Hey MadCoder,

Welcome to the forums.


The whole training process entails the course being presented in interactive slide form. Additionally there are exercises you can replicate based off the slides and the resources are given in slide attachments. eLearnSecurity even has video tutorials throughout the course that explains tool demonstrations and usages. Student forums are provided where other students and instructors interact and help you when you have questions.

There are a couple course reviews in this section on the Forum:
http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,54/board,96.0/

My Review here talks about my experience through the course and I try to compare/contrast the course with Offensive-Security's Penetration Testing with BackTrack v3 course.

You should be able to retain the information in the course by going through the exercises. I would suggest going through the slides and replicating the exercises for it to stick a lot better. I'm personally the kind of person where the more I do something, the more it sinks in - even if I have to do it 200 times before it actually sticks. You have way more experience than I do, I think your experience will only benefit you more walking in.

Can't exactly answer this question, I know a lot of certifications and courses are over-priced, eLearnSecurity comes to the scene relatively affordable courses geared toward the novice in pen-testing. The course is aimed at people with 0-3 years in the field (Read Jason Haddix's Review) - and is still very new to 'the scene'.

I think the course would benefit you if your very new to pentesting. If you plan on going with the PRO course and get a chance to take on the certification challenge, I think you'll have tons of fun and it is very do-able in the amount of time they give you. The required report you would write would make you feel like you have gotten your feet in the door even more.

There's a couple of us on this board that have been through the course, don't hesitate to ask for help!

-Kris

Glad I could help in a timely manner. I'm browsing the forums all day trying to find where I could throw my 2 cents in. Good to see the community grow 1 more active member stronger.

Cheers,

-Kris

I can't speak for them but there are likely several reasons. One being that if you want to have students worldwide, 10k is insane money for some countries. (I also think it's insane here as well.) My ex-wife's salary in Costa Rica was $250 for 2 weeks full time work. A reasonably nice house (for C.R.) - 30k.

2, if they were to price themselves too high there might not be many takers. There's lots of certs out there to choose from. I took the OSCP not just because it was the first real-world-hacking course but also because the price was right.

3, they don't call it Micro$oft for nothing. 

1) Thanks for buying my books! Hopefully they will be very helpful in propelling you down your new path.
2) I'm sure you'll enjoy the eLearnSecurity course - from what I know of it, at the end you should have a solid understanding of our industry.
3) Man, I really need to improve my advertising skills... or maybe just expand my advertising budget. 

He didn't buy your training....but he bought two of your books.....you seem to be doing okay on marketing the books at least 

I've looked at HackingDojo and the thing that turned me away was a complete lack of information of the homepage. Basically, there's one page with a couple paragraphs describing the course.  For that reason alone... I couldn't even consider it.