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# Machines

* Perform all possible offensive attack stages. 
* Map activity with MITRE
* Understand how and why vulnerability works
* Understand how vulnerability can be fixed on the compromised host
* Understand how vulnerability can be triggered by IDS/IPS/XIDS/NIDS
* Understand how to cover and clean-up all traces left
* Use Metasploit but:
  * Try to understand and perform same activity fully manually
  * Find/write your own scripts of automation, since Metasploit is not allowed on OSCP
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