CEH Practical Review/Guide — How to prepare and ace your exam in the first attempt
My journey for CEH practical exam started when I applied for the scholarship sponsored by the EC-Council. The actual exam cost was 550$ but the scholarship awarded me a discount and the exam cost was reduced to 99$.
What is CEH Practical?
CEH Practical is a 6 hrs practical exam based on the knowledge you gained from the CEH ansi exam. The exam is an open book exam but fully proctored based and comprises 20 questions related to real-life synopsis. You will be given two machines (windows and a parrot machine) and a range of IPs to attack. The type of questions are related to both red-teaming and blue-teaming.
How to prepare for CEH practical?
Before applying for CEH practical, I solved a lot of CTFs and walkthroughs on Tryhackme(THM) platform which helped me get a good hand on major tools used in the exam. So I would recommend my readers to solve labs on Tryhackme. If you could afford the iLabs provided by EC-council that’s more than enough for this exam. Else you can find notes or other free stuff online similar to iLabs that will help you get familiar with the exam.
Some resources that I used for preparation:-
The most useful tools that I used in the exam:-
- Nmap (important)
- Wireshark (important)
- Snow
- Metasploit (important)
- Wpscan (important)
- Sqlmap (important)
- Hydra (important)
- Veracrypt
- Rdp-client
- Hashcalc
- Openstego
Sample Questions:-
- What is the version of the Operating system running?
- Find the IPs that are responsible for the DDoS attack.
- Find the password of the XYZ user. (brute-forcing)
- Find the phone number of the XYZ user.
- Extract hidden data from images, text files.
- Decrypt the encrypted text.
For referring notes at the time of exam, you can use these notes:-
Tips for the exam
- Have a good hand on the tools used in windows.
- Try to solve maximum questions in windows machine, as linux machine is a little laggy.
- Be specific in solving the question, bcz sometimes the question may ask you to perform a specific task before answering the question.
- If you are stuck on a question skip it and solve it later, this will save you a lot of time.
- And always ask the proctor whether if you can use your notes or use your own tool to solve a task.
- Don’t panic and patiently solve the questions.
If you have reached till here, thank you for reading my blog. I wish a good luck with your exam, and you will definitely ace your exam with flying colors.
Thank You.