the correct path in penetration testing :

the correct path in penetration testing :

you must ever see some scenes in some Movies or series where a mysterious boy in a dark room typing some magic in his black and green screen hhhh and he Hack Banks or some big Company 

and you be motivated to that and you want to try that . 

first what is hacking or pentration testing ? : Hacking is a banch of step that enable us to find and use some vulnariblility in a network or web application , a server or personal computer . this days everythinks conect to wifi so that make the possibility to Exploit it Higher , but you as a Hacker you can defens or attack

see also : Collection of skills development books in Hacking 

Like we writte above Hacker can do every think just by conecting your computer to network

• 1- so the first think you need to know is how networks works and how to secure a network i recommend the tow cisco certifications CCNA R&S and CCNA Security

• 2- and every computer have a OS so you need to know how this OS works i recommend you to Learn windows and linux
• 3- when you try to penetrating testing a web application ... but wate where the web application is the ansewer is in a Server Linux or Windows server so you need to know how to manager Linux Server and Windowns Server i recommend this tow Certifications : RHCSA/RHCSE and MCSA

see also : 1- Beginner way in Linux

see also : 2-Advanced way in Linux (Redhat way)

• 3-now after learning all this think you still can hack somthing i recommend to you CEH certification  The C|EH focuses on the latest malware attacks, the latest hacking tools, and the new emerging attack vectors in the cyberspace. It includes hacking challenges at the end of every module and is built 100% in compliance to the NICE 2.0 Framework to ensure a systematic job role mapping.

• 4-when you want to test a web application you need to first there server but the important think is to know how this web page was build . now you must learn programming i recommend you to start with HTML => JAVASCRIPT => PHP => SQL , python , C++ 

see also : Top 5 free source to learn Python

see also : 5 Best source for learn programming

see also : How to Teach Your Self Programming (My Experience)

• 5-CISSP is your goal after that you will learn in this certificate :

Security and Risk Management

Asset Security

Security Architecture and Engineering

Communication and Network Security

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Security Assessment and Testing

Security Operations

Software Development Security

summary :

1-CCNA R&S | CCNA security

2-Redhat | MCSA | server + 

3-CEH | security +

4-python , HTML => Javascripy => PHP => SQL , C++

5-CISSP