Certified Professional Ethical Hacking C)PEH Certification

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Outdated material!!! These videos are for the CEH version 8 exam. As of today, the exam is version 12. The course description says that this is not to prepare you for the CEH exam, but the instructor keeps saying that you'll need to know X for the exam or that you don't need to know Y for the exam. So the description is just legal nonsense to give them plausible deniability when their class doesn't teach you what you need to know. These videos are old. The OWASP list that he shows is from 2013. Some of the concepts are still valid, but some of the websites that he "strongly suggests" that you go and study are no longer valid, and some of the tools that he talks about are no longer in use, either. The newest operating system that he mentions is Windows 2012. The instructor is reading URLs. It's a waste of time to listen to him say "http://" whatever. It's on the slide that we can see, so why read it out loud? The videos end abruptly. Some were clearly part of a single longer video that they cut into chunks, presumably to have "more" videos in the UDemy listing. In at least one case (section 3, video 7 and section 6, video 21), the video cuts off in the middle of a sentence. In one case (section 3, video 9, 2:02), there's a chunk of video that appears to be missing. The instructor says, "Let's take a look at XYZ", there's a cut, then he says, "OK, so now you have a better understanding of XYZ". The demo was removed from the video for some reason, which means we don't get to see anything. Same issue with section 4, at the end of video 1 and the beginning of video 2- there's a demo that is missing. The screenshots have the instructor's cursor on them. That's great if we're watching him do something (which is rare, since he mostly just reads the slides), but for static slides, it's weird and looks sloppy. The videos are named "Protocols Part 1", "Protocols Part 2", or "Windows Hacking Part 1", "Windows Hacking Part 2", "Windows Hacking Part 3", etc, which makes it tough to figure out where you watched a specific section if you want to review it. The instructor says, "As you saw in the HPing video," but there was no such video. The same thing happens several other times where he says, "I'll show you more about this later," and then never does. Again, I think these videos were part of a longer series that was poorly cut to make the UDemy course. As other commenters have noted, the instructor is vague at times. He says, "You should know some of these ports." What does that mean? Should we know a specific list? Should we know all of them? His constant use of "and so forth" is also frustrating. It's like he's saying, "etcetera" or "yadda, yadda, yadda" a lot, which is useless in a lecture. Tell us the information or don't. Don't say "and so forth" and expect us to figure it out. There have been a few times when the instructor said "and so forth" multiple times in a single sentence. There was some material in here that I found useful or new, but I have no way of knowing if any of it is relevant to the current exam, which is the whole point of this class.

There was no audio for 3 to 4 lectures. So buying this course was not useful for me

Compared to other courses, it is very short, only 6.5 hours. It also seems outdated. I am taking other courses in the is subject matter (CEH), and is viewing this course to get a different perspective. I also do not like the videos just ending in almost mid-sentence and then jump to the next lesson; wish that there was a transitional statement of some sort. I do like the videos being under an hour, too long a video can loose an audience.