Forty questions, sixty minutes, and permission to look things up. The format removes recall and leaves comprehension, which is the harder problem on a ninety second clock.
Open Book Does Not Make This Security Exam Easy
CWE
Security Test Engineer Certification: The Exam That Replaced CT-SEC
Half the study material online still describes a syllabus ISTQB retired. CT-STE replaced it in January 2025, nothing transfers automatically, and two of its nine areas carry most of the difficulty.
