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About CEH EXAM

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What is CEH ?

CEH stands for Certified Ethical Hacker. Ethical Hacking is basically a nice profession. In order to make it more respectful, hacker needs to have certification for the same. Thus, professional certification called Certified Ethical Hacker which is offered by a standardized council called International Council of E- Commerce which is popularly known as EC-Council. CEH is one of the demandable and full of scope course in this competitive world. So, a person must show some curiosity towards this side if he/she wants to lead the door open for many new opportunities of

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CEH Exam Details:

The main criteria of setting the exam to obtain certification constitutes of following basic aspects:

  • Test Conduction Center Types:
  1. Authorized Prometric Testing Centers
  2. Vue Testing Center
  3. Web based via Prometric Prime
  4. Accredited Training Center

There will be different exam code for different conducting centers. Example: Exam 312-50 for ATC and EC0-350 proctored test at APTC

  • Total no. of Questions with Duration of Exam:

125 multiple choice question type with duration of 4 hours.

  • Passing Criteria:

70% minimum marks required

Working Domain:

The  main domain of working as well as the skills measured in the test constitutes of following topics and section of interest. So the interested candidates must have a knowledge for the following domain of interest:

  • Trojans and Backdoors
  • Viruses and Worms
  • Sniffers
  • Social Engineering
  • Denial of Service
  • Session Hijacking
  • Hacking Web Applications
  • SQL Injection
  • Hacking Wireless Networks
  • Footprinting and Reconnaissance
  • Scanning Networks
  • Enumeration

Beside this , there are various other topics that an individual must posses the knowledge of.
Chapters / Sections of CEH Exam Syllabus:

The exam constitutes of 6 main sections in which the knowledge of different aspects are obtained which is to be utilized in exam. The main sections involve:

1.     Analysis/Assessment: The main knowledge gained involves communication protocols, malware operations, mobile technologies, backups , telecomm., data and system analysis etc.

2.Security: It constitutes of the introduction of systems security controls, cryptography ,network security, physical security, threat modeling, biometrics, vulnerability scanners, wireless access technology etc.

3.Tools/system/programs: access control mechanisms (e.g., smart cards), cryptography techniques, programming languages (e.g. C++, Java, C#, C), scripting languages (e.g., PHP, Java script), network topologies, subnetting, database structures etc.

4.     Procedures/Methodology: SA, SOA, TCP/IP networking etc.

5.     Regulation/Policy: Security policies, compliance regulations etc.

6.     Ethics: Professional code of conduct, hacking activities etc.

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4 Responses to About CEH EXAM

  1. Siddhartha bhattacherjee says:

    Right now i am doing a ethical hacking course but it is online course and they will provide certificate but is there any global certification if yes how can i will get that

  2. Rajat Chhajer says:

    But this CEH certification exam requires an experience of 2 years.
    I’m a fresher suggest how can i get this certification now?
    I have all the pre-requisite knowledge.

  3. Abhilash Bhattacharya says:

    The above article is an informative and beautifully explained article about the different courses of ethical hacking.It describes the exam required to be taken for the certification.

  4. princy gupta says:

    This article is very helpful. It tells about ehtical hacking and CEH exam details are given in this post.

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