r/CEH

If anybody needs help , feel free to ask for help

I was looking for study material so that i don't have to study 3700 pages from official material, and i found out that no one wants to share theirs and people even wants to sell that so i created my own, here you go for free all of the chapters.
This was done using official material and CEH study guide and CEH v13 study guide with usage of Chat GPT i think is is complete if not feel free to edit and share with community later.
Good Luck!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AkGX4gqfHBigPXB9I6N3oRJPaucwZaBF?usp=drive_link

Hi, I failed, scored 87 of 125. 4-5 questions was covered in CEH guide book and where with very fine details. For example choose from 4 exact named devices which one matches described technical parameters(guessed deductive wrong, but had two options, second was wright). About 5-6 questions was with unusual/untypical wording, I am not native english speaker. Failed 1 domain very hard web application hacking. Heavily scenarios based, like AI generated. Have several named vulnerabilities. Seems that need to memo some wastebin info 😄. Cloud and AI I got only a few questions but it is very close to blueprints numbers. I have attended course, did all labs, had previous experience and not nailed it 👀 And also got official answer about scoring percentage "“EC-Council uses item-response-theory calibration: every exam form (questions set) is statistically calibrated so a "competent" candidate has roughly the same probability of passing regardless of which form they get. Forms with easier questions need a higher percentage to pass (up to 85%); forms with harder questions need a lower percentage (as low as 60%). This means the candidate can't game it by aiming for a specific number.”" So it means my exam was with higher unknown passing percentage >70%-85%. So the passing range with correct answers is somewhere 75-107. In my exact case >87-107.

CEH was the first certification I ever earned. No prior certs, no fancy background, just CEH as my starting point.

From there I went straight into CPENT and earned LPT Master, EC-Council's highest penetration testing credential. After that I picked up eJPT and eventually OSCP+.

When I was preparing for CPENT I could barely find a quality write-up about it. So I wrote one.

Covering everything: exam structure, the 5 domains I worked through, what prep actually works, report writing, and why the 2x12 split was the right call for me.

Don't skip the golden tips in the article. They are the exact formula I used to hit LPT Master.

Full article here: https://medium.com/@OmarTamer0/cpent-and-lpt-master-my-full-experience-prep-strategy-and-everything-you-need-to-know-387be9fefad0

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So I use Skillsoft/CodeAcademy CEHv13 to learn, and I have like three more modules left before I complete and I’m gonna start doing assessment tests and practice exams.
I also have a CEH v12 Wiley book, but I’m very concerned because the questions are too easy and I’m reading the post here at everyone’s like it’s hard and then I showed someone a question that I have on my practice exams and they’re just like those are it’s nothing like those so I need some advice.

Is the question below similar to how CEH is set up or is it nothing like that and they’re just giving me false security? What’s the best study guide because using skillsoft it’s doing like individual testing for each module, which is all well and good but they’re so easy. I’m concerned that they aren’t accurate reflectors it’s gonna be on there and I’m gonna walk in there thinking all this test is so easy you know I know what’s gonna happen and then I just get kind of smacked in the face.

Example practice question from Skillsoft:
“Emma, a junior senior analysis at a midsize security firm, is reviewing logs from recent breach. She noticed that a small, seemingly harmless program was implemented during the initial phase. Soon after, the system connected to an external server and pulled in more malicious files. Eventually, the system activated a file-encrypting program, locking critical documents and demanding you were handsome based on this behavior which malware component was most likely responsible for getting additional threats after the initial infection?
Dropper
Intruder
Payload
Downloader”
Or worse of all
“At a healthcare company, Marcus to text as usual now activity. The most program entered quietly through a fishing email, observed user behavior, adjusted his actions based on the system defenses, and later source sensitive login data.
Which type of best describes this case
Root kit using privilege escalation
Traditional viruses with polymorphic features
Fileless worm using memory injection
AI powered malware with adaptive feature”

And there’s a lot of questions like this and I’m getting really confident because I’m scoring well and they are very common sense, but it seems like these are too easy and I don’t wanna go in there thinking it’s gonna be just like this and then I’m smacked in the face by oh no it was nothing like that and now I just failed and I have to pay again.

Hello, I will be attempting the CEH practical exams.

I know it's an open book test but I wanted to ask the difficulty level of the questions.

Is it the same level as the practice labs/ CEH engage labs?

Or more in depth questions?

Also regarding the answers... I can submit them multiple times till I get the correct one?