Tech Exam Prep
Tech Exam Prep is a free, daily podcast covering the most in-demand IT and technology certification exams, including CompTIA Security+, AWS Cloud Practitioner, and CCNA. Each five-minute episode breaks down one exam topic with concrete examples, common exam traps, and memory tricks to help listeners pass on their first attempt. The podcast is created by Ran Chen, who holds multiple licenses and designations, and is passionate about making high-quality exam preparation accessible. For free practice questions, AI-powered explanations, and study guides, listeners can visit the OpenExamPrep website.
Episodes
CCA-F Exam Prep 38, Building an MCP Server
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- An MCP server is a program that exposes capabilities like too
CCA-F Exam Prep 37, MCP Resources, Tools, and Prompts
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The distinct functions of MCP primitives: Tools perform actio
CCA-F Exam Prep 36, Designing Good Tool Definitions
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- A tool definition consists of three key parts: a clear, verb-
CCA-F Exam Prep 35, MCP Architecture — Hosts, Clients, and Servers
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- An MCP Host is the user-facing AI application, such as Claude
CCA-F Exam Prep 34, What Is the Model Context Protocol MCP
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- MCP is an open standard, not a proprietary tool, designed to
CCA-F Exam Prep 33, Prompt Evaluation and Iteration
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- To treat prompts as code by applying a systematic cycle of te
CCA-F Exam Prep 32, Handling Ambiguity and Clarifying Questions
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Why asking targeted clarifying questions is essential when us
CCA-F Exam Prep 31, Prompting for Tool Use
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Why precise tool descriptions, including name, purpose, and u
CCA-F Exam Prep 30, Chain-of-Thought and Extended Thinking
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- How Chain-of-Thought prompting improves accuracy on complex,
CCA-F Exam Prep 29, Few-Shot Prompting
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Few-shot prompting guides a model by providing 2-5 input-outp
CCA-F Exam Prep 28, Constraining Output — Schemas and Prefilling
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- To define explicit output schemas with strict data types and
CCA-F Exam Prep 27, Structured Output — JSON and XML
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Why structured output (JSON/XML) is a critical integration sk
CCA-F Exam Prep 26, System Prompts vs User Prompts
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- System prompts establish the AI's persistent role, rules, and
CCA-F Exam Prep 25, Prompt Engineering Fundamentals
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The four essential components of a strong prompt: Role, Task,
CCA-F Exam Prep 24, Context Management in Claude Code
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- That the CCA-F exam tests context management as a core skill
CCA-F Exam Prep 23, Configuration — Settings and Environment
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- How Claude Code uses a cascading system of user-level and pro
CCA-F Exam Prep 22, Workflows and the Plan-Apply Pattern
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The Plan-Apply pattern is a two-step workflow: the AI first p
CCA-F Exam Prep 21, Subagents in Claude Code
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- How subagents in Claude Code function as specialized, tempora
CCA-F Exam Prep 20, Permissions and the Approval Model
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Claude Code's permission model defaults to 'ask-each-time' fo
CCA-F Exam Prep 19, Slash Commands and Custom Skills
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- What slash commands are and their role in standardizing workf
CCA-F Exam Prep 18, Hooks — Running Commands on Lifecycle Events
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- That hooks are for deterministic policy enforcement, while pr
CCA-F Exam Prep 17, CLAUDE.md — Project Memory and Instructions
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- How CLAUDE.md provides persistent, project-specific instructi
CCA-F Exam Prep 16, What Is Claude Code
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Claude Code is an agentic tool that directly manipulates file
CCA-F Exam Prep 15, Common Agentic Anti-Patterns
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to identify over-engineered solutions that add unnecessar
CCA-F Exam Prep 14, Tool Use in the Agentic Loop
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- How Claude's native tool use (function calling) enables model
CCA-F Exam Prep 13, Guardrails and Human-in-the-Loop
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Guardrails are safety controls that bound an AI agent's auton
CCA-F Exam Prep 12, Plan Mode and Multi-Step Planning
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Plan mode separates planning from execution, a crucial patter
CCA-F Exam Prep 11, Escalation — When to Hand Off
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The two primary escalation paths tested on the CCA-F exam: AI
CCA-F Exam Prep 10, Retries and Error Handling
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- To differentiate between transient (retryable) and permanent
CCA-F Exam Prep 9, The Critic-Refine Pattern
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The Critic-Refine pattern is a three-step process: generate a
CCA-F Exam Prep 8, Orchestration — Sequential vs Parallel Execution
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Sequential execution is for dependent tasks that must run one
CCA-F Exam Prep 7, Routing and Classification Patterns
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Routing uses a lightweight classifier to dispatch incoming re
CCA-F Exam Prep 6, Subagents — When and How to Use Them
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The definition of a subagent as a specialized agent for a foc
CCA-F Exam Prep 5, Choosing Models by Capability, Cost, and Latency
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to differentiate the three main tiers of Anthropic's Clau
CCA-F Exam Prep 4, What Is an Agent — Tools, Loops, and Memory
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- An agent is an autonomous system where a model uses a loop to
CCA-F Exam Prep 3, Thinking Like a Solution Architect
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to prioritize business requirements and technical constra
CCA-F Exam Prep 2, Exam Format, Scoring, and the Six Scenarios
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The CCA-F exam uses about six detailed scenarios to test your
CCA-F Exam Prep 1, What Is the Claude Certified Architect Foundations
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- What the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCA-F) cer
CCNA Exam Prep 65, CCNA Exam Strategy and Question Patterns
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The CCNA exam structure consists of 100-120 questions to be a
CCNA Exam Prep 64, JSON, YAML, XML Data Encoding
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- JSON uses curly braces for objects and key-value pairs with d
CCNA Exam Prep 63, Configuration Management — Ansible, Puppet, Chef
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Ansible is agentless and uses a push model, making it ideal f
CCNA Exam Prep 62, REST APIs — Methods, Status Codes, JSON
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- REST APIs use standard HTTP methods like GET (read), POST (cr
CCNA Exam Prep 61, Traditional vs Controller-Based Architectures
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The key differences between a distributed control plane in tr
CCNA Exam Prep 60, Network Automation — Why and Impact
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Why manual network configuration is inefficient and prone to
CCNA Exam Prep 59, ACL Placement and Numbered vs Named
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In this episode you will learn:
- Standard ACLs should be placed as close to the destination as
CCNA Exam Prep 58, ACL Standard vs Extended
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In this episode you will learn:
- The fundamental difference between Standard ACLs (source IP o
CCNA Exam Prep 57, Wireless Security — WPA2, WPA3, OWE
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- WPA2-Personal uses a single Pre-Shared Key (PSK), while WPA2-
CCNA Exam Prep 56, Remote Access VPN — SSL VPN and AnyConnect
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The core difference between a per-user Remote Access VPN and
CCNA Exam Prep 55, Site-to-Site VPN and IPsec Overview
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The three core security services IPsec provides: confidential
CCNA Exam Prep 54, DHCP Snooping and Dynamic ARP Inspection
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- DHCP snooping distinguishes between trusted uplink ports and
CCNA Exam Prep 53, Layer 2 Security — Port Security
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In this episode you will learn:
- How port security restricts port access by limiting the numbe
CCNA Exam Prep 52, AAA — RADIUS vs TACACS+
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In this episode you will learn:
- The difference between connection-oriented TCP for TACACS+ (p
CCNA Exam Prep 51, Password Policies and Local Authentication
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The `enable secret` command provides strong MD5-hashed protec
CCNA Exam Prep 50, Security Concepts — Threat, Vulnerability, Exploit
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The critical differences between a threat (the actor), a vuln
CCNA Exam Prep 49, SSH vs Telnet, TFTP and FTP
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In this episode you will learn:
- Telnet sends all data, including usernames and passwords, in
CCNA Exam Prep 48, SNMP and Syslog Severity Levels
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In this episode you will learn:
- The critical security differences between SNMPv2c's plaintext
CCNA Exam Prep 47, NTP — Stratum Levels and Configuration
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In this episode you will learn:
- The meaning of NTP stratum levels, where a lower number signi
CCNA Exam Prep 46, NAT — Static, Dynamic, PAT (Overload)
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In this episode you will learn:
- Static NAT creates a permanent one-to-one mapping, ideal for
CCNA Exam Prep 45, DNS — Recursive vs Iterative, Records
This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The critical difference between a recursive DNS query (client
CCNA Exam Prep 44, DHCP — Server, Client, Relay (IP Helper)
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In this episode you will learn:
- The four steps of the DHCP DORA process: Discover, Offer, Req
CCNA Exam Prep 43, IPv6 Routing — Static and OSPFv3 Basics
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In this episode you will learn:
- The `ipv6 unicast-routing` global command is mandatory for a
CCNA Exam Prep 42, Default Gateway and Routing Loop Prevention
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In this episode you will learn:
- A host uses its default gateway only when the destination IP
CCNA Exam Prep 41, VRRP and GLBP vs HSRP
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In this episode you will learn:
- The core difference between redundancy (HSRP/VRRP) and true l
CCNA Exam Prep 40, HSRP Configuration and Verification
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In this episode you will learn:
- How to configure essential HSRP commands like virtual IP, pri
CCNA Exam Prep 39, First Hop Redundancy — HSRP States and Roles
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In this episode you will learn:
- HSRP elects an Active router based on the highest priority va
CCNA Exam Prep 38, OSPF Cost Calculation and Path Selection
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In this episode you will learn:
- The OSPF cost formula is Reference Bandwidth divided by Inter
CCNA Exam Prep 37, OSPF Single-Area Configuration
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In this episode you will learn:
- How to enable the OSPF routing process using the `router ospf
CCNA Exam Prep 36, OSPF Network Types — Broadcast, Point-to-Point
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In this episode you will learn:
- The function of DR/BDR elections on OSPF broadcast networks (
CCNA Exam Prep 35, OSPF DR and BDR Election
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In this episode you will learn:
- The OSPF DR/BDR election only occurs on multi-access networks
CCNA Exam Prep 34, OSPF Neighbor Adjacency States
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In this episode you will learn:
- The seven OSPF neighbor states in order are Down, Init, 2-Way
CCNA Exam Prep 33, OSPFv2 Fundamentals — LSA Types and Areas
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In this episode you will learn:
- The function of OSPF areas, including the mandatory backbone
CCNA Exam Prep 32, Dynamic Routing Protocols Overview — IGP vs EGP
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In this episode you will learn:
- Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs) such as OSPF and EIGRP are
CCNA Exam Prep 31, Administrative Distance and Metric
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In this episode you will learn:
- Administrative Distance (AD) is the first tie-breaker, determ
CCNA Exam Prep 30, Routing Table Components — RIB and FIB
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In this episode you will learn:
- The Routing Information Base (RIB) is the router's main routi
CCNA Exam Prep 29, Static Routing — Network, Default, Host, Floating
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In this episode you will learn:
- How to configure a standard network static route using the `i
CCNA Exam Prep 28, Routing Decision — Longest Prefix Match
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In this episode you will learn:
- A router's primary rule for forwarding a packet is always the
CCNA Exam Prep 27, WLAN GUI Configuration Walkthrough
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- The step-by-step process to define an external RADIUS server
CCNA Exam Prep 26, Cisco DNA Center / Catalyst Center Overview
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In this episode you will learn:
- Cisco DNA Center (Catalyst Center) acts as a centralized cont
CCNA Exam Prep 25, WLAN Configuration — SSID, Security, QoS
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