My final question is, what do I get?  Is EC-Council going to send me an e-mail with a bunch of info stating I can now use the CEH as part of my title and that they will be sending me a more formal certificate of completion?  I know what Cisco and the ISC provide, but not sure about EC-Council.

AJ

I took the exam today and wow.....was I expecting something different.  I could not believe how long the questions were.  Most were multiple paragraphs in length because they were describing the situations setting you up for the actual question.  The practice exams on the CD from the Official Review Guide didn't closely mirror the actual exam, but some of the questions from the CD were helpful. 

My advice to anyone that is going to take this exam is to get hands on with all the tools the Official Review guide says you will need to have knowledge of for the exam.  Being familiar with tools switches and the resulting output would have been a huge help.  I went into it just wanting to gain the information about what's out there with regards to hacking tools and how the tools are being used in real world hacks.  I should have gotten more hands on knowledge and I realize that now. 

The test took me 2.5 hours.  There were about 10 that I had to go back and review and a few others that I changed from my original decision.  I submitted the exam and waited to see a disappointing score only to find that I passed!  I was shocked and more than that.....relieved.  For me, the CEH exam was just under the CISSP in difficulty because of all of the tools and technical information thrown at you.  Maybe if you go to the official CEH class the instructors tell you what to key on and when they go through the material they may give you the "wink wink...you may want to pay attention to this", but the self study route without the tools or practical exercises was probably not the right route to take in my opinion.  If your a security admin dealing with IDS rule files and router ACLs regularly, the test should be much easier.  They say the CISSP is "an inch deep and a mile wide" across all of IT security, while the CEH has a little more focus on the network and OS sides, but for me, there wasn't much seperation between the difficulty of the 2 exams.

Thank you for all of the feedback.  I took a few weeks off so I am back to studying this week and plan to sit for the exam Friday morning.  I'm pretty good at learning book material, but agian, I wish I had the time to tinker with the the tools more.

The CISSP was a beast.  I studied on and off for a year for it.  Read the Shon Harris guide cover to cover and then watched the Shon Harris DVD set.  Then I actually went to a 6 day long bootcamp review, stayed up all night the night of the exam and then took the exam on no sleep.  This is how I take every exam and how I took exams in college as well.  I'm used to it and it makes me feel more prepared.  You don't know how long that exam is until it's over.  I finished it in 2.5 hours.  My entire bootcamp class had the attitude of we could have passed it or failed it.  I only know of 1 guy that didn't pass from my class and he was the only one that said he thought it was easy.   It's good to have that one behind me.

I'll post after the exam on Friday.....

OK, well I think I will postpone a few more weeks.  Let me know what you think of the Wiley book.  My decision to postpone is so I can spend some more time getting to know some of the more important tools and commands.  The official study guides lists those for some of the more important tools and in reviewing them the switch was fairly intuitive.  With the way I study, to feel really ready I think I need a full evening and morning of committing info to memory.  I just have to find a day that I can allocate this concentrated study time to and then just sit down and do it.  Maybe in a few weeks.  I hate making excuses, but I just want to make sure I pass the first time.  It does sound like I am prepared, but feeling that way is another story.

I've been studying for the CEH on and off since Dec of 2007.  I have a busy schedule and busy home life so I have to study when I have time.  I've scheduled the exam about 5 times in the last 2 months and I just keep pushing it back.  I'm supposed to take it Thursday morning, but I'm leaning towards pushing it back again.  I've read the Wiley Prep book cover to cover and I'm skimming it.  I also created a 22 page study guide of all the tools in it that I have yet to review.  I read the Official CEH study guide cover to cover twice.  I took the exams that came with both CDs and did OK on them.  I have the experience/self-study voucher, I've got my CISSP certififcation and an expired CCNA.  I'm really struggling with being ready though.  I don't really have time to play with all of the tools listed in the book.  My take is that I can learn them when/if I need to use them, but for my job it's just best that I know that they tools exist and so I can protect against them being used maliciously.  Any suggestions?