CompTIA Pentest+ (Ethical Hacking) Course & Practice Exam

Congrats. I'm about to start on basically the same thing but i was looking around because when I did A+, Net+, and Sec+ it was dual enrollment and school covered it but now I have to renew and PenTest+ seems like the best option but the official training is expensive, over $900 for the test, course, and labs. So would you say Jason Dion's course (this one?) and running through the TryHackMe labs be enough? I may have forgotten and now have 90 days to renew.

Here is what I used.

Primary Course Source - [Jason Dion's PenTest+ Training from Udemy.] (https://www.udemy.com/course/pentestplus/)
Primary Book Source - CompTIA's Offical PenTest+ Guide
Secondary Book Source - Sybex's Pentest+ Study Guide by Micke Chapple and David Seidl
Practice Exams - Sybex's PenTest+ Practice Exams by Crystal Panek and Robb Tracy

PenTest+ What I did to pass

I purchased Jason Dion’s course on Udemy as well as his 6 practice exams also on Udemy.

I went through his entire video course. I then would take one of his practice tests. Based on the results, I rewatched the material from that section. I also made sure to do all the knowledge checks in his course. Note: Jason Dion’s practice exams, in my opinion, are harder than the actual exam.

What really helped was some hands-on practice. You can study and memorize all day long but that will only get you so far. What really helped me was getting hands on keyboard time. TryHackMe has an AWESOME learning pat called PenTest+. It is approx. 51 hours of content that teaches you all about Nmap, burp suite, Metasploit, Nessus, hydra, and a bunch of other tools.

It teaches all about OWASP and network services. It even does some windows training.

The cool thing about this learning path is it will teach you all about the subject, walk you through how to actually execute it then at the end give you a task to actually hack into some boxes and exploit them.

What I did was go through the entire learning path, then I would try some of the other boxes to really make sure I grasped the skill.

Now, on the actual exam you will not be asked to do any hacking or anything, but it really helps to tie all the of the different domains together. I recommend the paid version of Try Hack Me. Thankfully there is a student discount so it only costs $8/mo. I have spent a ton of time in Try Hack Me.

Links:

https://www.udemy.com/course/pentestplus

https://www.udemy.com/course/comptia-pentest-pt0-001-exams

https://tryhackme.com/path/outline/pentestplus

I took the PenTest+ when it was beta for $50 because it really does go over the methodology of the business and consultant aspect of pen testing.

You probably don't need to take it for the price, I would save it and put it into your OSCP fund. But I highly recommend at least going over the material, even getting something like this:

https://www.udemy.com/course/pentestplus/

I also recommend if you are doing HTB to make write ups for them including remedy and mitigation options, just to try to apply it to real world.

Sure!

Some of these are practice test(s) only and some are combined with a video course.

• https://www.udemy.com/course/comptia-pentest-exam-practice-questions-with-explanation/
• https://www.udemy.com/course/comptia-pentest-exam-pt0-001/
• https://www.udemy.com/course/ethical-hacking-and-comptia-pentest-exam-prep-pt0-001/
• https://www.udemy.com/course/pentestplus/

I'm also using the practice tests available with purchase of AOI Pentest+ bundle from McGraw Hill.