I also took the inaugural CEH v7 course and would agree with Hayabusa. As per our instructor (from EC Council also) the only real additions to the v7 test were omissions of older OS's such as 2000, NT etc and the addition of a bit of Bluetooth and cellphone stuff.

I just passed and used quite a bit of v6 study materials to assist me. From my understanding not that much has changed from the v6 testing to CEH v7. The main changes (according to our ECC Instructor) were removing old OS's such as 2000 and NT and adding Bluetooth and cellphones.

Hope this info helps!

WooHoo! I passed so I put the courseware up on eBay.

CEHv7 courseware on eBay with no reserve and free shipping to anyone interested. Auction ends 05/16/11 around 11am PST. http://tinyurl.com/3vmbz5x

I may be posting my CEH v7 courseware on ebay in the next 2-3 weeks, just waiting to pass the v7 test first. I'll keep everyone updated.

BillV - yes Titu's Company, just spoke with him on the phone briefly but was assisted greatly by his team in Vegas, all good guys.

ba22er - I can't comment on the test as it relates to the courseware as I have not taken the test yet, planning on it in the next few weeks. And yes I agree that the labs should have been vetted by a few folks as there were some obvious inaccuracies.

My training was at NetCom Learning based in New York and the class I took was in Las Vegas where they also run a small 5 classroom facility.

I have been in Vegas going on about 8 years and actually had never heard of them, but their operation is very impressive. Not so much the classroom facilities but their attention to details and customer service. Way beyond anything I have aver experienced.

I also attended the inaugural CEH v7 class and would like to give my opinion/perspective of the class. But first a little background on me so that my views may be better understood.

I have been doing forensics for around 10 years, mostly on standalone desktops and laptops. Very minimal interaction with servers and none with Linux based systems. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being an expert I would say my experience with servers is at a 2, Linux about a 2 and any sort of coding about a 1. I have my Security+ and I have the v6 video tutorials and prior to the class made it through about the first third of the videos. With that said here is my take on the class;

Going in my understanding was that this would be what I call a 30,000 foot view (basically a broad overview) of hacking and it's methodologies. On the first day of class the instructor told us that one of the main differences from v6 was that v7 would focus more on the methodologies of pen testing or hacking and a very quick "exposure" to some of the tools.

The material (slides, CDs etc) was first rate, very nicely put together and very good quality. The school where I attended my class was "first class" in all aspects. There were definitely some bugs and issues with labs, we actually had XP, 2003, 2008, Win7, a special CEH Linux distro and BT4 setup as Virtual Machines.

This class was held 9am to 5pm, and the labs were available for us from 7am until around 7 or 8 pm and it was said numerous times that whatever time we wanted to utilize the labs they would be made available to us. There were 6 onsite students and about 8 "virtual" students taking the class.

There is a LOT of information to digest in a week's time. And for me being a full on newbie it was like drinking from a fire hose, however that is exactly what I expected it to be. I had no illusion that I would be walking out on Friday being able to hack anything. The course gave me exactly what I expected it would. A well rounded base from which I could build upon.

An instructor teaching this course must have very good time management skills as there is so much material if it is not presented well it is very easy to let time get away from you. An instructor would then need to quickly cover relevant material or skip large sections altogether.

I think the only complaint I have about the course is that many of the labs could not be completed do either to the configuration of the VMs or the labs were poorly laid out in the manual (some were just plain wrong). Now to be fair this was the first class held for v7 and those labs can be fixed or updated fairly easily and in fact the instructor and school were extremely diligent in documenting ANY issues so that they could be corrected.

All in all I think it is a fantastic program and one that when the bugs are worked out (very minor) it will all run smoothly. As was said earlier in this thread, this is a course for people just starting out and it met my needs for a boot camp completely. I am already looking for an online course where I can build upon the information I received in CEH v7.

Just found out yesterday that I was awarded one of the spots for Las Vegas! Class begins Monday March 14th, 2011. I'll post how the course goes, the new curriculum seems exciting!