EC-Council has specified more than 80 objectives for the CEH-v6 certification exam, which are grouped under 26 modules. Following are some important areas in which an individual should possess good knowledge before taking the CEH-v6 312-50 Ethical Hacker exam:
- Understanding elements of security, security fundamentals, and security Testing.
- Understanding seven-step information gathering process.
- Performing information gathering, determining network range, identify active machines, finding open ports and applications, OS fingerprinting, and mapping the network.
- Performing Google hacking.
- Understanding Windows security and basic enumeration techniques.
- Performing SNMP enumeration and Windows hacking
- Performing email hacking.
- Understanding Linux file structure and basic Linux commands.
- Maintaining RootKit Access and Covering Tracks.
- Securing Linux from attacks.
- Understanding Trojans and how to use Trojans.
- Using hardware and software keystroke loggers.
- Using sniffers.
- Understanding components of the Web infrastructure, scanning Web servers, and Web server hacking.
- Performing SQL Injections.
- Understanding wireless technologies, wireless security, and attacks.
- Understanding IDS evasion techniques and tools.
- Understanding firewalls, firewall operations, and firewall types.
- Understanding honeypots, types of honeypots, and honeypots detection.
- Performing buffer overflows, types of buffer overflows and countermeasures.
- Understanding virus, virus transmission methods and virus infection types.
- Understanding spyware, common spyware tools, and spyware countermeasures.
- Understanding cryptographic algorithms, and performing cryptographic attacks.
- Performing steganography.
- Performing basic social engineering techniques.
- Performing physical security.