Necessary? Yes at the very least do the free version. You could probably easily gather the Skillset ones with some Google hacking techniques you'll learn during your studies. Pro tip: there are a lot of questions on Skillset, and elsewhere for that matter, that allege to be CEH exam questions that may or may not appear on your own test. The crowd-sourced nature of this site means you'll get a lot of diverse information to fill in the gaps left by study guides, etc., and the new labs are great tools to learn with too. Final readiness score of 104, with exactly 4000 questions answered.

: I did about 1.5 months of free, and 1 month of the Pro subscription. Necessary? Yes I'd say a study guide of some sort should be at the core of your studies. However, a lot of the info matches up with EC-Council's modules, so it's still useful for new and refresher knowledge. I found it very helpful, but a lot of the information is stuff you'll already know if you have a good foundation (e.g., Sec+). Below I'm listing and rating my sources of information based on how they translated to my exam performance:ĬEH v9 Study Guide (Oriyano): I chose this book because it was basically the only explicit v9 study guide. I spent about 3 months preparing at a slower pace - you could easily do it quicker than that. I went the self-study path, with no bootcamps or anything.

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