Pentester Prep Labs

The first time you take a domain by yourself, you’ll want to cry.

Ask any pentester about the moment it clicked and you’ll hear a version of the same story: the last
day of an engagement, the clock running down, years of study and late-night frustration all landing at once
when the domain finally falls. That feeling — not the certificate, not the tool list — is why
people do this work. Pentester Prep Labs was built to hand it to you.

This isn’t a course about penetration testing. It’s a real engagement you run end to
end, against a live corporate network built to be broken — and it doesn’t stop until the whole
domain is yours.

$599 · Lifetime access to the course · Your own private 5-machine lab pod ·
Practice exams for PenTest+ and CEH ($88 value) included.

What makes this different from every other pentest course

• A real domain to take all the way down. Your lab isn’t a single flag on a single
  box. It’s a live corporate Active Directory environment (corp.local) with a complete attack
  path seeded into it — a leaked credential, a Kerberoastable service account, an AS-REP-roastable user,
  a misconfigured ACL — that runs from your first foothold all the way to domain dominance. Reach the end
  and you’ll watch hundreds of accounts spill down your screen at once. But the rush isn’t
  the dump — it’s every move you made to earn it. The lab ends where a real engagement
  ends: the whole domain, yours. That’s not a capstone we bolted on. It’s the reason the lab
  exists.
• Your own isolated attack range — not a shared sandbox. The moment your pod is
  ready, you get a private five-machine environment on Google Cloud: a fully-loaded Kali box, a vulnerable
  Linux target, a Windows AD domain, a domain member, and a hidden host you can only reach by pivoting.
  It’s yours alone. Attack it as hard as you want.
• Everything in the browser — no VPN, no local setup. Your Kali attack box opens in
  a browser tab through a secure gateway. Nothing to install, nothing to configure. Open the tab and start
  working.
• You write it up like a real engagement. The job isn’t done when you get the
  shell — it’s done when you write the report. You document findings and deliver the writeup the
  way a working pentester actually does, because that’s the part that gets you hired.

What you get

• 60 lessons across 10 topics — structured, hands-on work from reconnaissance
  through reporting. Not slides. Not a talking head reading bullet points.
• Your own private lab pod, included for 60 days. Five real machines, isolated to you,
  provisioned automatically at enrollment. (Need more time? Extensions are available — but most students
  finish inside the window.)
• Hands-on labs in every topic — you’re not watching someone exploit, you’re
  exploiting. Recon, enumeration, web attacks, Metasploit, Active Directory, privilege escalation, pivoting,
  password cracking, and reporting.
• A full Active Directory attack chain — work a real domain from initial foothold to
  Domain Admin, the way you will on an internal engagement.
• Lifetime access to the course. Every future update, every new lab, every scenario we
  add to the curriculum — yours. Buy it once.

It’s going to be hard. We want you to enjoy the journey.

Let’s be straight with you: this lab is genuinely hard, on purpose — the struggle is where the
skill gets built. But the journey to that first domain is the part we want you to actually enjoy, not just
survive. Hard is not the same as cruel. We won’t hand you the answer the second you’re stuck
— earning it is the whole point — and we won’t let you waste days drowning either. Ask the
community. Use the hints. We may not throw you the life jacket right away, but we’ll always show you
where they’re kept. Struggle, enjoy the journey, get better.

Certification prep — two practice exams included

The material is built to prepare you for the hands-on certifications that matter, and two practice exams
come free with your enrollment:

Unlimited attempts. Randomized questions. Every topic shows exactly which exam domains it
maps to and prompts you to check your readiness. Beyond those two, the course is built to prepare you for the
leading hands-on certs — eJPT, PNPT, and CEH Practical — and even builds your
foundation toward the field’s most advanced practical certifications. A detailed Certification Alignment
Guide inside the course maps every topic to the exams you’re targeting so you know exactly where you
stand before exam day.

The 10 topics

1. Penetration Testing Fundamentals
2. Reconnaissance & OSINT
3. Scanning & Enumeration
4. Web Application Testing
5. Network Exploitation
6. Password Attacks
7. Wireless & Social Engineering
8. Post-Exploitation & Persistence
9. Reporting & Documentation
10. Pentester Career Lab & Capstone

Odapeeka State University

Every lab happens at one place: Odapeeka State University. 8,200 students, an IT team of fourteen doing
the work of forty, a budget that never quite covers it. This time you’re not their defender —
you’re the pentester they hired to find what’s broken before someone else does. The name means
something — talent is like cream, it rises. Do the work. Get found.

Who this is for

• You’re trying to land a junior pentester or red team role and need something real
  on your resume.
• You have the certs, or you’re getting them, and you’re missing the hands-on half.
• You’re changing careers and need to prove you can do the work, not just pass a
  test.
• You’re already in security — SOC, sysadmin, network — and moving into offense.

You need foundational knowledge and a willingness to do the work. If you can use a terminal and you’re
ready to be frustrated and figure it out anyway, you’re ready.

The course Cover6 was built on

Pentester Prep was Cover6’s very first course — the class the whole company
grew out of. We taught it in person for years before it ever went online: 39 cohorts, and
271 people earned a completion certificate. This is that curriculum, rebuilt as a live lab
you can run on demand.

Thirteen years. Two hundred-plus presentations. Nearly ten thousand people in the Cover6 community. Built
and taught by Tyrone E. Wilson, a practitioner, not a content company. The attack chain in
this lab isn’t theoretical — it’s modeled on the kind of engagement that made him fall in
love with this work: the last day, the clock running down, the domain finally falling — rebuilt move
for move so you can reach that moment yourself.

What $599 actually buys

• Lifetime access to the course — buy it once, keep it, grow with it as the
  curriculum grows.
• Your own private five-machine attack range, provisioned automatically and included for
  60 days — a real Active Directory domain to compromise, not a box that resets in an hour.
• Two certification practice exams included ($88 value), unlimited attempts.
• A real engagement, start to finish — recon to Domain Admin to the written
  report.
• You become Cover6 alumni for life.

Alumni for life

Finish this course and you’re Cover6 alumni — which comes with a standing 20% discount
on everything in the Cover6 Academy going forward (PECB certifications and merch excluded). Our
community has always been a relationship, not a transaction. Already an OG student or alumni? Your discount
applies automatically at checkout — register with the email you used before and we’ll recognize
you.

FAQ

How long does it take? Most students work through it inside the 60-day lab window. The
course content itself is yours for life — there’s no clock on the lessons.

Do I need to know Kali or Linux already? You need to be comfortable in a terminal. The
course walks the tools, but this is the hands-on half of your training, not an absolute-beginner intro.

How does the lab work? The moment your order completes, we provision a private
five-machine environment just for you and email your access the moment it’s ready. It opens in your
browser — no VPN, no install.

What happens after 60 days? Your lab pod winds down, but your course access is permanent.
Extensions are available if you need more lab time.

Do I need the certs first? No. The course prepares you for them, and PenTest+ and CEH
practice exams are included.

Will this get me a job? No course can promise that. What this does is give you something
true to say when they ask what you’ve actually done — and a report you can show.

Come get your first one.

Every pentester remembers the first domain they took alone. The lab ends where that day ends — with
the whole thing yours.

Your own range. Starting now. — $599.

Cover6 Pentester Prep Labs is an independent training
program. All certification names are the property of their respective owners; this course is not affiliated
with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any certification body.