Skill readiness
Academy completion, guided practice and assessed workplace performance are separate. Practice first, then choose an assessment when you feel ready. Your best assessed workstation score per assignment counts; you can reassess.
Your profile
Job Workstation reports your best assessed score per assignment and the average across assessed assignments. Skill scores come from those assessed scenarios. Lesson completion and guided practice do not count as assessed workplace ability. Earlier career records remain available as historical progress.
The profile shown is an example SOC Analyst result.
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SIEM Investigation
Investigate Suspicious PowerShell Activity
Guided labs can include knowledge checks and decision exercises. Job Workstation uses simulated tools and workplace deliverables. Assessed work is graded on resolution, safe actions, evidence, outcome verification and documentation. Feedback explains how to improve.
| Part | What it checks |
|---|---|
| Evidence coverage | Did you review the evidence that matters and tag the items that support your decision? |
| Classification | Did you correctly identify what you were looking at, such as a true positive, a false positive, a misconfiguration or an acceptable risk? |
| Severity or risk rating | Does your rating match the impact, scope and likelihood? |
| Response decisions | Did you choose proportionate containment, remediation or escalation steps, and avoid unnecessary ones? |
| Documentation | Could another analyst, a manager or an auditor understand what happened and what you did from your notes? |
Career levels and earlier skill records remain available as historical progress. They are separate from Job Workstation demonstrated performance. Use the learning dashboard to continue lessons and the workstation feedback to choose what to practise or reassess.
Your profile highlights your weakest skill and recommends a scenario that targets it. A practical routine is to complete one new lab or simulation, then one recommended scenario for your weakest skill. If documentation is your weak spot, write notes as if your manager will read them, because on the job they will.
Readiness scores guide practice. They do not replace certifications, but they give you specific work to discuss in interviews. See cybersecurity certifications by role for how the two fit together.
FAQ
No. It is a practice measure that shows how consistently you perform the work of a role. It complements certifications rather than replacing them.
A lower reassessment does not replace your best result for the same assignment. Adding a newly assessed assignment can change the average. Practice results do not lower demonstrated performance.
Your best assessed result per workstation assignment counts. Use several relevant assessed assignments to build evidence of consistent performance. There is no assessment pressure during guided practice.
Yes. Readiness is calculated per career path. Switching paths keeps your history, and shared skills count toward both.
Know where you stand
Learn the basics, try guided practice, then choose an assessed workstation assignment. Unassessed performance stays labelled Not assessed yet.
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