I want to back track a little on my previous reply.  I don't want to say the CEH is worthless, there ARE some underlying topics that would be good for the absolute BEGINNER.  I just don't think the name and cert jive with what the material has to offer.  I think I'd call the course "Foundations of Ethical Hacking" or something like that.  You're not going to come away with a CEH cert and get right in to a pro pen test job, the course just doesn't give you those skills.