Finished Class, about to take CEH

Hi All, I just finished taking a Learning Tree Course for CEH. The class was horrible and did not teach us anything. I am going the self study route to fill in the spaces. A few months ago, I remember seeing on this forum that if you pass you CEH class, you can apply for a DOD pen testing cert that they just give you. You then end up with 2 certs after taking only 1 test. Does anyone remember what that other cert was called. I have heard a lot of bad things from people saying that they were looked down on for having CEH on their resume. thx for any help

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JDMurray

You might be referring to the Certified Network Defense Architect (CNDA) certification. This is name the Federal government uses for the CEH certification. If a Federal (DoD) employee already has the CEH, they can pay and additional $100 to the EC-Council and be awarded the CNDA certificate. Here's the FAQ: Certified Network Defense Architect | EC-Council

mscdex

thank you so much. I have never had such a hard time searching for something

mscdex

ouch, price is now $200

JDMurray

Ouch is right! I guess the Feds have no problem using our tax money to pay that "processing fee" to the ECC.

TechGuy215

It appears you have to actually work for a government entity to obtain the CNDA, looks like I won't be going after that one....and a "200 Dollar Processing Fee", yikes!

JDMurray

Correct, the CNDA is only obtainable by US Federal/Military employees, and probably just not any Fed employee either. It's the same as the CEH cert, so no reason for us non-Feds to have it. Plus, I'm not comfortable having a cert with the word "Architect" when the cert itself has very little to do with computer network architectures.

TechGuy215

^ +1 JDMurray. I agree, from studying and prepping for the CEH, it appears to have very litte coverage of network architectures/designs.

mscdex

maybe architect means something else in Malaysian????

jvrlopez

I thought about it briefly when it was $100 since I would qualify, but $200 in "processing fees" that may or may not be covered by my GI Bill and/or employer is a little out of the way for me right now.