If you see you are becoming a serius pentester, you keep rooting those boxes in the lab, you attempt to hack 5 servers in 24 hours, with a lot of pressure specially coming from the time frame of the exam and from yourself, normally in a pentest you do not have those shorts time (5 servers in 24 hours, LOL).

So if you can hack in those circumstances in the exam how is the real pentest?, sure you will be able to hack them and outside the box, without automatic expensive tools (I am not saying you will not use them).

At the end you are wining and wining every time to attempt the exam, it is not lost, it will pay off.

Every book about hacking I read always tell you patience will always pay off, you try hard and harder, you will get it and it will pay off, why because you really are learning the stuff, keep drilling, you will get it.

Also you inspire us, good.

takes time to learn Linux, keep going, eventually you will see some applications in Linux and all your knowledge will show up in your mind, you will feel you are flying....

it takes sometime to learn pentest, it is constant process until became familiar.

Use tools, build your own lab, practice attacking a server in your lab/or other lab, etc, etc.

Remember learn to walk before running, so keep learning the base, CEH is a good knowledge, but the other training mention here are good to really acquire skills.

Welcome to the club, this is a good place where you can get a lot of directions and ideas, sometimes I d not post anything for weeks but I read it daily.

What about www.ucertify.com , did any body used it?

It is a god review, thanks for sharing with us your experience

Let me tell you Armando, I took the first version and always got the feeling for more labs and a little deep inline with the lecture, now you guys got that.

I like the lab by hours, no expiration. That's good, you concentrate to master some knowledge and confirm it with LAB, good.

Good, the change is good. It means progress.

Guys

 What exam simulation is better the Ucertify.com or Boson.com?

 I've been studying on and off including the OSCP (I did not attempt the exam yet), so material is not the issue. 

I got the first version of the training in your site, is it going to be a price for upgrading?

Yep, it is very interesting, I took the first version. I think this looks better.

I tested the training area only, there a lot of virtual machines that the users created and leave it without any configuration, only ssh.

I never attempt the certification to begin to get paid for the attacks.

Congrats

You can go in any direction, it is depend of your knowledge. Just begin with a couple of tools.

I like to begin with dictionary attack again a machine, later you can use metasploit, with that you have a lot of fun and time consuming.

Later you will begin to learn about methodologies (those are good), more tools, attacking vector, other exploits, etc, etc.

In the beginning everybody is a script kiddy, lol