What does the Certified Ethical Hacker v13 complexity score measure?

It measures how structurally demanding the questions are, not the official pass rate. We score every question in our Certified Ethical Hacker v13 bank on four measurable signals and combine them into a 1-10 score. Higher means more multi-select items, longer scenario questions, more interactive code items and deeper explanations — that is, questions that require reasoning rather than recall.

Which Certified Ethical Hacker v13 domain is the hardest?

By our measurement, Web Application Hacking is the hardest domain in the Certified Ethical Hacker v13 bank, scoring 2.3 out of 10. The most approachable domain is AI & Machine Learning at 2.0.

How many questions were analysed?

We analysed 125 Foundation questions for the Certified Ethical Hacker v13, split across 9 exam domains. The figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl, so they never drift from what you actually get in a practice session.

Is this the official pass rate?

No, and we do not publish one, because vendors do not release reliable per-domain pass rates. This is our own measurement of the bank. Treat it as a map of where the demanding questions sit in the blueprint, not as a prediction of your score.

Measured data

Certified Ethical Hacker v13

Name: Certified Ethical Hacker v13 exam question complexity by domain
Creator: CERTILUM

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We scored 125 real Certified Ethical Hacker v13 exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.

125 questions scored

9 domains

2.1/10 overall complexity

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Complexity by exam domain

Higher scores mean more demanding question formats. The exam score is computed over the whole bank, not averaged across domains.

Exam complexity score2.1/10Gentle · measured across 125 bank questions

AI & Machine Learning12 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
Cloud Hacking8 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
38% multi-select · 0% scenario · 25% interactive
Cryptography5 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
40% multi-select · 0% scenario · 20% interactive
Network & Perimeter30 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
Reconnaissance & Footprinting15 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
Scanning & Enumeration15 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
System Hacking18 questions · complexity 2.2/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 6% scenario · 33% interactive
Web Application Hacking12 questions · complexity 2.3/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 8% scenario · 33% interactive
Wireless, Mobile & IoT Hacking10 questions · complexity 2.2/10 · Gentle
40% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive

Full per-domain breakdown

Blueprint weight, bank size and question format mix for every domain of the exam.

Domain	Blueprint	Questions	Single	Multi	Interactive	Complexity
AI & Machine Learning	10%	12	4	4	4	2.0/10Gentle
Cloud Hacking	6%	8	3	3	2	2.0/10Gentle
Cryptography	4%	5	2	2	1	2.0/10Gentle
Network & Perimeter	24%	30	10	10	10	2.0/10Gentle
Reconnaissance & Footprinting	12%	15	5	5	5	2.0/10Gentle
Scanning & Enumeration	12%	15	5	5	5	2.0/10Gentle
System Hacking	14%	18	6	6	6	2.2/10Gentle
Web Application Hacking	10%	12	4	4	4	2.3/10Gentle
Wireless, Mobile & IoT Hacking	8%	10	4	3	3	2.2/10Gentle

How the score is calculated

The formula is fixed and public, so anyone can reproduce these numbers from the same bank.

Every question in the Certified Ethical Hacker v13 bank is measured on four signals that can be read directly from the database. Each signal is expressed as a share of the questions in the domain, and the four shares are combined with fixed weights:

Multi-select questions (40% weight). Items with more than one correct answer. The candidate has to find all of them, which is the single hardest format in the bank.
Scenario questions (30% weight). Questions longer than 150 characters, which describe a situation instead of a definition and therefore test reasoning rather than recall.
Interactive questions (20% weight). Items that require reading code or a configuration snippet.
Deep explanations (10% weight). Questions whose explanation runs past 300 characters, which signals a concept with real nuance behind it.

The combined share is multiplied by ten to produce a 1-10 score. The exam-level score is computed over the whole bank rather than averaged across domains, so a small domain cannot distort the total. Figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl.

Data set: Certilum Certified Ethical Hacker v13 Foundation question bank, 125 questions, 9 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official EC-Council statistic.

Questions analysed: 125
Exam domains: 9
Hardest domain: Web Application Hacking (2.3)
Most approachable domain: AI & Machine Learning (2.0)
Question mix: 43 single · 42 multi · 40 interactive
Measured on: Foundation

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