Congratulations on achieving your CEH! And welcome to EH-Net

Well done and welcome to EH-Net.

Since you passed the CEH v5 exam with only v4 study materials, can you share with us the topics (not the exact questions) that were covered that you were not totally prepared to see? What pracical experience do you have in IT and/or security? You must have some if you were able to pass without preparation?

Thanks and we look forward to your continued participation,
Don

first of all, i'm glad that i can contribute in here.
i'm just employe who work not in IT company.
but i'm work in IT dept, as infrastructure & tech support engineer (since 2005 - now).
 i'm not expert and i'm still in studying and observing of IT security.
i've learnt linux more than 5 years (but still not expert) since i was in college(computer science major).
some of my knowledge learnt by my self, but my basic network experience is Networking Essential & TCP/IP training.


my first hacking activity begin on 2002, when many vulnerabilities buffer overflow found on most of linux OS, i've leartn hacking buffer overflow in 3 months. (but actually i never know that through my all hacking activity, i've passed step by step the Hacking method)

for preparation, i've got the training CEHv4, 5 days before the EXAM. coz on the day sixth i took the exam (yesterday).
i also have the virtual exam of CEH v4, every days during the 5 days.

basicly the CEHv5 exam doesn't have much differences.
the methodology hacking, security and all of IT security (all modules CEHv4) were still issued in CEHv5 exam.
some of the questions were still taken from CEHv4 or modified more details, but i've got some new questions maybe 3 or 5 questions were not from CEHv4 modules.
may be those questions taken from new additional modules in CEHv5.

but anyway, my suggestion, in preparing CEHv5 exam, still learning the basic of hacking, methodology, network essential, and many things in CEHv4 modules if the CEHv5 modules not issued yet in your country(like me in indonesia).

thank you......Don and Boney.

good luck for any person who wanna take the exam...

regards,
"may the source be with you".....

thank you jim, well for information the trainer and the exam centre didn't know that the CEDH exam version already update.

i already told them about this matter, and they really pay attention for this...

regards,