I passed eJPTv2 on the first try
Hello everyone, hello community!
I’m very happy because I passed the eJPTv2 certification a few weeks ago. The exam took me approximately 8–10 hours without really stopping (although during that time I had lunch, later dinner, and even took a one-hour break to watch YouTube).
I had already studied Computer Science for four years and graduated in 2023, so I wasn't a complete beginner. I had experience with Windows Server, Linux, and Networking (although I had to review networking concepts that tend to be forgotten over time, such as the OSI model, especially the Internet and Application layers, HTTP status codes, etc.).
I had also spent about six months practicing (from March 2025 to June 2025). Then I had some personal issues and stopped hacking until I seriously resumed in March 2026 and finished my preparation in June 2026 by taking the certification exam. In total, it was about six months of practice, although with some long breaks in between.
By the time I took the exam, I had completed around 30 CTF machines, most of them on TryHackMe, along with a few from Hack The Box, VulnHub, Vulnyx, HackMyVM, DockerLabs, and others.
I genuinely enjoyed the exam. At one point, I got stuck on a single machine, and the solution turned out to be as simple. (Correct enumeration).
I actually found the pivoting section easy. If you have well-organized notes and have practiced pivoting multiple times in a local lab environment (for example, VirtualBox machines connected through a custom network, with some machines having secondary network interfaces like Metasploitable 2, Basic Pentesting, etc.), you shouldn't have any major issues.
I would also recommend having some SQL knowledge for dumping databases and being comfortable with SSH, both for connecting to systems and performing attacks.
I also read some hacking books on Kindle (Spanish and English), but only the concepts of eJPTv2; that is, I skipped over the resources on Active Directory and advanced web hacking, for example.
Overall, it was a fun certification that provides a solid foundation for preparing for more advanced certifications in the future.
The only thing I would improve is allowing candidates to use their own Parrot OS or Kali Linux environment during the exam instead of the Guacamole environment. That would be my only criticism.
I'm sharing my CTF notes from Notion. They're written in Spanish (I haven't translated them into English yet, sorry about that), but you can use Google Translate and they should still be understandable, my Linux and VM's is in English 😅.
Greetings, and good luck to everyone!