The Ethical Hacking Essentials Exam consists of 75 multiple-choice questions and lasts 2 hours. Candidates must demonstrate preliminary knowledge of computer and network security concepts, such as threats and vulnerabilities, password cracking, web application attacks, IoT and OT attacks, cloud computing, pen testing fundamentals, and more.
This exam measures skills in information security, ethical hacking, information security threats and vulnerabilities, password cracking techniques and countermeasures, social engineering techniques and countermeasures, network-level attacks, and countermeasures, web application attacks and countermeasures, wireless attacks and countermeasures, mobile attacks and countermeasures, IoT and OT attacks and countermeasures, cloud computing threats and countermeasures, and penetration testing fundamentals.