Hi BillV,
Am considering purchasing the material atm for the rest my department. BillV have you found the material to be persistently sound? I am figuring out whether its worth buying or not. atm I'm getting my team members to work for their CISSP and the younger guys their ECSA.
I am curious to know if there are any practice tests included also.
Appreciate your reply.
Hi chgio58,
First, welcome to EH-Net and thanks for posting!

The new ECSA/LPT courseware is much better than the previous courseware. EC-Council went through a different publisher and such to create their more recent courseware. The differences from CEH v4 to v5 and from ECSA v2 to ECSA/LPT v3 are huge. The material is written much better and you can understand it. Have the ones that you're wanting to order ECSA for taken the CEH yet?
I would highly recommend doing the CEH prior to the ECSA. The reason being is that a lot of the material flows together really well, and the ECSA is more of an "extension" to the CEH than it is different topics/subjects. CEH and ECSA together will also qualify them for the LPT designation.
There are no practice tests included, but there are lab books that walk you through doing many different tasks. The new ECSA lab manual is almost as thick as one of the courseware books. There is a lot of information and a lot of projects to work through.
Hope that helps,
Bill