Hello forum members.

As promised earlier this month I inform you about the ECSA/LPT course I just finished today.

Today was the day, I and 3 other students completed the 5 day classroom training of the new ECSA/LPT course. We finished with the ECCOUNCIL exam for 412-79 right after the last lesson. I have enjoyed this course as i we went deeper into techniques of hacking and intrusion detection. Our teacher was, as usual, passionate and inspiring, he really is a professional and possesses that unique ability to pass on knowledge to other people and mix it with a good portion of common sense and humour.

Then came the exam, boy was I nervous about that one. With no practice exam (I did not find any) I went over the material with the other students in the evening at our hotel trying to grasp the essence of it all. Learning the paramaters of the known tools like "Wireshark, Metasploid, Nmap, Snort and some other tools, focussing on whitepapers, studycases and instructional short movies.
The questions (50 in total) were pretty much in line with what we learned and should be read carefully. With about 30 minutes to spare I hit the "end exam" button feeling very confident about the result. On my E/CEH I scored 83%. Today I passed ECSA/LPT with a score of 100 percent, now that I did not expect as I had still some doubt about three questions of which I was not totally sure I had answered correctly.
100 percent, WOW! My efforts this week really paid off.
I have decided to register myself now as a "Licensed Penetration Tester", I will pay the $ 500 dollar subscription fee and apply for the so called "ECCOUNCIL Tiger Team". At my work here in the Netherlands (I work for the government) I am responsible for Internet and Email security and I find ECCOUNCIL's courses a very usefull addition to the other security trainings I have received over the last few years. Coming July I will do ECFI, again at the same place and with the same teacher.

Okay! the exam focusses mainly on exploits and how to use the existing tools and also on "rules of engagement" and social engineering. There are a number of questions about CSS, Buffer overflows and password cracking and of course, the LPT method of going about penetration tests. Also focus on social engineering and ISO standards and make sure you learn those filters and paramaters of the tools I mentioned earlier. It pretty much follows the ECEH course and it is helpfull to freshen up on your CEH material as well.

Now I'm going to enjoy my weekend, see a movie, visit a friend and read a good book.

All the best and keep in touch.

Best regards,

Ton van Waard
The Netherlands

Hello everyone!

On the 31st om March I start my 5 day course on ECSA/LPT here in the Netherlands. I received my EC-Counsil Official Curriculum courseware (v3.05) and going through the 4 books I can see it is very comprehensive and detailed. Somebody here at the forum called it a "spicy meatball" and I think he is correct.
The first thing I noticed that there is no index at the end of all 4 books and I find that unfortunate, also some of the illistrations are unreadable and/or others can only be seen through a magnifying glass. The Courseware CD's are full of material that will be very helpfull with this course and of course need to be examined and studied intensively.
Only Volume 3 conatains practise questions at the end and I wonder why the other 3 books don't have questions. Good practise questions are seriously lacking for this exam and I wonder why. However, the new course material is very, very comprehensive and I know that my class coming 31st will have a good teacher (we had the same teacher for our CEH training last year August).

I will keep you informed after my course (followed with 412-79 exam).

To you all, a good day and keep all of us informed if you have anything new about 412-79 (practise questions would be great).

Regards,

Avwaard

jimbob,

Thanks for your reply. I had to sweat a lot for this one but I learned a lot and we take hacking very seriously overhere. We have 2 ethical hackers now in our sysadmin group and regularly there are audits by professional white hat hackers.

I'll stick around this forum and welcome any advise all of you may have.

BillV,

Thank you too for your response, the courseware it will be then. I have no objections to the courseware other then that is is kind of a hassle to find what you are looking for as a proper index is not in there. The Sybex book I got from my teacher is a lot more easier to browse. The courseware for ECSA will come any day now so I can study in advance. We had a good teacher for the CEH training and we will have the same one for our ECSA so my expectations are high. My ECSA course will be a bootcamp like the CEH was last week, including hotel and all that. The teacher then gave us homework to do in the evening and our group of 5 benefited from that greatly, we all passed. Now I hope the other 4 guys also come for the follow-up training.

OK, have a nice weekend, talk to you again later.

Regards,

avwaard

Hello forum memers / visitors.

I passed my CEH exam on the 11th of august immediately after a full week of training by a certified learning center here in the Netherlands. The exam gave me 4 hours and I had about 10 minutes left when I hit the "end exam" button.
My passing score was 78.3% and this was a very difficult exam. I am now going for another training in October for ECSA followed by an exam afterwards.

Where can I find some examprep material? I'd like to have some idea of what sort of questions to expect. B.t.w. I am working as a system/network administrator for the Dutch government and I like my job a lot. We are dealing with network security and I find the CEH track very usefull.

Regards,

Ton van Waard