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 | | Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Prep (Exam Prep 2 (Que Publishing)) by Michael Gregg ISBN-10: 9780789735317 ISBN-10: 0-7897-3531-8 ISBN-13: 9780789735317 ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-3531-7 Paperback 2006-04-17 Que Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The CEH certification shows knowledge of network penetration testing skills. The CEH exam takes three hours and 125 questions, requiring a broad and deep knowledge of network security issues. The CEH Exam Prep is the perfect solution for this challenge, giving you the solid, in-depth coverage you'll need to score higher on the exam.
Along with the most current CEH content, the book also contains the elements that make Exam Preps such strong study aides: comprehensive coverage of exam topics, end-of-chapter review, practice questions, Exam Alerts, Fast Facts, plus an entire practice exam to test your understanding of the material. The book also features MeasureUp's innovative testing software, to help you drill and practice your way to higher scores. | ||
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Great book This book is a great. Not recommended to people with low expirience in Computers or Information Technology. You should have a strong foundation in systems and different Operating Systems. This book has tons of relevnat, strong, new age information on todays Systems and software. GREAT BUY! | ||
Excellent preparation book for the exam, makes you not a Ethical Hacker. This book I used for reference material to prepare for the CEH Exam. There is also a review guide for CEH, see Amazon for this book (CEH: Official Certified Ethical Hacker Review Guide: Exam 312-50 by Kimberly Graves). Beware: this is a REVIEW guide. Personally I think that this book (Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Prep, Que Publishing by Michael Gregg) is great for a start and you don't need the other review book. The exam consists of 150 questions with sometimes deep technical detailed questions. You'll need certainly a good knowledge about protocols and typical behaviour of it but nevertheless this will not make you an ethical hacker. This takes much much more experience, dedication and years of work in the field. Besides that; you will need lots and lots of other material to prepare yourself for the exam and to build up knowledge in general. For example; buy the guide of "professor Messer" to get additional knowledge on the Nmap tool. The book is however a great guide in the sometimes complex material. I think this book is easy to read, the author did a great job on this. Second there is a good roll up of all the issues that where discussed in every chapter. I think CEH is a typically focussed on the Windows Platform. This not a problem for me because this is my expertise area anyway but unix and linux is touched lightly. With that in mind, great guide for preparing, buy some other stuff or search the internet for additional material. Rob Faber [CISSP, CEH, MCSE] Security Consultant The Netherlands | ||
Some errors but hackers don't care about grammer. My teach kept saying how he threw the book at the wall when he saw the first error. So don't believe everything word for word in this book. Try some of the stuff out it tells you about to help ya learn about it. The book has a lot of good information. It'd be nice though if they could get a new edition out with the errors fixed. | ||
Exam Prep is definitely a help I purchased this book after taking the 5 day CEH course so I could focus on practicing questions. The book compliments the course, but please do not think that studying this book alone prepares you for the exam or qualifies you to be a Certified Ethical Hacker. The writing style makes it easy to read, and I appreciate the few jokes inserted here and there. The book covers most of the topics for the exam, but I feel you need to go to the ec-council site to understand what will be convered on the exam. I did some of the exercises in this book, and they were helpful and interesting. However they are nothing compared to the exercises you do in the actual CEH class. In conclusion, I suggest using this book as an aid in preparing for the exam, but it doesn't replace the depth of knowledge and experience you get in the class. I would buy other books from the author. | ||
Very effective book The previous poster did bring up a good point: this book will not teach you how to hack. It WILL help you pass the CEH exam. It lays a very good foundation, and the only reason I give it 4 stars was because it was lacking the detail and depth to be fully comprehensive. Keep in mind, that this book is meant for people who do have an administration background and who happen to be pretty familiar with Linux and Windows. The book is written for that group of people because without that experience, you probably won't have the experience necessary to be a CEH. I happen to read all 3 books for the CEH that are listed on Amazon. The Sybex book, the EC-council book, and this book. By far, this book was the best out of the 3. The Sybex book was a waste of money as it wasn't as good as this book and it had even less depth. The EC-council book had a bit more detail in some topics, although it lacked cohesion and was poor at presenting the thought behind it. I think this book and the EC-council book compliment each other, and give you a pretty good idea of what you actually need to know. I would start with this book and finish up with the EC-council book and/or courseware. My reasoning is that you should set the foundation first and this book does that. Also, as with hacking, google is an excellent resource. These two books won't be enough to fill all the holes, but the internet is a damned good filler. In conclusion this book provides for pretty good preparation for the actual test, and is a comfortable read. ABOUT THE TEST: 150 questions, you have 4 hours. I took only 2 and scored an 86%. 70% is passing. I studied for only two weeks, but have extensive background in the subject area. The test is very specific, and you are expected to know the material in detail - NOT just concepts. The test is geared towards people with security experience, and the test questions are true to that purpose. It will be very difficult to pass if you: 1) Don't know linux 2) Don't understand Microsoft's OS and operations 3) never actually used any of the hacking tools Linux is not a MAJOR part of the test, but there are enough questions on linux command line operations to make a difference. Keep in mind, just reading alone will not let you pass this test. It is very important that you try out the most popular and important tools (firsthand!). You will be asked about specific commands, and be expected to know them. Know nmap, snort, hping2, tracert and tcpdump down cold. Know the ICMP codes and types. The only way you learn this stuff is to actually practice it. This really isn't an entry level test at all. Even if you know all your stuff, the test isn't easy to pass. I'd strongly encourage that people take some practice with actual pen testing before they try this test (use vmware to simulate a target if you cant throw a home made lab together). If you don't actually try this stuff out, your odds of passing will plummet. About 10% of the questions are what I'd consider bad questions - either they are unclear, or ambiguous or poorly word... Without violating the NDA - one of the questions parallel the following examples: Can you establish tcp sessions while spoofing your ip address? The answer is: it depends - are you sniffing the outgoing traffic? If so, then it is certainly possible.. otherwise there is no way you'll establish a tcp connection. What if the question doesn't specify, and the answer hinges on this? This type of ambiguous situation happened on at least 10 questions. This will lose you points right off the bat, because to no fault of your own you won't be able to determine the valid answers. Good luck! | ||