Sounds like you'll do alright.  It's not terribly hard, so long as you commit to learning it, and it sounds like you have a solid enough base of the fundamentals.  You 'should' do fine.

Remember, too...  The exam isn't a practical, hands-on exam.  So if you're a good study, you should do well, both in class / study, and on the exam.

Good luck and enjoy, yatz!

I believe they will be providing official coursework.  The training is through Global Knowledge, 5-day class.  I'll ask about getting the books early.

Thanks guys!

Yes, and know that the official stuff is mostly slides / screenshots, so you'll want to do some additional review / study before class, so as not to waste too much time in slide review...

In case you come from a technical background, such as Ethical Hacking.
Recently I saw a "training video" (from a recognized provider), which prepares the viewer for the CEH examination, and suddenly the presenter said: "If you're expecting more advanced stuff, such as writing perl scripts, or doing c++ programming for developing buffer overflows, or expecting some kind of programming to come up with an 0day.."

Basically, CEH does not dive into that as far as I know, so you should be good as those topics are pretty much the hardest, well, it depends on your area of knowledge, but generally they are considering the hardest imho. 

Good luck!

I asked my contact at Global Knowledge about the instructor/materials.  It looks like yes they will be using the official coursework.  However, he could not provide me with the instructor info.  I was told the instructor can change up to the day before class starts so the course is essentially listed as instructor TBA until the day of.

Also I asked about getting the books early and he just said no (in a nice way).  I do have v6 coursework that I looked through about half, so maybe that's enough.

I recommend that you push them for the instructor information, after all its the instructor that has to present the material in a way that students grasp both the theory and practical aspects of the CEH. If they hire an instructor that has never done any Real Pen Testing then you are going to get a theory delivered CEH 

Just my 2 cents to help you get the most for your bucks

Regards,

Wayne

yatz, is there any chance you can go above that individual with regards the courseware? I'm not recommending being disrespectful or anything but most of the training organizations I've dealt with will provide the courseware in advance as long as the course has been paid for (and generally with the understanding that if you cancel the class, you'll be charged for the courseware). I really think you'll benefit from accessing it in advance.

Also, Wayne and Bill are correct as far as instructor information. I've worked for multiple training organizations and although instructors do change from time to time, they a) don't change so frequently as to really make this an issue and b) generally have a limited number of instructors who teach the course so it can't really be that difficult. One thing you could always do is see if there's any chance you could get the instructor's contact information in advance of the class so you could ask some preliminary questions. We constantly had students coming to us prior to attending class asking for some extra preparatory information and it was really no problem. You could ask them a little about their background and experience.

Ultimately, if they won't give you any of that, you can wait until the day of class and pose that information yourself to the instructor if that's your only means of getting the information.

Regardless, I hope you enjoy the course

-N33