Taking CEH on Saturday. Any words of wisdom?
Hey guys. I've been completely stressing out about the CEH exam as I'm taking it in 2 days. I was wondering if there were any words of wisdom from those who have gone before me?
Currently, I've read Matt Walker's AIO book cover to cover a few times, I've done a ton of training through groups like cybrary and making my own home lab. I actually worked as a linux admin during heartbleed, shell shock, and poodle so I had to figure them out and fix them, and right now I'm consisitently scoring 80-90% on skillset, the ECC practice, and any other practice exams I've done.
Should I be worried about anything in my last 48 hour cram? Particular places to focus? Weirdness in the exam itself? Quirks, etc?
Like I said, I'm just kind of stressed having seen so many people crash on this thing. I want this, not because I know the questions, but because I know the material. I've worked my ass off for a long time and this can get me further in the door to where I want to be.
Hope all is well with you, and I'll let you all know how I do!
Currently, I've read Matt Walker's AIO book cover to cover a few times, I've done a ton of training through groups like cybrary and making my own home lab. I actually worked as a linux admin during heartbleed, shell shock, and poodle so I had to figure them out and fix them, and right now I'm consisitently scoring 80-90% on skillset, the ECC practice, and any other practice exams I've done.
Should I be worried about anything in my last 48 hour cram? Particular places to focus? Weirdness in the exam itself? Quirks, etc?
Like I said, I'm just kind of stressed having seen so many people crash on this thing. I want this, not because I know the questions, but because I know the material. I've worked my ass off for a long time and this can get me further in the door to where I want to be.
Hope all is well with you, and I'll let you all know how I do!
Comments
Skip the reading. Just download Nmap.
How did it go?
I beasted that motherf*****r!!!!!!!!! I fought the D*** law and I won!!!!! I am now a Certified Ethical Hacker b******s! EdoubleU, will that be enough expletives, hahaha!?
Anyway, the exam was nowhere near as deep as I was expecting, but it was a much broader scope than I anticipated. I couldn't take anything in, including my watch. They had to check my glasses!
The exam only took me an hour and I was out, but they aren't wrong about v8 materials covering most of it. I got a few questions that I knew from outside, but basically if you read the AIO, do some practice tests, read infosec news, and just generally really enjoy this stuff you should be ok. There was coverage of risk assessment which was a bit weird, but the calculator you can use is on the screen so it's no big.
Know the breadth of it, read the questions carefully because in any test sometimes the context will give you hints to the answers and most importantly THINK LOGICALLY!!!!!!!!!! Reason stuff out. Dont get stressed, breath deep and move slowly.
I'm looking forward to seeing alot more passes going forward!
Also, the things I've used to study (I'm broke) were Matt Walkers AIO, Skillset practice exams (Which did nothing to prep me for the questions, but the content gave me some additional info about where I needed to work harder and that made the difference), cybrary.it and security-tube.net for video. I built my own lab using my laptop and vrtualbox and learned that stuff. Keep rocking guys! You got this!