How I Cleared the eJPT: Honest Experience and Learnings
Exam Duration and Difficulty I recently cleared the eJPT (eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester) exam, and overall, it was a very solid learning experience. I completed the exam in about 35 hours, including sleep. While it wasn’t extremely hard to pass, I wouldn’t call it easy either. I’d place it somewhere between intermediate and hard, especially if you’re completely new to penetration testing. More About Penetration Testing Than Web Apps One thing that surprised me was that the exam is not very focused on web application penetration testing. There is some web-related work, but most of the exam feels more like real-world network and system-level penetration testing. You spend more time enumerating services, exploiting misconfigurations, moving through systems, and understanding how different parts of the network connect, which I personally enjoyed a lot. ...