HTB CPTS Review

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[@jsanchez1980]

Congratulations! Looking forward to getting started on this later this year.

[@overgrowncarrot1]

It was a lot of fun, the job role path really sets you up for it.

[@Bluegeneral05]

Congrats! I'm just getting started in my journey. I have been looking at this one.

[@overgrowncarrot1]

It is rough but academy will teach you everything you need to know.

[@allan62140]

echo the sentiments of many - absolutely well done

[@notTh3Mag1c1an]

Congratulations man 🎉🎉

[@BenthzG]

godly effort and skill, congrats brother

[@Trent_111]

I just want to say thank you man. You’re very motivational and your content is awesome. I know if you can put the work in, I can too. Trebds

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Thanks trebds, for the ones that do not know trebds is always on chadbnoob's discord and always attempting new boxes, starting conversations on machines and is always actively learning something new. He helps the community all the time on the discord and I feel pushes himself to learn more than anyone else I have really met.

[@Strive117]

Huge red team noob, I've been mostly focused on blue. I tried going through CPTS as my first course and holy shit it broke me pretty hard. decided to go for PEH route first. Good to hear that CPTS is a monster, def moving towards it eventually, nice review!

[@overgrowncarrot1]

As a first course, I would quit lol. Good job at sticking with it and going the PEH route. I am sure after that route more of the CPTS route started to click and a lot of ohhhhs happened lol

[@SamNang-uh9ej]

Please kindly create more videos related to the CPTS exam. This could provide us with a better chance of passing the CPTS exam. Thank you.

[@916-22k]

Congratulations man🎉 (110 pages of documentation?!?😮)

[@pewcfpv8056]

I failed the OSCP back in December. Feels like the course work didn't prepare me well for the exam. Planning on going through the CPTS first to over prepare for the OSCP. Plus I want to actually be skillful in the field.

[@overgrowncarrot1]

You will get it this next time

[@RamielAnon]

Congratulations Ryan! Failed my first attempt with 11 flags after spending 4 days on flag 9 haha, also just got my review, doing a retake in a couple days, Happy for you man :)

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Just looking at HTB discord and you will see about 100 posts on did you pass flag 9 lol. That is going to be a meme soon. It will be like try harder, except people are just going to say flag 9 lol

[@RamielAnon]

@@overgrowncarrot1More like over 200 comments 😆Funny thing is, flag 9 was actually easy, you would not believe what I was stuck on man, one of the initial vectors for flag 9 wasnt explained in the course properly and I had no prior practice on that until after the exam(cant divulge what that was here cause of ToS) but still it was an awesome experience! Hoping to get the remaining 3 flags. Did you get all flags?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

I just got what was needed to pass. Brain was fried after that

[@V3ryB4s1cH4ck1ng]

congrats, welcome to the club! Thinking about taking the CBBH soon?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

I am like 90 percent through the job role path for it, don't think I will actually take the exam for that one. If an employer paid for it I would, or if an employer wanted me to have it before starting a certain position I would. I feel that just the paths themselves, like I have said before, are amazing training.

[@cucuionut424]

Congrats! Could you please mention other things about ? What you need to do to know for sure that you are ready to take the exam after you complete the path ? I know that you mention that the job path is enough, but sometimes I”m filling like I would like to test that 😅! Thank you in advance, congrats again and keep up the good work, I would mention that I”m a soc analyst and have already the ejpt!

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Everything you ate taught in Academy you need to know for the penetration tester job role path. Everything.

[@Surfinerd]

Congrats Ryan! I just recently get my eWPT, do you think is enough to do the AD modules in htb academy for CPTS?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Those two things are totally different, but I would say you have a better foundation for the web attacks taught throughout the penetration tester job role path.

[@ChadB_n00b]

Amazing work good sir!

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Always good to see you, and thank you

[@gideonbennett4187]

Thank you !

[@Lojique]

Congrats on passing! This is something I plan on doing after I take the OSEP. Roughly how long did it take for you to go through the path and how much time were you putting in?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

About 3 months at a couple hours a day. However, at one point for about a week I was able to complete around 12 hours a day of stuff and obviously during that time knocked out a lot of it

[@Zachsnotboard]

Has mentioning the completion of this cert helped when looking at jobs or ur current job ? I’m an info sec analyst looking to get into pen testing so I really appreciated your video man

[@overgrowncarrot1]

I am in the military so this cert doesn't really do anything there. I don't retire from the military for a other year or so, but when I do retire I feel like for HR the OSCP does it, for actually knowledge and knowledge base assessments when looking for a job CPTS proves it

[@darrylwest3106]

Great Review!

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Thank you

[@memedaddyz]

Thanks!

[@Dadstin]

I did the CPTS path 100% but failed my 1st attempt at OSCP. 😞 I retake it next month. Congrats!!

[@overgrowncarrot1]

You will get it this next time.

[@Dadstin]

@@overgrowncarrot1 your videos help out so much man! Thank you for what you do. 🦾

[@overgrowncarrot1]

@user-hk8xn1ji6f I already have it

[@DiscomfortPioneer]

Men you can do it the next time! I believe en you!! 😎

[@l2xsniper1]

Interesting, I am thinking about their new senior web pentester path, so hearing that this was the best one so far for network pentesting certs that you've come across I'm wondering how good their new web one is.

[@overgrowncarrot1]

I feel like they would only move up from here. I have seen a few people already talk about the path being amazing. They are truly setting the bar high for other organizations to try and keep up.

[@TheKurdishLemon]

What are the prerequisites, if any, before starting the job role path? Thanks for the great review and Congratulations :))

[@overgrowncarrot1]

There are not any, however you should have an understanding of linux command line and know how to use kali linux or parrot

[@behindYOUR6]

thanks for sharing

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Thanks for watching

[@dollarboysushil]

Is the penetration tester path sufficient for CPTS, or should we have specific knowledge prior to the penetration tester path?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

It is sufficient, but you need to understand everything taught

[@user-io6zg2vn7s]

공유에 감사합니다

[@k_usuan]

Good content . How do you take note for the HTB academy course .

[@overgrowncarrot1]

I used obsidian

[@martinlastname8548]

I am really hating the OSCP training if you would even call it that. I was thinking of doing this. Seems like you recommend?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

This is great, very difficult at times and you be extremely frustrated at times when doing it. I feel more frustrated than OSCP, however, you learn a lot more

[@00219]

Congrats, did you play any pro labs before you take the exam?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

I did dante a while ago, not in preparation for this

[@b0ttlen3ck]

I knew you would pass! Happy for you.

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Thanks

[@TheTacopai]

am in 30% of the course,

[@longitze290]

How long did it take you to finish the pentest path?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Around 3 months

[@user-wp5en1lt8r]

im going through this cpts path now. i was planing on taking this or ecppt2 from ine which is better

[@overgrowncarrot1]

CPTS

[@overgrowncarrot1]

As I said that I just saw that eCPPT is updating their certification starting in March / April timeframe

[@user-wp5en1lt8r]

@@overgrowncarrot1 ya i saw that but the thing is to buy there training materials for ecppt from ine you have to be a premium member so i dont think i will get that as its almsot 700 dollars for that material for the subscription to get that material and thats really no okay so maybe another cert i just got the ejpt so thats why i preffered ecppt next but thought like ejpt the training would also come with the voucher but saw now thats not the case

[@overgrowncarrot1]

I forgot about that, yeah that is a little expensive

[@user-wp5en1lt8r]

if i do the cpts path would that be enough for ecppt as i think that is a bit more easy in difficulty than cpts as i just came from ejpt @@overgrowncarrot1

[@iBetUrWet]

Stupid question but, cant you just simply pay someone to do it for you and get the cert?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Yup

[@iBetUrWet]

@@overgrowncarrot1 lol thats a hoax

[@overgrowncarrot1]

You can simply pay someone to do it in any of the exams... with a fake ID you can pay someone to do all you comptia exams, OSCP with a fake ID, any non proctored exam you can pay someone to take it. If you really wanted to you can pay got flags for HTB seasonal machines lol, people actually do that. Amazingly enough you can buy services for everything in the world.

[@iBetUrWet]

@@overgrowncarrot1 wow that is crazy

[@iBetUrWet]

@@overgrowncarrot1 im now questioning myself if it is worth finishing my cybersec degree.. i could simply selflearn and shit on all those moneymaking certs and university

[@nocturne2172]

How long you been in the industry?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

I am not a penetration tester

[@nocturne2172]

@@overgrowncarrot1alright but how long you been into hacking?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

A few years now

[@wesflergo8553]

Did you do any pro labs?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Not I preparation for this I did dante a while back

[@wesflergo8553]

@@overgrowncarrot1The exam is no joke, I’m currently fighting for flag9

[@overgrowncarrot1]

The infamous flag 9... you got this

[@lrdvile]

@@wesflergo8553taking it soon lemme know how it goes 😅

[@wesflergo8553]

@@lrdvile good luck dude, I just passed today

[@mdzahid2276]

Sir please make a course that will help us to pass like ejpt and ejptv2 make a course on CPTS 🎉

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Someone else has talked to me about it, the real problem is that there are so many different attacks, it would really just be going through a bunch of machines. And all different types of machines like web attacks, Linux priv esc, windows priv esc, lateral movement and everything else.

[@mdzahid2276]

@@overgrowncarrot1 Please name those machine or tryhackme room that would help me

[@Im-VT]

Just as a heads up HTB gets pressed even when you reveal even insignificant info about cert like total flags

[@overgrowncarrot1]

I have seen it in other places, but if they want me to take the review down I will

[@RamielAnon]

Nah, disclosure of flag number is allowed, heck even HTB discloses the number of flags and you can also view that on the certification page on the website, altho disclosure of number of machines is a violation of TOS

[@overgrowncarrot1]

@RamielAnon thanks for the heads up. I will have to watch the video again I think I just said a larger network.

[@facthisum_1M]

make a course basic to pro for CTPS please

[@overgrowncarrot1]

I wouldn't be able to do anything like that for a while since I don't have my whole computer with me, it will take a few months to even start the process

[@facthisum_1M]

@@overgrowncarrot1 Ok please make it when u take time that will be very helpful for us. Moreover you are our inspiration

[@darrylwest3106]

I am 60% in the course

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Good work and keep pushing.

[@iamZANIX]

3 percent😂 of cpts

[@anputhegod246]

How much was the course if you dont mind me asking @overgrowncarrot1

[@overgrowncarrot1]

So it all depends, you can do a silver payment per month and then do the course that way. I have a student subscription so it is 8 dollars a month for up to and including tier 2, and 210 dollars for the exam. Or you could just buy the cubes, however that way is more expensive in the end.

[@ndanilo]

⁠@@overgrowncarrot1congrats on your CPTS! I’m wondering the student subscription can cover all of the modules included in the penetration tester job path? Or will I need to pay extra? Are the modules Tier III and IV necessary for the CPTS?

[@overgrowncarrot1]

Student subscription covers the entire job role path