CRTE Study Notes & Guide (Unofficial) + FREE CHEAT SHEET

This unofficial guide is an independently written and in-depth companion to the Certified Red Team Expert (CRTE) certification offered by Altered Security. Crafted by The Mastermind Notes team, this book distills the author's personal exam experience and hands-on lab practice into a tactical blueprint.

It targets professionals preparing for the CRTE exam, a rigorous red team certification focusing on Active Directory exploitation, post-exploitation tactics, and multi-domain lateral movement in fully patched Windows environments.

Authored and reviewed by certified professionals with firsthand experience preparing for and earning the certification.

About CRTE

The Practical Network Penetration Tester™ (PNPT) is not your typical multiple-choice certification. Instead, it’s a hands-on, real-world simulation designed to evaluate your ability to carry out a full-scale network penetration test , just like you would in a professional consulting role.

The PNPT exam doesn’t just test your technical knowledge , it measures your entire workflow, from reconnaissance to exploitation, reporting, and even presentation skills. It’s designed to reflect what employers actually expect from penetration testers in the field.

You'll dive deep into:

• AMSI & ETW bypasses
• PowerShell and AV evasion
• Delegation abuse (constrained, unconstrained, RBCD)
• Cross-forest Kerberoasting
• ADCS exploitation
• gMSA abuse
• SQL Server pivoting with PowerUpSQL
• PAM trust attacks and SIDHistory injection
• Practical Walkthrough(s)

Table of Contents

• About CRTE
• The Exam Format and Reporting Tips
• Using Report Ranger for Markdown Reporting
• Methodology
• Initial Access; Starting Point
• Reconnaissance:
• Local Privilege Escalation
• Enumeration
• Persistence Techniques
• Windows Pentesting
• AD Pentesting
• PowerShell & AV Evasion
• Payload Delivery
• Cross-Forest Attacks
• MSSQL Server Abuse
• Practical Scenarios
• Final Recap & Practice

Page count: 251

Format: PDF

How to Use This Book

If you have taken CRTP before or you have at least a working experience in Active Directory penetration testing, you will find this guide easy to follow.

If you haven't taken CRTP before and have little experience in AD pentesting, then its recommended you start with the CRTP first. Follow along with CRTP, pass the exam then go for CRTE and use this guide as your companion. The contents in this book overlaps with CRTP because CRTP is a pre-requisite for CRTE.

Disclaimer: Unofficial Study Material

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