NTERVIEW POINT OF VIEW

✔️ Cyber Security basics

✔️ Ethical Hacking approach

✔️ VA vs PT

✔️ Red Team vs Blue Team

✔️ Networking basics

✔️ TCP / UDP / Ports / IP / DNS / Host

✔️ Linux basics (why Linux used)

✔️ Network Security basics

✔️ Firewall / IDS / IPS / VPN

✔️ Nmap (concept + basic scan)

✔️ Metasploit (what it is, not deep usage)

✔️ Wireshark (traffic analysis concept)

✔️ Web Security basics

✔️ SQL Injection / XSS

✔️ DoS / DDoS

✔️ OWASP Top 10 (VERY IMPORTANT)

✔️ Phishing / Social Engineering

✔️ CIA Triad

✔️ Malware types

👉 Interview weight: ~70%

✔️ Netcat / Socat (what & why)

✔️ Reverse shell vs Bind shell

✔️ Burp Suite modules (Proxy, Repeater, Intruder)

✔️ Directory fuzzing / Enumeration

✔️ Google Dorking / Shodan

✔️ CMS security (WordPress, Joomla – basics)

✔️ Nessus (vulnerability scanner)

✔️ Risk Assessment

✔️ ISO 27001 (high-level idea)

✔️ Bug Bounty basics

✔️ VAPT reporting (what a report contains)

👉 Interview weight: ~15%

❌ Scapy packet crafting

❌ Hping3

❌ PowerShell Empire (deep)

❌ AD Golden Ticket attacks

❌ Kerberos ticket attacks (deep)

❌ Malware reverse engineering

❌ Sandbox evasion techniques

❌ SSH tunneling commands

❌ HTTPTunneling via DPI

❌ Custom payload creation

❌ Active Directory persistence tricks

👉 Interview weight: ~5–10% (optional)