I thought this was a very well done book. So much better than any of the course material and books from the EC-Council. I would put it as a must have for a CEH canidate.

I purchased this book a few weeks ago and have read it once and will read it again before taking the CEH exam.  If you compare the objectives to the EC Council course outline then it looks like this book does not cover evverything yet it covers stuff that may not be in the exam but relevant to Ethical Hacking nonetheless. 

As an exam prep I would have preferred the book to mirror the EC Council objectives a little closer.  I think this book is trying to cover ethical hacking in a logical manner as well as being a guide for the exam and that never really works for me.  If it says exam prep then that's what I want it to be.

I do not have the EC Council literature but I do have the course slides so I cannot really comment on how well this prepares you for the exam.  It is a well written book, with some grammatical errors but nothing major.  Until I take the exam I will not know how well this book prepares you for the test so I will hold judgement on that.

It is worth getting in my opinion.

Hi venom77. After reading your post I went to check my copy of this book. I still have my answers marked in pencil at the back of the book and my answers all correspond with yours. I also noticed these mistakes while studying for the exam but never got round to posting anything about them.

Another thing that really irritated me about this book was the ExamGear test engine included on the CD which accompanies the book. The exam asks no questions at all about chapter 11 (Buffer Overflows, Viruses and Worms). I compensated for this by re-reading that particular chapter many times and re-doing the printed questions at the end of the chapter. The exam also seemed to have only one pool of 125 questions, so after you've done it once, the questions repeat themselves. I even tried to log on to the exam prep web site to download updates for the exam (as the book itself reccomends) but none were available.