CEH + Cysa+ - Base Knowledge

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Hello,
I'll start CEH + Cysa+ Training provided by my work place and mainly I've been on Windows Admin and certs (MCSA and MCSE).

I'm starting with Fundamentals of Kali Lunix, as sugested on soem parts, but the manual and online training sometimes get me stuck on the practical side, as some of the commands or instructions don't work.

I took the Getting Started with Linux here on ITPro and it was great from command line and bash, made a Excel with many topics for a quick search.

So my question is mainly: will it go so deep on Linux that I'll struggle with CEH? For example configuring Apache or other services would be expected in great deep (for example one of the Kali official manual asks to protect Apache with authentication but those instructions don't work ever). So I stressed a little bit.

I'll start my classes on Jan 18th. Any other ITProTV course to give some bases for this? I have a full time job so I'm looking for some quick learning for specific fundamentals and will look forward to the full CEH here.

Thank you everyone and keep up the good work!

Greetings @fabio-teles

This is a really good question, so I'm glad you asked.

For CEH, you'll need to have a basic "working" knowledge of Linux. This means that you are comfortable in the terminal, know how to move around the file system, know how to ready/edit/copy/move files, know how to work with permissions, know how users and groups are created and modified, know how connect via ssh, know how to start/stop/restart services, etc. Obviously this isn't an exhaustive list so your mileage may vary, but I can't think of any module that required you to set up services like Apache or otherwise and that knowledge isn't likely to be on the exam. I would head over to the EC-Council website and look at the CEH web page for the 'Course Outline' https://www.eccouncil.org/programs/certified-ethical-hacker-ceh/

I hope this helps bring your stress down. It is super frustrating when instructions aren't working and your trying to learn something. I would also suggest you check out our 'Linux Essentials' course to help get you more comfortable with Linux.

https://app.itpro.tv/course/linux-essentials/overview-lpi-linux-essentials

Cheers
Daniel

Thank you @daniel-lowrie87!
I was wondering that some parts of the official Kali course are a bit deeper for starting up, and your answer helped me a lot.

I already ended the Getting Started with Linux micro course and I'm checking the Course: Linux Command Line for the gaps. Made an spreadsheet with the commands and where are used for a quick search when needed. So I'll continue with this path and also check the course you mentioned for anything not seen on these other two.

Again, thank you so much for your help!
Regards,
Fábio Teles