Sitting the PenTest+ Beta in a Month

AaronW1994

So back in November I passed my Security+ Exam to grasp the fundamentals of Security. Since i'm currently undertaking an Internship, I figured this would give my knowledge a good boost and it would look nice on a CV as well.

Now that i'm pretty set on going down the PenTest route, i'm taking the PenTest+ Beta in the next month. I plan to use CEH Study Guides and online Tests, as well as focusing on picking up some basic experience with Python and Ruby before taking the exam, since I have read that the exam itself is apparently full of Scripting heavy practical questions.

I have also picked up the PenTest+ Objectives guide, but i'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to what else I could do to prepare for this? Any other Tutorials or anything else at all that could help a little more?

Thanks.

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fitzlopez

Search the other threads, everybody says you have to get your hands dirty. I think a colleague has his old GPEN material so I'm going to give it a read, then skim the current CEH material, and try my hands at hackthebox and vulnhub. If I fail then no big loss, at least it got me to study some pentesting.

EnderWiggin

The only way to prepare for this exam is to perform penetration tests.

jamshid666

EnderWiggin wrote: »

The only way to prepare for this exam is to perform penetration tests.

That's what she said.

K-9

From what I see, it might depend on your experience with certain tools, scripting, etc. It looks to me like a test on a wide variety of pen testing tools and OSs. Just because I have performed pen tests doesn't mean I have experience with the variety of items they list. I guess I will find out for myself in a month.