So i passed my CEH test this past weekend with a 90%. It was actually a little more complicated than i thought. It was the standard multiple choice tech test, nothing suprising. But they did ask a bit more law questions than i expected, and of course theres the “super specific throw you off” questions like, “My cousin developed his own homebrew hacking tool that was featured on the oxygen tv network, what was it called?” In any case, this is another test that i have not paid out the ass for. If you pay to take boot camps, you are an idiot. All in all i paid $268 to get this certification. Yes $250 for the exam, $18 for an exam cram book off amazon. I first scoured the web to find all the training books and videos that i could. Started off with the Syngress CEH, which is fairly lame. Read that in PDF format from some website, then i found the CEH training videos online and watched those. Then i built a lab in my basement from some old computers and tried to use as much of this stuff as i could (snort / tcpdump / nessus / netcat) the standard stuff. I suppose it also helps that i’m a security analyst day to day as well, so i am always learning new stuff and seeing new exploits. Then i read the exam cram book, highly recommended. Finally i took a few practice tests. I started out getting around 70% and before i took my test i was getting 90% or higher.

Let me find you some prices of CEH training.

From the Eccouncil.org site, here is the price of the self study kit.

CEHv5 Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures - CEHv5 $440.00
CEH CBT Online Videos (Specializedsolution dot com)
CEHv5 Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures - CBT Video Training Access for 1 yr - $1795.00

and…practice tests

Preplogic - CEH v5 $99

+ the exam ($250) this comes out to a ridiculious $2584.

Psssssst. With a little effort and work you can pass this for under 300 bucks too. Not a huge secret.

But hey, i guess most people have their work pay for it, and mine is actually reimbursing me for the exam cost since i passed, so huzzah. $18 cert. w00.

I am not about learning how to pass a test. Don’t get me wrong. It took me a good 7-8 months to get all this done. I have seen people with mad certs get hired and fired within a week cause they don’t know shit. Don’t think that you can fool any employer into hiring you with a bunch of certs on your back. You can probably fool the test, but enjoy being a fucking hack. The rest of us that put the work in will continue to do just that.

It looks like my next test will be the SANS 503 Intrusion Detection in Depth. I’ll be doing a challange on this as well. Meaning that you just study and go take the test. It amazes me that SANS test weren’t proctored until this year, allowing for mega cheating. And you get to use the books???. Hello.. search pdf. I hope to get the 503 and the 560 (Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking) before the end of this year.

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