Failed CEH v11 - Help Me Deconstruct/Analyze
Hi all,
I attempted and failed the CEH v11 after two long months of study and practice exams. Here's what my study material looks like below.
READING
CEH vll Study Guide (by Ric Messier), published
by Sybex.
PRACTICE EXAM
CyberVista CEH v11 (covering 350 questions)
During the exam (which was the proctored one you take at home) I got a guzillion questions about miscellaneous security tools for pentesting, vulnerability management, and other areas of security assessment. Tools, tools, and more tools. I did not even encounter any of the ones that were mentioned in the Sybex CEH v11 book. There were also questions about Nmap.
Anyway, I wanted the community to chime in on where I went wrong with the studying phase. I look forward to giving this another try. Which study material do you feel I can use now to familiarize myself with the many many tools mentioned, and is the issue that I took the home-proctored version instead of the PearsonVUE version at the test center.
I attempted and failed the CEH v11 after two long months of study and practice exams. Here's what my study material looks like below.
READING
CEH vll Study Guide (by Ric Messier), published
PRACTICE EXAM
CyberVista CEH v11 (covering 350 questions)
During the exam (which was the proctored one you take at home) I got a guzillion questions about miscellaneous security tools for pentesting, vulnerability management, and other areas of security assessment. Tools, tools, and more tools. I did not even encounter any of the ones that were mentioned in the Sybex CEH v11 book. There were also questions about Nmap.
Anyway, I wanted the community to chime in on where I went wrong with the studying phase. I look forward to giving this another try. Which study material do you feel I can use now to familiarize myself with the many many tools mentioned, and is the issue that I took the home-proctored version instead of the PearsonVUE version at the test center.
B.Sc (Info. Systems), CISSP, CCNA, CCNP, Security+
Comments
One advantage I had going into the exam was I had completed GCIH one year prior and there was lots of overlap plus I was in an incident response team at the time so I was dealing with these topics daily.
My primary study materials were:
- Matt Walker AIO exam guide & practice exams (both 2nd ed)
- Boson practice exams (found a coupon code online)
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Also, did you do a lot of practice test from different question bank. Often we think we are ready for an exam, but it is mostly because we have memorized the question bank we are using.
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My job paid for a CEH bootcamp a few months later. I passed that barely. Passed the CASP exam beta that same year. I think there is some bleed between all of these cybersecurity exams. But obviously you and I have years of job experience.
ejpt is another cheaper option that is excellent and can probably bridge the gap and lead to a CEH pass.