Certified Ethical Hacker v9

As someone on the blue team side, studying for CEH flipped my perspective entirely - suddenly I was thinking like an attacker. The DoS and session hijacking domains were eye-opening for my incident response work. I appreciated that the practice questions covered cloud and mobile threats, since that is where we are seeing real incidents now.

CEH footprinting questions finally clicked. Passed first try.

Session hijacking was tricky. Worth every practice question.

The wireless and IoT attack questions were more conceptual than I expected - good coverage of the attack lifecycle without getting too deep into tool syntax.

I have been doing red team work for a few years, so the exploitation phases were not new to me. What surprised me was how much the exam weighs defense evasion - IDS evasion, firewall bypassing, covering tracks. NerdExam pushed me to understand the why behind those techniques, not just memorize names.

Solid practice resource. Some of the cryptography questions felt repetitive, but the web application hacking section gave me exactly the varied scenarios I needed.