CEH Practical is 6 hours long exam which consist of 20 questions from which you have to correctly answer minimum of 14 questions for successfully getting the certificate. The Topic’s you need to focus for clearing the exam are-
- Footprinting & Reconnaissance Technique’s
- Enumeration
- Vulnerability Analysis
- System Hacking
- Hacking Web Server’s & Web Applications
- Cryptography & Steganography
My Experience -
I only bought the CEH-Practical exam Voucher (It is not necessary to take EC-Council’s exam preparation bundle). If you take the preparation bundle it will include ilabs where you can learn and practice different Ethical hacking methods & techniques. Apart from that you also get an E-Book for studying. My suggestion is, If you don’t want to spend more money then just buy the exam voucher because all the content which you need for the preparation of the exam you can get it on YouTube or Google. So, after buying exam voucher I got my aspen dashboard activation code within 2–3 days from EC-council through a mail which also include the steps that you need to follow for activation of the aspen dashboard. After that you will get the option to schedule the exam on aspen dashboard, On clicking that you will be redirected to “examspecialists” website where you need to create your account, then after creating the account login to the “examspecialists” website where you will find the options for scheduling the session, Testing your System/Equipment. Remember one important point, You need to schedule your exam at least 3 days before the day when you are planning to give the exam. There is no such option where you can schedule your exam today and give the exam tomorrow. Once you schedule your exam the timer will start on the “examspecialists” dashboard and the timer will be at 0:0:0:0 after which you will be allowed to start the exam. After clicking on Start the exam it will redirect you to the “gomeetings” website where you need to download “gomeeting”. You need to give screen sharing, remote access, video and audio permissions to the “gomeetings” software.Then you will get into a meeting where your proctor will join you. If you are able to hear the proctor He/she will ask you to show your Government id then he/she will tell you the exam rules and guidelines verbally as well on chat. They will ask you to show the 360 degree view of your surroundings(make sure there is no disturbance and any people in the room). After this the proctor will ask you to give remote access of your machine and will enter the credential on aspen dashboard for launching your exam. After all the procedures I was able to start my exam. In case the proctor didn’t join the meeting you can contact the EC-council support team from the aspen dashboard, they will guide you for the further process(which happened in my case). Apart from this it was a good experience for me as both Windows & Parrot machines were working much better than I expected which was positive for me. You are allowed to take a total of 15min’s break and for that you just need to drop a message to proctor in the chat, Once they agree you can take the break and when you are ready to join again you can start the exam. So I completed my exam in 4–5 hours of time then I told my proctor that I would like to submit the exam. After completing the submission process I got my score. The Proctor Congratulated me then guided me for downloading my certificate & the transcript. Mentioning below all the contents, link’s or reference that will help you for exam preparation.
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Vulnerabilities you should know -
- SQL Injection
- IDOR
- Session Hijacking
- Command Injection
- File Upload
- XSS
- Parameter Tampering
Important Tool’s-
- Zenmap/Nmap
- Sqlmap
- Hydra
- Hashcat
- HashCalc
- John The Ripper
- Veracrypt
- Wireshark
- Wpscan
- Quick Stego
- Rainbow Tables
- TCPView
- Metasploit
Recorded ilabs video -
This will give you idea about the exam environment as well
Download the below PDF as it is the most important and helpful —
More Content For Preparation -