The Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) – Practical focuses on validating real-world, hands-on skills required to perform ethical hacking tasks in a live environment. It emphasizes the practical application of ethical hacking concepts across multiple attack scenarios, tools, and techniques used by attackers in real-world situations. Through a rigorous, lab-based exam, CEH Practical tests your ability to identify vulnerabilities, exploit systems, analyze attack vectors, and apply appropriate countermeasures.
This certification is designed to demonstrate that you can think and act like a hacker—but with defensive intent—by successfully navigating realistic network, system, and application security challenges. By gaining hands-on exposure to common system weaknesses and vulnerabilities, you are better equipped to help organizations strengthen their security controls, reduce attack surfaces, and minimize the risk of cyber incidents.
CEH Practical follows a structured, methodology-driven approach across all ethical hacking domains, ensuring you can perform the job role of an ethical hacker with confidence. It validates your readiness to operate in real-world security environments and reinforces a proactive security mindset required to defend modern infrastructures effectively.
Demonstrate Practical Ethical Hacking Skills
Apply ethical hacking techniques—including threat vector identification, network scanning, OS detection, vulnerability analysis, and exploitation—to solve real cybersecurity challenges.Identify and Validate Security Weaknesses
Locate live systems and vulnerable services, enumerate targets, and expose security loopholes across networks, applications, and systems.Execute Real-World Attack Techniques
Perform system hacking, web application attacks (like SQL injection and XSS), malware exploitation, packet sniffing, and other offensive techniques in a live lab environment that mimics real corporate infrastructure.Analyze and Exploit Vulnerabilities
Use manual and automated methods to assess system and application vulnerabilities and demonstrate proof-of-concept exploits that mirror real attack scenarios.Bridge Theory and Practice
Translate theoretical knowledge from the CEH foundational training into practical, timed lab challenges, validating readiness to operate as an ethical hacker in real environments.Validate Cybersecurity Job-Readiness
Prove that you can perform essential penetration testing tasks under time constraints, which is critical for roles such as penetration tester, security analyst, vulnerability assessor, or SOC specialist.
To be eligible to challenge the EC-Council CEH certification examination, the candidate has two options:
- Attend Official Network Security Training by EC-Council: If a candidate has completed an official EC-Council training either at an Accredited Training Center, via the iClass platform, or at an approved academic institution, the candidate is eligible to challenge the relevant EC-Council exam without going through the application process.
- Attempt the Exam without Official EC-Council Training: In order to be considered for the EC-Council CEH exam without attending official network security training, the candidate must have at least 2 years of work experience in the Information Security domain. If the candidate has the required work experience, they can submit an eligibility application form along with USD 100.00, a non-refundable fee.
Exam name : Certified Ethical Hacker (ANSI) Exam
Number of Questions: 125
Passing Score: Depending on which exam form is challenged, cut scores can range from 60% to 85%.
Test Duration: 4 Hours
Test Format: Multiple Choice
Exam name : Certified Ethical Hacker (Practical) Exam
Number of Questions: 20
Passing Score: Depending on which exam form is challenged, cut scores can range from 60% to 85%.
Test Duration: 6 Hours
Test Format: iLabs cyber range
EC-Council Exams are provided in multiple forms (i.e., different question banks). Each form is carefully analyzed through beta testing with an appropriate sample group under the purview of a committee of subject matter experts that ensure that each of our exams not only have academic rigor but also have “real world” applicability. We also have a process to determine the difficulty rating of each question. The individual rating then contributes to an overall “Cut Score” for each exam form. To ensure each form has equal assessment standards, cut scores are set on a “per exam form” basis. Depending on which exam form is challenged, cut scores can range from 60% to 85%.
Ethical Hackers
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Lectures – 20 |
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Duration – 40 hours |
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Skill level – All levels |
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Language – English |
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