Certification review

Offensive Security Wireless Professional (OSWP) Certification Review

A retrospective OSWP review covering the PEN-210 learning path, practical wireless lab work, exam preparation, and lessons for future candidates.

I just got my results and want to share my experience with the course and exam for Offensive Security Wireless Attacks PEN-210.

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Background

I already had some wireless-security experience from the eLearnSecurity PTP course, so I spent about two weeks preparing for PEN-210.

Preparation

The PEN-210 material covered the exam topics, but at that time it did not include practice labs. I built a small wireless lab for hands-on work.

For the lab preparation, I bought two hardware devices - A router and Wireless Adapter (With Monitor Mode). I got the Offensive Security recommended router NETGEAR AC1000 (R6080), and I found the Alfa AWUS036NHA wireless adapter, as you see below.

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For Wireless Adapter I got TP-Link WL-WN722N v2/3.

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Exam

The exam guide described three networks. Compromising the mandatory network and one of the other two was required to pass.

In the reporting phase, I used the Offical Offensive Security OSWP Report opens in a new tab.

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Conclusions

I enjoyed the whole course and the exam experience, and I would totally say the course is worth it.

Regarding this exam and labs, you should rely on your own lab to prepare for wireless attacks. Also for the exam.

I learned a lot about Wi-Fi hacking, and you should do your own arsenal of notes ready.

I used the regular command line interface for Kali Linux with opening multiple tabs to handle the wireless attacks.