations
DevSecOps Engineer
Embed security into CI/CD pipelines, containers and cloud infrastructure
Digital Forensics & Incident Response
Investigate breaches, gather digital evidence and lead incident response
Digital Marketing & SEO
Drive growth through SEO, social media and data-driven campaigns
Fabric Data Analytics
Master data analytics with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
Fabric Data Engineer
Build data engineering solutions with Microsoft Fabric
Full Stack Developer
Build end-to-end web applications with modern frontend and backend technologies
Game Developer (Unity)
Create immersive games and interactive experiences using Unity engine
GRC Analyst
Manage governance, risk, and compliance frameworks
IT Auditor
Audit IT systems, controls, and security compliance
IT Project Manager
Lead IT projects with PMP, Scrum, and ITIL certifications
IT Security Governance & Privacy
Master security governance, ISO standards, and privacy compliance
IT Security Manager
Lead enterprise security operations with advanced certifications and leadership skills
IT Technician
Master hardware, networking, and cloud fundamentals
MLOps Engineer
Build, automate, and operationalize machine learning pipelines on Microsoft Azure
Mobile App Developer
Build cross-platform mobile apps with React Native and JavaScript
Network Engineer (Cisco)
Design and manage enterprise Cisco networks
Penetration Tester
Ethical hacking — find and exploit vulnerabilities before attackers do
Penetration Tester (Advanced)
Elite offensive security — enterprise pentesting and hands-on exploit skills
Platform Engineer
Build internal developer platforms with Kubernetes, Terraform and Linux
Power Platform Developer
Build low-code apps, automations and workflows with Microsoft Power Platform
Quantitative Developer
Build trading systems and financial models with Python, SQL & ML
Salesforce Administrator
Configure and manage Salesforce CRM platform for business success
SAP Consultant
Implement enterprise resource planning solutions with SAP systems
SOC Analyst
Monitor and respond to security threats in real-time
Software Testing & Automation
Master software testing methodologies and automated testing with Python and Selenium
Systems Administrator
Manage Windows, Linux servers and enterprise infrastructure
Virtualization Administrator
Manage enterprise data centers with VMware vSphere virtualization
UX / UI Designer
Design intuitive, beautiful interfaces with Figma and design systems
WordPress Developer
Build, customise and maintain professional WordPress websites
Azure AI Engineer Pathway
Master artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure
👤 Who this is for: For people who love working with AI and want to build intelligent apps and agents on Microsoft's cloud.
About This Role
Design and implement AI solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, machine learning models, and computer vision. Build intelligent chatbots, recommendation systems, and automated decision-making tools for enterprises.
Key Responsibilities
Develop AI models, integrate cognitive services, optimize machine learning workflows, deploy solutions to production, and collaborate with data science teams.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Software companies, cloud consultancies, and enterprises building AI-powered products and Copilot integrations.
💰 Salary Range
- Programming fundamentals & computational thinking
- Data types, variables & operators
- Conditionals, loops & control flow
- Functions & core data structures
- Writing & debugging your first programs
- Cloud concepts & benefits of cloud computing
- Core Azure services & architecture
- Azure management & governance tools
- Security, identity & compliance fundamentals
- Azure pricing, SLAs & cost management
- AI workloads & Responsible AI principles
- Machine learning fundamentals on Azure
- Computer vision & natural language processing
- Generative AI, agents & Microsoft Foundry concepts
- Embeddings, vectors & models — basis of AI search
- Building generative AI apps with Microsoft Foundry
- Designing & orchestrating multi-agent solutions
- Multimodal capabilities & document intelligence
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) & knowledge grounding
- Conversational AI, agents & Azure OpenAI integration
- Responsible AI & production-ready agent deployment
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
AWS (Generative AI Focus) Pathway
Master AWS cloud infrastructure and generative AI
👤 Who this is for: For people excited about generative AI who want to build AI-powered products on AWS.
About This Role
Design and deploy cloud infrastructure on AWS with a focus on generative AI solutions. Build scalable architectures, implement AI-powered applications, and leverage AWS services for cutting-edge AI implementations.
Key Responsibilities
Design AWS cloud architectures, implement generative AI solutions, deploy scalable infrastructure, optimize AI workloads, integrate AI services, and build production-ready AI applications.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Tech startups, SaaS companies, and enterprises building generative AI products on AWS.
💰 Salary Range
- Programming fundamentals & computational thinking
- Data types, variables & operators
- Conditionals, loops & control flow
- Functions & core data structures
- Writing & debugging your first programs
- Cloud concepts & the AWS global infrastructure
- Core services: compute, storage, networking, databases
- AWS pricing, billing & cost management
- Security, compliance & shared responsibility
- Cloud value & well-architected basics
- Fundamentals of AI, ML & generative AI
- Core AWS AI/ML services (SageMaker, Bedrock)
- Prompt engineering & foundation models
- Responsible AI, fairness & governance
- Security, compliance & cost of AI workloads
- Developing & deploying applications on AWS
- Core services: Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway
- Serverless application development
- CI/CD with CodePipeline & CodeBuild
- Security: IAM, encryption & Cognito
- Monitoring, troubleshooting & optimisation
- Designing generative AI applications on AWS
- Foundation models on Amazon Bedrock
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) & embeddings
- Fine-tuning, prompt engineering & evaluation
- Building AI agents & workflows
- Responsible AI, guardrails & security
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Data Analyst (Power BI / Fabric) Pathway
Transform data into business insights
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy working with data and turning numbers into business insight.
About This Role
Transform raw data into actionable business insights using Power BI dashboards, reports, and Microsoft Fabric. Analyze trends, create visualizations, and support data-driven decision-making across organizations.
Key Responsibilities
Design interactive dashboards, analyze business data, create reports and visualizations, collaborate with stakeholders, and maintain data quality and accuracy.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Retail, banking, insurance, and any large corporate with a dedicated BI or analytics team.
💰 Salary Range
- Core data concepts — relational, non-relational & analytics
- Relational data services on Azure (Azure SQL)
- Non-relational data — Cosmos DB & storage
- Modern data warehousing & analytics
- Power BI & data visualisation fundamentals
- Preparing & cleaning data with Power Query
- Modelling data & relationships
- Writing DAX calculations & measures
- Building reports & dashboards
- Sharing, securing & managing workspaces
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Data Engineer (AWS) Pathway
Build data pipelines and infrastructure on AWS
👤 Who this is for: For people who like building the pipelines and infrastructure that move data at scale.
About This Role
Design and build the data pipelines that move, transform, and store information at scale on Amazon Web Services. Work with core AWS data services to prepare reliable, well-structured data for analytics and machine learning teams.
Key Responsibilities
Write Python and SQL for data processing, build and orchestrate ETL/ELT pipelines, manage data storage and ingestion on AWS, ensure data quality and security, and support analytics and ML teams with clean, accessible data.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Tech companies, fintechs, and enterprises building AWS-based data platforms.
💰 Salary Range
- Python syntax, variables & data types
- Operators, conditionals & loops
- Functions & basic data structures
- Lists, tuples & dictionaries
- Writing & debugging Python programs
- What databases & SQL are
- Writing SELECT queries
- Filtering, sorting & functions
- Joining tables
- Grouping & aggregating data
- Cloud concepts & the AWS global infrastructure
- Core services: compute, storage, networking, databases
- AWS pricing, billing & cost management
- Security, compliance & shared responsibility
- Cloud value & well-architected basics
- Designing & building data pipelines (Glue, EMR, Kinesis)
- Data storage & modelling (S3, Redshift, DynamoDB)
- Data ingestion & transformation at scale
- Data quality, cataloguing & governance
- Security, monitoring & cost optimisation
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Data Science Pathway
Master Python, ML, and statistical analysis
👤 Who this is for: For people who love data, statistics, and finding patterns others miss.
About This Role
Apply statistical analysis, machine learning, and Python programming to solve complex business problems. Build predictive models, analyze large datasets, and extract valuable insights from data.
Key Responsibilities
Develop ML models, perform statistical analysis, clean and process data, communicate findings to stakeholders, and deploy models into production environments.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Banks, insurers, retail analytics teams, and research-driven tech companies.
💰 Salary Range
- Core data concepts — relational, non-relational & analytics
- Relational data services on Azure (Azure SQL)
- Non-relational data — Cosmos DB & storage
- Modern data warehousing & analytics
- Power BI & data visualisation fundamentals
- Managing Azure Machine Learning workspaces
- Data preparation & feature engineering
- Training, tuning & evaluating models
- Deploying & managing models in production
- Responsible machine learning
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Full Stack Developer Pathway
Build complete web applications
👤 Who this is for: For people who want to build complete web applications, from what users see to what powers it behind the scenes.
About This Role
Build complete web applications from frontend to backend using modern frameworks like React, Node.js, and databases. Create responsive user interfaces, APIs, and deploy scalable solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Design UI/UX, develop frontend and backend code, build RESTful APIs, manage databases, implement security, and deploy applications to production.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Software agencies, startups, and in-house development teams across almost every industry.
💰 Salary Range
- HTML, CSS & responsive front-end design
- JavaScript & a modern framework (React/Angular/Vue)
- Back-ends with Node.js & Express
- Working with databases (MongoDB)
- REST APIs, authentication & deployment
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Cybersecurity Analyst Pathway
Protect systems from cyber threats
👤 Who this is for: For people who like the idea of defending systems and catching threats before they cause damage.
About This Role
Protect organizational systems from cyber threats, perform security assessments, monitor networks, and respond to incidents. Implement security frameworks and analyze vulnerabilities.
Key Responsibilities
Monitor security systems, investigate incidents, perform vulnerability assessments, implement security controls, conduct penetration testing, and maintain security documentation.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Banks, telcos, managed security service providers, and corporate IT security teams.
💰 Salary Range
- IT concepts & terminology
- Infrastructure & connectivity basics
- Applications & software fundamentals
- Software development & database concepts
- Security & safety foundations
- PC hardware & device assembly
- Operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux, mobile)
- Networking & connectivity basics
- Software troubleshooting & security
- Operational procedures & best practices
- Networking concepts, models & topologies
- Network implementation & cabling
- IP addressing, routing & switching
- Network operations & monitoring
- Network security & troubleshooting
- Threats, attacks & vulnerabilities
- Security architecture & design
- Implementing secure solutions
- Operations & incident response
- Governance, risk & compliance
- Security operations & threat monitoring
- Vulnerability management & assessment
- Threat intelligence & detection
- Incident response & handling
- Reporting & communication
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Cloud Engineer (Azure) Pathway
Master Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure
👤 Who this is for: For people who want to build and manage infrastructure in the cloud, on Microsoft's platform.
About This Role
Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Configure virtual machines, storage, networking, and implement security best practices for enterprise cloud solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Architect cloud solutions, manage Azure resources, implement automation, optimize costs, ensure security compliance, and support DevOps practices.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Enterprises running Microsoft-based infrastructure, IT consultancies, and Azure-focused managed service providers.
💰 Salary Range
- Cloud concepts & benefits of cloud computing
- Core Azure services & architecture
- Azure management & governance tools
- Security, identity & compliance fundamentals
- Azure pricing, SLAs & cost management
- Managing identities, governance & subscriptions
- Implementing & managing storage
- Deploying & managing virtual machines
- Configuring virtual networking
- Monitoring, backup & disaster recovery
- Designing identity, governance & monitoring
- Designing data storage solutions
- Designing business continuity solutions
- Designing infrastructure & compute
- Aligning to the Well-Architected Framework
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Cloud Security Engineer Pathway
Secure Microsoft Azure environments end-to-end
👤 Who this is for: For people who want to combine cloud infrastructure work with a security-first mindset.
About This Role
Protect cloud infrastructure by implementing identity and access controls, network security, and threat protection across Microsoft Azure. Secure workloads, manage compliance posture, and respond to cloud-native security incidents.
Key Responsibilities
Implement identity and access management, secure networking and infrastructure, manage security operations and posture, respond to incidents, and ensure compliance across cloud workloads.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Banks, cloud consultancies, and enterprises securing Azure environments.
💰 Salary Range
- Cloud concepts & benefits of cloud computing
- Core Azure services & architecture
- Azure management & governance tools
- Security, identity & compliance fundamentals
- Azure pricing, SLAs & cost management
- Security, compliance & identity concepts
- Microsoft Entra identity & access
- Microsoft security solutions overview
- Compliance management capabilities
- Zero Trust principles
- Managing identities, governance & subscriptions
- Implementing & managing storage
- Deploying & managing virtual machines
- Configuring virtual networking
- Monitoring, backup & disaster recovery
- Managing identity & access (Entra ID, RBAC, PIM)
- Implementing platform protection & network security
- Securing data, storage, applications & AI workloads
- Managing security operations with Microsoft Defender & Sentinel
- Securing AI agents & governing generative AI usage
- Threat detection, response & remediation
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Cloud Engineer (AWS) Pathway
Build scalable solutions on AWS
👤 Who this is for: For people who want to build and manage infrastructure in the cloud, on AWS.
About This Role
Build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services. Architect solutions using EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS while ensuring high availability and cost optimization.
Key Responsibilities
Design AWS architectures, manage cloud resources, implement CI/CD pipelines, optimize infrastructure costs, ensure high availability, and maintain security standards.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Startups, SaaS companies, and enterprises running AWS-based infrastructure.
💰 Salary Range
- Cloud concepts & the AWS global infrastructure
- Core services: compute, storage, networking, databases
- AWS pricing, billing & cost management
- Security, compliance & shared responsibility
- Cloud value & well-architected basics
- Designing resilient, high-availability architectures
- Compute, storage & database selection
- Networking, VPCs & content delivery
- Security, IAM & data protection
- Cost-optimised, performant designs
- Complex multi-account enterprise architectures
- Migration & modernisation strategies
- Advanced networking & hybrid connectivity
- Cost control, governance & security at scale
- Resiliency & disaster recovery
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
DevOps Engineer (AWS) Pathway
Automate CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure on AWS
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy automating deployment pipelines and bridging development with operations, on AWS.
About This Role
Automate software deployment pipelines, manage CI/CD workflows, and bridge development and operations teams on Amazon Web Services. Use tools like CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code to streamline delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Build CI/CD pipelines on AWS, manage containerized applications, automate infrastructure provisioning, monitor system performance, and improve deployment processes.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Tech companies, SaaS providers, and enterprises running CI/CD pipelines on AWS.
💰 Salary Range
- Cloud concepts & the AWS global infrastructure
- Core services: compute, storage, networking, databases
- AWS pricing, billing & cost management
- Security, compliance & shared responsibility
- Cloud value & well-architected basics
- Developing & deploying applications on AWS
- Core services: Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway
- Serverless application development
- CI/CD with CodePipeline & CodeBuild
- Security: IAM, encryption & Cognito
- Monitoring, troubleshooting & optimisation
- Implementing CI/CD pipelines on AWS
- Infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, CDK)
- Monitoring, logging & incident response
- Policies & standards automation
- High availability, fault tolerance & disaster recovery
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
DevOps Engineer (Azure) Pathway
Automate and streamline development pipelines
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy automating deployment pipelines and bridging development with operations, on Microsoft's platform.
About This Role
Automate software deployment pipelines, manage CI/CD workflows, and bridge development and operations teams. Use tools like Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, and Git to streamline delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Build CI/CD pipelines, manage containerized applications, automate infrastructure provisioning, monitor system performance, and improve deployment processes.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Enterprises running Microsoft-based DevOps pipelines, IT consultancies, and software teams.
💰 Salary Range
- Cloud concepts & benefits of cloud computing
- Core Azure services & architecture
- Azure management & governance tools
- Security, identity & compliance fundamentals
- Azure pricing, SLAs & cost management
- Developing Azure compute solutions (Functions, App Service)
- Working with Azure storage, databases & vector data
- Calling & operationalising AI services in cloud apps
- Implementing authentication & secure access
- Wiring generative AI into production applications
- Designing & implementing CI/CD pipelines
- Source control & branching with Git
- Infrastructure as code & configuration
- Containers, release management & automation
- Monitoring, feedback & DevSecOps
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
MLOps Engineer Pathway
Build, automate, and operationalize machine learning pipelines
👤 Who this is for: For people who want to take machine learning models from experiment to reliable production system.
About This Role
Bridge the gap between data science and production. Automate machine learning pipelines, manage model deployment and versioning, and ensure ML systems run reliably at scale on Microsoft Azure.
Key Responsibilities
Build and automate ML pipelines, manage model versioning and monitoring, implement CI/CD for machine learning, collaborate with data science and engineering teams, and ensure scalable, reliable model deployment.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Tech companies and enterprises running production machine learning systems.
💰 Salary Range
- Cloud concepts & benefits of cloud computing
- Core Azure services & architecture
- Azure management & governance tools
- Security, identity & compliance fundamentals
- Azure pricing, SLAs & cost management
- Python syntax, variables & data types
- Operators, conditionals & loops
- Functions & basic data structures
- Lists, tuples & dictionaries
- Writing & debugging Python programs
- Operationalising machine learning on Azure
- Building & automating ML pipelines
- Model deployment, versioning & registries
- CI/CD for machine learning
- Monitoring, retraining & governance
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
SAP Consultant Pathway
Master enterprise resource planning
👤 Who this is for: For people who want to work with the enterprise systems that run the world's largest companies.
About This Role
Implement and configure SAP S/4HANA systems for enterprise resource planning. Specialize in Finance (FI/CO) modules, manage business processes, and provide user training and support.
Key Responsibilities
Configure SAP modules, analyze business requirements, implement ERP solutions, provide user training, troubleshoot issues, and optimize business processes.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Large corporates, SAP implementation partners, and consulting firms across manufacturing, retail, and finance.
💰 Salary Range
- What SAP & ERP systems are
- Navigating the SAP interface
- Core SAP modules overview
- Common transactions & menus
- Working with SAP data & reports
- SAP S/4HANA Finance overview
- Financial accounting (FI) configuration
- Controlling (CO) & cost management
- General ledger, AP & AR processes
- Reporting & period-end closing
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Salesforce Administrator Pathway
Master CRM platform administration
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy working with CRM systems and helping sales teams run smoothly.
About This Role
Configure and manage Salesforce CRM platforms, create custom workflows, automate business processes, and support sales teams. Maintain user accounts, security, and data integrity.
Key Responsibilities
Manage user access, customize Salesforce objects, create reports and dashboards, automate workflows, maintain data quality, and provide user support.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Sales-driven companies, consulting firms, and any business running Salesforce as their CRM.
💰 Salary Range
- Introduction to the Salesforce platform
- Navigating Salesforce & core features
- Standard objects (leads, accounts, opportunities)
- Basic customisation & app structure
- CRM concepts & best practices
- Salesforce platform & data model
- User setup, security & access
- Customising objects, fields & layouts
- Automation with flows & rules
- Reports, dashboards & data management
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Game Developer (Unity) Pathway
Create immersive gaming experiences
👤 Who this is for: For people who want to build interactive games and playable experiences.
About This Role
Create immersive 2D/3D games and interactive experiences using Unity engine and C# programming. Design game mechanics, implement physics, optimize performance, and deploy across multiple platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Develop game mechanics, write C# scripts, implement physics and animations, optimize performance, design levels, and deploy games to multiple platforms.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Game studios, mobile app developers, and simulation or training-technology companies.
💰 Salary Range
- C# syntax, variables & data types
- Operators, conditionals & loops
- Methods, classes & objects
- Collections & exception handling
- Object-oriented programming basics
- Unity engine & editor fundamentals
- C# scripting for games
- Physics, collisions & animation
- Game mechanics, UI & audio
- Building & publishing to platforms
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
SOC Analyst Pathway
Monitor, detect, and respond to security incidents
👤 Who this is for: For people who like the idea of monitoring systems and responding to security incidents in real time.
About This Role
Monitor security operations centers 24/7, detect and respond to cyber threats in real-time, analyze security logs, and investigate incidents using SIEM tools. Protect organizational assets from attacks.
Key Responsibilities
Monitor security alerts, investigate incidents, analyze threat intelligence, respond to security breaches, document findings, and collaborate with security teams.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Managed security service providers, banks, and corporate security operations teams.
💰 Salary Range
- Threats, attacks & vulnerabilities
- Security architecture & design
- Implementing secure solutions
- Operations & incident response
- Governance, risk & compliance
- Security, compliance & identity concepts
- Microsoft Entra identity & access
- Microsoft security solutions overview
- Compliance management capabilities
- Zero Trust principles
- Mitigating threats with Microsoft Defender
- Threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel
- Configuring SIEM & SOAR
- Investigating incidents & threat hunting
- Managing security operations
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
IT Technician Pathway
Build a strong foundation in IT support and infrastructure
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy solving hands-on IT problems and helping people with their tech.
About This Role
Provide technical support for hardware, software, and network systems. Troubleshoot computer issues, install and configure equipment, manage user accounts, and maintain IT infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Troubleshoot technical issues, install and configure hardware/software, maintain IT systems, support end users, manage network connectivity, and document solutions.
🏢 Who Hires For This
IT support companies, corporate helpdesks, and managed service providers.
💰 Salary Range
- IT concepts & terminology
- Infrastructure & connectivity basics
- Applications & software fundamentals
- Software development & database concepts
- Security & safety foundations
- PC hardware & device assembly
- Operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux, mobile)
- Networking & connectivity basics
- Software troubleshooting & security
- Operational procedures & best practices
- Networking concepts, models & topologies
- Network implementation & cabling
- IP addressing, routing & switching
- Network operations & monitoring
- Network security & troubleshooting
- Threats, attacks & vulnerabilities
- Security architecture & design
- Implementing secure solutions
- Operations & incident response
- Governance, risk & compliance
- Cloud concepts & benefits of cloud computing
- Core Azure services & architecture
- Azure management & governance tools
- Security, identity & compliance fundamentals
- Azure pricing, SLAs & cost management
- Cloud concepts & Microsoft 365 services
- Copilot & agent fundamentals across Microsoft 365
- Security, compliance & identity for agents
- Productivity, collaboration & Teams
- Deployment & management basics
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Business Analyst Pathway
Bridge the gap between business and technology
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy bridging business needs and technical solutions.
About This Role
Bridge business and technology by analyzing processes, gathering requirements, and recommending solutions. Use SQL and Power BI to analyze data and improve operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
Gather business requirements, analyze processes, create documentation, design solutions, facilitate stakeholder meetings, and deliver business insights.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Banks, insurers, consulting firms, and corporate project teams across most industries.
💰 Salary Range
- What databases & SQL are
- Writing SELECT queries
- Filtering, sorting & functions
- Joining tables
- Grouping & aggregating data
- Connecting to & importing data sources
- Shaping & transforming data with Power Query
- Building data models & relationships
- Creating reports & interactive dashboards
- Sharing & publishing insights
- Business analysis fundamentals
- Underlying competencies & techniques
- Requirements elicitation & collaboration
- Requirements analysis & documentation
- Business analysis planning basics
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R2,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Network Engineer (Cisco) Pathway
Master Cisco networking technologies
👤 Who this is for: For people who like the idea of building and managing the networks that keep everything connected.
About This Role
Design, implement, and maintain enterprise network infrastructure using Cisco technologies. Configure routers, switches, firewalls, and ensure network security and optimal performance.
Key Responsibilities
Configure network devices, troubleshoot connectivity issues, implement security policies, monitor network performance, and maintain network documentation.
🏢 Who Hires For This
ISPs, telcos, corporate IT teams, and network consultancies.
💰 Salary Range
- Networking basics & standards
- Network addressing & subnetting
- Endpoints, media & connectivity
- Diagnosing & troubleshooting connectivity
- Network security & wireless basics
- Network fundamentals & models
- IP connectivity & routing
- IP services (DHCP, NAT, NTP)
- Switching, VLANs & network access
- Security fundamentals & automation basics
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Fabric Data Engineer Pathway
Build data engineering solutions with Microsoft Fabric
👤 Who this is for: For people who like building the pipelines and infrastructure that move data at scale, on Microsoft Fabric.
About This Role
Design and implement data engineering solutions using Microsoft Fabric. Build data pipelines, work with databases, and transform raw data into structured formats for analytics and business intelligence.
Key Responsibilities
Write Python code for data processing, design SQL databases, build ETL pipelines, implement data engineering solutions on Azure Fabric, and optimize data workflows for performance.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Enterprises running Microsoft Fabric-based data platforms, especially in finance and retail.
💰 Salary Range
- Programming fundamentals & computational thinking
- Data types, variables & operators
- Conditionals, loops & control flow
- Functions & core data structures
- Writing & debugging your first programs
- What databases & SQL are
- Writing SELECT queries
- Filtering, sorting & functions
- Joining tables
- Grouping & aggregating data
- Core data concepts — relational, non-relational & analytics
- Relational data services on Azure (Azure SQL)
- Non-relational data — Cosmos DB & storage
- Modern data warehousing & analytics
- Power BI & data visualisation fundamentals
- Implementing data engineering in Fabric
- Ingesting & transforming data (pipelines)
- Working with lakehouses & warehouses
- Real-time & batch data processing
- Securing, monitoring & optimising
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Fabric Data Analytics Pathway
Master data analytics with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy turning data into visual, business-ready insight.
About This Role
Analyze data and create powerful visualizations using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Transform raw data into actionable business insights, build interactive dashboards, and support data-driven decision making.
Key Responsibilities
Write Python scripts for data analysis, design Power BI reports and dashboards, implement data analytics solutions on Azure Fabric, and communicate insights to stakeholders.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Retail, banking, and any large corporate running Microsoft-based BI and analytics.
💰 Salary Range
- Programming fundamentals & computational thinking
- Data types, variables & operators
- Conditionals, loops & control flow
- Functions & core data structures
- Writing & debugging your first programs
- Core data concepts — relational, non-relational & analytics
- Relational data services on Azure (Azure SQL)
- Non-relational data — Cosmos DB & storage
- Modern data warehousing & analytics
- Power BI & data visualisation fundamentals
- Preparing & cleaning data with Power Query
- Modelling data & relationships
- Writing DAX calculations & measures
- Building reports & dashboards
- Sharing, securing & managing workspaces
- Designing & building analytics in Fabric
- Preparing & transforming data
- Building semantic models
- Writing DAX & optimising performance
- Securing & sharing analytics assets
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Systems Administrator Pathway
Manage Windows, Linux servers and enterprise infrastructure
👤 Who this is for: For people who like keeping servers, networks and infrastructure running smoothly behind the scenes.
About This Role
Manage and maintain enterprise IT infrastructure including Windows and Linux servers, networks, and storage systems. Ensure system reliability, security, and performance while supporting business operations.
Key Responsibilities
Install and configure servers, manage user accounts and permissions, monitor system performance, implement backups and disaster recovery, troubleshoot hardware and software issues, and maintain network infrastructure.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Corporate IT departments, managed service providers, and data centre operators.
💰 Salary Range
- PC hardware & device assembly
- Operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux, mobile)
- Networking & connectivity basics
- Software troubleshooting & security
- Operational procedures & best practices
- Networking concepts, models & topologies
- Network implementation & cabling
- IP addressing, routing & switching
- Network operations & monitoring
- Network security & troubleshooting
- Deploying & managing Windows Server
- Identity services (Active Directory)
- Storage, file services & failover
- Hybrid integration with Azure
- Migration, monitoring & troubleshooting
- Linux fundamentals & the command line
- Managing users, files & permissions
- Storage, file systems & software
- Networking, services & security
- Automation with shell scripting & Ansible
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Software Testing & Automation Pathway
Master software testing methodologies and automated testing frameworks
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy finding bugs before users do, and automating the process.
About This Role
Quality assurance professionals who ensure software meets quality standards through manual and automated testing. Combine programming skills with testing methodologies to build robust test automation frameworks using industry-standard tools like Selenium.
Key Responsibilities
Design and execute test cases, develop automated test scripts, perform regression testing, identify software defects, collaborate with development teams, and maintain test automation frameworks.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Software companies, QA consultancies, and any organisation running an in-house development team.
💰 Salary Range
- Python syntax, variables & data types
- Operators, conditionals & loops
- Functions & basic data structures
- Lists, tuples & dictionaries
- Writing & debugging Python programs
- Relational database concepts & SQL Server architecture
- Writing SELECT queries — filtering & sorting
- Joining tables, subqueries & aggregations
- Creating tables, keys & constraints
- INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE & transactions
- Views, stored procedures & functions
- Indexing basics for faster queries
- Fundamentals of software testing
- Testing throughout the software lifecycle
- Static testing & reviews
- Test design techniques (black & white box)
- Test management & defect tracking
- Test automation fundamentals
- Setting up Selenium WebDriver with Python
- Locating & interacting with web elements
- Building test scripts & assertions
- Frameworks, reporting & CI integration
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
IT Security Manager Pathway
Lead enterprise security operations with advanced certifications
👤 Who this is for: For people who want to grow into leading an organisation's overall security strategy. Note: CISSP and CISM specifically require documented experience to certify (see notes in pathway).
About This Role
Lead and manage enterprise cybersecurity programs, develop security strategies, oversee security teams, ensure compliance with regulations, and protect organizational assets from advanced threats.
Key Responsibilities
Develop security policies and strategies, manage security operations teams, conduct risk assessments, oversee incident response, ensure regulatory compliance, manage security budgets, and communicate security posture to executive leadership.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Banks, insurers, large corporates, and government departments needing dedicated security leadership.
💰 Salary Range
- Networking concepts, models & topologies
- Network implementation & cabling
- IP addressing, routing & switching
- Network operations & monitoring
- Network security & troubleshooting
- Threats, attacks & vulnerabilities
- Security architecture & design
- Implementing secure solutions
- Operations & incident response
- Governance, risk & compliance
- Reconnaissance & footprinting techniques
- Scanning, enumeration & vulnerability analysis
- System hacking, malware & sniffing
- Web application & wireless attacks
- Social engineering, evasion & countermeasures
- Mitigating threats with Microsoft Defender
- Threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel
- Configuring SIEM & SOAR
- Investigating incidents & threat hunting
- Managing security operations
- Security & risk management
- Asset security & security architecture
- Communications & network security
- Identity & access management
- Security assessment, operations & software security
- Information security governance
- Information risk management
- Security programme development & management
- Incident management & response
- Aligning security with business goals
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
GRC Analyst Pathway
Manage governance, risk, and compliance frameworks
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy governance, risk and policy work more than hands-on technical building.
About This Role
Develop and implement governance, risk management, and compliance programs. Ensure organizations meet regulatory requirements, manage enterprise risks, and maintain security frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
Conduct risk assessments, develop compliance frameworks, monitor regulatory changes, implement ISO 27001 controls, manage audit processes, and report to leadership on GRC posture.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Banks, insurers, and any regulated industry needing governance, risk, and compliance oversight.
💰 Salary Range
- Threats, attacks & vulnerabilities
- Security architecture & design
- Implementing secure solutions
- Operations & incident response
- Governance, risk & compliance
- Information security management systems (ISMS)
- ISO/IEC 27001 requirements & structure
- Risk assessment & treatment
- Implementing security controls (Annex A)
- Audit, certification & continual improvement
- IT risk identification & assessment
- Risk response & mitigation
- Risk monitoring & reporting
- Information systems controls design
- Aligning IT risk with business objectives
- Information security governance
- Information risk management
- Security programme development & management
- Incident management & response
- Aligning security with business goals
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
IT Security Governance & Privacy Pathway
Master security governance, ISO standards, and privacy compliance
👤 Who this is for: For people interested in how organisations protect data and stay compliant with privacy law.
About This Role
Implement comprehensive security governance programs, manage ISO 27001 frameworks, ensure data privacy compliance (GDPR, POPIA), and lead security policy development across organizations.
Key Responsibilities
Develop security governance frameworks, implement ISO 27001 controls, manage privacy compliance programs, conduct data protection impact assessments, and ensure regulatory adherence.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Banks, healthcare providers, and any organisation handling regulated personal data (POPIA, GDPR).
💰 Salary Range
- Threats, attacks & vulnerabilities
- Security architecture & design
- Implementing secure solutions
- Operations & incident response
- Governance, risk & compliance
- Fundamentals of information security
- ISO/IEC 27001 concepts & terminology
- ISMS principles & structure
- Overview of controls & risk management
- Certification process basics
- Planning & initiating an ISMS
- Implementing ISO/IEC 27001 controls
- Risk assessment & treatment
- Performance monitoring & measurement
- Preparing for certification audit
- European data protection law & the GDPR
- Privacy principles & lawful processing
- Data subject rights & controller/processor duties
- International data transfers & compliance
- Supervisory authorities & enforcement
- Information security governance
- Information risk management
- Security programme development & management
- Incident management & response
- Aligning security with business goals
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
IT Auditor Pathway
Audit IT systems, controls, and security compliance
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy examining systems and processes to make sure they're secure and compliant.
About This Role
Conduct comprehensive IT audits, assess security controls, evaluate compliance with standards like ISO 27001, identify risks, and provide assurance on IT systems and processes to stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Perform IT audits, evaluate internal controls, conduct ISO 27001 audits, assess risk management frameworks, prepare audit reports, and recommend improvements to IT governance and security.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Audit firms, banks, insurers, and large corporates with internal audit functions.
💰 Salary Range
- Threats, attacks & vulnerabilities
- Security architecture & design
- Implementing secure solutions
- Operations & incident response
- Governance, risk & compliance
- Fundamentals of information security
- ISO/IEC 27001 concepts & terminology
- ISMS principles & structure
- Overview of controls & risk management
- Certification process basics
- Auditing principles & ISO 19011
- Planning & preparing an ISMS audit
- Conducting the audit & gathering evidence
- Reporting findings & non-conformities
- Audit follow-up & certification
- Information systems auditing process
- Governance & management of IT
- IS acquisition, development & implementation
- Operations & business resilience
- Protection of information assets
- IT risk identification & assessment
- Risk response & mitigation
- Risk monitoring & reporting
- Information systems controls design
- Aligning IT risk with business objectives
- Information security governance
- Information risk management
- Security programme development & management
- Incident management & response
- Aligning security with business goals
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
IT Project Manager Pathway
Lead IT projects with PMP, Scrum, and ITIL certifications
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy organising people, timelines and resources to get technology projects delivered. Note: PMP specifically requires documented project experience to certify (see note in pathway).
About This Role
Plan, execute, and deliver IT projects using industry-standard methodologies including PMP, Agile/Scrum, and ITIL. Manage teams, budgets, timelines, and stakeholder expectations to ensure successful project outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Define project scope and objectives, develop project plans, manage resources and budgets, coordinate cross-functional teams, mitigate risks, ensure quality deliverables, and report to stakeholders.
🏢 Who Hires For This
IT consultancies, corporate project offices, and any large organisation running technology projects.
💰 Salary Range
- IT concepts & terminology
- Infrastructure & connectivity basics
- Applications & software fundamentals
- Software development & database concepts
- Security & safety foundations
- Project management fundamentals
- Predictive (waterfall) methodologies
- Agile & adaptive frameworks
- Business analysis essentials
- Scope, schedule & cost basics
- Scrum framework, roles & artefacts
- The Scrum Master role & servant leadership
- Facilitating Scrum events
- Coaching teams & removing impediments
- Agile principles & improvement
- IT service management key concepts
- The ITIL 4 service value system
- Guiding principles & four dimensions
- Core practices (incident, change, problem)
- Continual improvement
- People — leading & managing teams
- Process — predictive, agile & hybrid delivery
- Business environment & strategic alignment
- Scope, schedule, cost & quality
- Risk, stakeholder & communications
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
AI SQL Developer Pathway
Build AI-enabled database solutions on Microsoft SQL platforms
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy working with data and want to bring AI into database-driven applications.
About This Role
Design and develop AI-enabled database solutions across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric. Build vector and semantic search, implement RAG workflows, and integrate large language models directly into SQL-based applications — without moving your data.
Key Responsibilities
Write advanced T-SQL, build vector and hybrid search experiences, implement RAG to ground LLM outputs, expose SQL data through APIs, apply CI/CD practices, and deliver secure, scalable, high-performance data solutions.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Enterprises building AI-powered data applications, especially in finance and retail.
💰 Salary Range
- Relational database concepts & SQL Server architecture
- Writing SELECT queries — filtering & sorting
- Joining tables, subqueries & aggregations
- Creating tables, keys & constraints
- INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE & transactions
- Views, stored procedures & functions
- Indexing basics for faster queries
- Core data concepts — relational, non-relational & analytics
- Relational data services on Azure (Azure SQL)
- Non-relational data — Cosmos DB & storage
- Modern data warehousing & analytics
- Power BI & data visualisation fundamentals
- AI workloads & Responsible AI principles
- Machine learning fundamentals on Azure
- Computer vision & natural language processing
- Generative AI & large language model concepts
- Embeddings, vectors & models — basis of AI search
- Advanced T-SQL for AI-ready databases
- Vector & semantic (hybrid) search in SQL
- RAG workflows to ground LLM outputs
- Integrating LLMs into SQL apps without moving data
- Exposing SQL data via Data API builder
- Security — Always Encrypted & encryption
- Performance tuning & CI/CD with SQL projects
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Database Administrator Pathway
Manage and secure enterprise SQL databases
👤 Who this is for: For people who like keeping data organised, accessible and running smoothly behind the scenes.
About This Role
Install, configure, secure, and optimise database systems across SQL Server and Azure SQL. Ensure data availability, integrity, performance, and disaster recovery for business-critical applications.
Key Responsibilities
Manage database security and access, tune query performance, implement backups and high availability, monitor database health, automate maintenance, and support developers with data solutions.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Corporate IT departments, software companies, and managed service providers.
💰 Salary Range
- Relational database concepts & SQL Server architecture
- Writing SELECT queries — filtering & sorting
- Joining tables, subqueries & aggregations
- Creating tables, keys & constraints
- INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE & transactions
- Views, stored procedures & functions
- Indexing basics for faster queries
- Core data concepts — relational, non-relational & analytics
- Relational data services on Azure (Azure SQL)
- Non-relational data — Cosmos DB & storage
- Modern data warehousing & analytics
- Power BI & data visualisation fundamentals
- Planning & deploying Azure SQL resources
- Configuring secure access & data encryption
- Monitoring & optimising performance
- Automating tasks & maintenance
- High availability, backup & disaster recovery
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Penetration Tester Pathway
Master ethical hacking and offensive security
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy thinking like an attacker to find weaknesses before real attackers do.
About This Role
Simulate real-world cyber attacks to find and exploit vulnerabilities before malicious hackers do. Conduct authorised penetration tests across networks, systems, and applications, then report findings and remediation guidance.
Key Responsibilities
Plan and scope engagements, perform reconnaissance and exploitation, test web and network security, document vulnerabilities, recommend fixes, and produce professional penetration testing reports.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Cybersecurity consultancies, banks, and any organisation running regular security assessments.
💰 Salary Range
- Threats, attacks & vulnerabilities
- Security architecture & design
- Implementing secure solutions
- Operations & incident response
- Governance, risk & compliance
- Planning & scoping penetration tests
- Information gathering & vulnerability scanning
- Attacks & exploits (network, web, wireless)
- Reporting, communication & remediation
- Tools & basic code analysis
- Reconnaissance & footprinting techniques
- Scanning, enumeration & vulnerability analysis
- System hacking, malware & sniffing
- Web application & wireless attacks
- Social engineering, evasion & countermeasures
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Mobile App Developer Pathway
Build cross-platform mobile apps
👤 Who this is for: For people who want to build the apps people use every day on their phones.
About This Role
Build fast, responsive mobile apps for iOS and Android from a single codebase using React Native and JavaScript. Design intuitive interfaces, connect to APIs, and publish apps to the App Store and Google Play.
Key Responsibilities
Develop cross-platform mobile interfaces, integrate REST APIs, manage app state, optimise performance, handle device features, and deploy to app stores.
🏢 Who Hires For This
App development agencies, startups, and in-house mobile teams.
💰 Salary Range
- JavaScript syntax, variables & data types
- Operators, conditionals & loops
- Functions & scope
- Arrays, objects & DOM basics
- Debugging & writing clean code
- React components, JSX & props
- State & hooks
- Handling events & forms
- Working with APIs & data fetching
- Routing & single-page apps
- React Native fundamentals & components
- Navigation & screen management
- State management & API integration
- Accessing device features
- Building & publishing to app stores
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Virtualization Administrator Pathway
Manage enterprise data centers with VMware vSphere
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy managing the infrastructure layer that powers enterprise data centres.
About This Role
Design, deploy and manage virtualized data center infrastructure using VMware vSphere. Run and optimise the ESXi hosts and vCenter environments that underpin most enterprise on-premises and hybrid IT — the layer sitting beneath the servers, storage and networking every other IT team relies on.
Key Responsibilities
Configure and maintain vSphere/ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, provision and manage virtual machines, plan storage and networking for virtualized workloads, monitor performance and capacity, and support hybrid integration with Windows Server and cloud environments.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Enterprises running on-premises data centres, managed service providers, and IT infrastructure teams.
💰 Salary Range
- Networking concepts, protocols & the OSI model
- IP addressing, subnetting & VLANs
- Network devices & topologies
- Wireless networking & security
- Troubleshooting & network management
- Deploying & managing Windows Server
- Identity services (Active Directory)
- Storage, file services & failover
- Hybrid integration with Azure
- Migration, monitoring & troubleshooting
- vSphere architecture: ESXi & vCenter Server
- Deploying & configuring virtual machines
- Storage & networking for virtualized environments
- Resource management, monitoring & optimisation
- High availability, backup & troubleshooting
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
DevSecOps Engineer Pathway
Embed security into every stage of the delivery pipeline
👤 Who this is for: For people who want to bring a security mindset into how software gets built and shipped.
About This Role
Secure the CI/CD pipeline, container ecosystem and cloud infrastructure. Bridge development, security and operations by embedding security controls, vulnerability scanning and compliance checks directly into the deployment workflow, rather than bolting security on at the end.
Key Responsibilities
Integrate security scanning into CI/CD pipelines, secure container images and registries, manage secrets and access controls, harden Kubernetes clusters, and collaborate with dev and ops teams to ship secure software fast.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Tech companies and enterprises embedding security into their software delivery pipelines.
💰 Salary Range
- Fundamentals of application development
- Application security risks & threat modelling
- DevOps vs DevSecOps principles
- The DevSecOps toolchain
- Implementing security in CI/CD pipelines
- Docker architecture & container fundamentals
- Building & managing Docker images
- Container networking & storage
- Docker Compose for multi-container apps
- Container security best practices
- Threats, attacks & vulnerabilities
- Security architecture & design
- Implementing secure solutions
- Operations & incident response
- Governance, risk & compliance
- Kubernetes architecture & cluster management
- Deploying & scaling workloads
- Networking, storage & RBAC
- Securing clusters & workloads
- Troubleshooting production Kubernetes environments
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Digital Forensics & Incident Response Pathway
Investigate breaches, gather evidence and lead incident response
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy investigative work and want to trace digital evidence after a security incident. Note: CHFI and ECIH specifically require documented information security experience to certify (see notes in pathway).
About This Role
Investigate cybercrime and security incidents from first response through to legally admissible evidence. Combine digital forensics, incident handling and breach investigation skills used by law enforcement, enterprise security teams and consultancies.
Key Responsibilities
Respond to and contain security incidents, acquire and preserve digital evidence, perform forensic analysis of compromised systems, document findings for legal proceedings, and build organisational incident response readiness.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Corporate incident response teams, consultancies, and banks handling security investigations.
💰 Salary Range
- Fundamentals of computer forensics & digital evidence
- Windows, Linux & Mac forensics basics
- Network & mobile forensics fundamentals
- Investigative reporting
- Forensic readiness planning
- Incident handling & response process
- Handling malware & network security incidents
- Handling web application & cloud incidents
- Insider threats & forensic readiness
- First response & post-incident activities
- Computer forensics investigation process
- Dark web, malware & memory forensics
- Mobile & IoT forensics
- Cloud forensics (AWS & Azure)
- Investigating web application & network attacks
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Penetration Tester (Advanced) Pathway
Elite offensive security — enterprise pentesting and hands-on exploitation
👤 Who this is for: For people who already enjoy offensive security work and want to go deeper into enterprise-grade testing — built for those who've completed foundational penetration testing training already, not a first step into security.
About This Role
Go beyond foundational ethical hacking into enterprise-grade penetration testing and hands-on exploit development. Built for candidates who already have penetration testing fundamentals (our standard Penetration Tester pathway, CEH, or equivalent experience) and want the advanced, hands-on credentials employers specifically name in senior offensive security roles.
Key Responsibilities
Plan and execute full-scope enterprise penetration tests, write custom exploits and evade defensive controls, pivot through segmented networks, and report findings to technical and executive stakeholders.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Specialist cybersecurity consultancies and enterprises running advanced red-team engagements.
💰 Salary Range
- Advanced network penetration testing
- Evading defense mechanisms & IDS/IPS
- Pivoting across multiple network segments
- Privilege escalation & double pivoting
- Enterprise-scale reporting & methodology
- Enumeration & vulnerability identification at scale
- Web, network & Active Directory exploitation
- Buffer overflows & exploit development basics
- Antivirus & EDR evasion techniques
- Building a practical, exam-style engagement report
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Platform Engineer Pathway
Build the internal platforms that other engineers build on
👤 Who this is for: For people who like building the tools and platforms that make other engineers' lives easier.
About This Role
Design and build internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure and automated provisioning systems. Platform engineers give application teams paved paths to ship faster by abstracting away infrastructure complexity behind Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code and Linux systems.
Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain Kubernetes clusters, write and maintain Terraform modules, automate infrastructure provisioning, build internal developer tooling, and ensure platform reliability and self-service capability for engineering teams.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Tech companies and enterprises running internal developer platforms at scale.
💰 Salary Range
- Linux system architecture & installation
- Command line, scripting & automation
- File systems, storage & permissions
- Networking & service management
- Security & troubleshooting
- Docker architecture & container fundamentals
- Building & managing Docker images
- Container networking & storage
- Docker Compose for multi-container apps
- Container security best practices
- Terraform architecture & workflow
- Writing & organising Terraform modules
- State management & remote backends
- Provisioning multi-cloud infrastructure
- Collaboration & CI/CD integration with Terraform
- Kubernetes architecture & cluster management
- Deploying & scaling workloads
- Networking, storage & RBAC
- Building internal developer platforms
- Troubleshooting production Kubernetes environments
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Power Platform Developer Pathway
Build low-code apps, automations and workflows on Microsoft Power Platform
👤 Who this is for: For people who want to build business apps and automations without writing lots of code.
About This Role
Design and build business applications, automated workflows and custom connectors using Microsoft Power Platform. Bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions with low-code/no-code tools already trusted by South African corporates running Microsoft 365 and Dynamics.
Key Responsibilities
Build canvas & model-driven apps in Power Apps, automate workflows with Power Automate, extend Power Platform with custom connectors and code components, integrate with Dataverse and other data sources, and apply application lifecycle management (ALM) best practices.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Corporates already running Microsoft 365 or Dynamics, and consultancies building business applications.
💰 Salary Range
- Power Platform business value & components
- Power BI, Power Apps & Power Automate basics
- Copilot Studio (Power Virtual Agents) basics
- Dataverse fundamentals
- Data connectors & AI Builder overview
- Building automated & scheduled flows
- Working with connectors & triggers
- Approval workflows & business processes
- Error handling & flow monitoring
- Integrating with Microsoft 365 & Dataverse
- Creating & configuring canvas & model-driven apps
- Power Automate flows & business logic
- Extending the platform with Power Apps component framework
- Integrating with Dataverse & external data
- Application lifecycle management (ALM)
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
Quantitative Developer Pathway
Build trading systems and financial models with Python, SQL & ML
👤 Who this is for: For people who enjoy combining programming with financial markets and data.
About This Role
Build the technology behind quantitative finance — pricing engines, trading infrastructure, risk systems and data pipelines. Combine strong Python and SQL skills with machine learning and financial domain knowledge to implement and maintain the models traders and analysts rely on.
Key Responsibilities
Translate financial models into production code, build and maintain data pipelines, implement and backtest trading strategies, apply machine learning to market data, and ensure systems are fast, accurate and reliable.
🏢 Who Hires For This
Investment banks, asset managers, and fintech trading firms.
💰 Salary Range
- Python syntax, variables & data types
- Operators, conditionals & loops
- Functions & basic data structures
- Lists, tuples & dictionaries
- Writing & debugging Python programs
- Relational database concepts & Oracle architecture
- Writing SELECT queries — filtering & sorting
- Joining tables, subqueries & aggregations
- Functions, views & data manipulation (DML)
- Database design, keys & constraints
- Operationalising machine learning on Azure
- Building & automating ML pipelines
- Model deployment, versioning & registries
- CI/CD for machine learning
- Monitoring, retraining & governance
- Financial markets & instruments fundamentals
- Algorithmic & systematic trading strategies
- Backtesting frameworks & risk metrics (VaR, Greeks)
- Portfolio optimisation & quantitative risk management
- Applying Python & SQL skills to real market data
💰 Full Pathway Pricing
Discount Policy: The R4,000 discount applies only when purchasing the complete pathway including all exams. Discount does not apply if exams are excluded.
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