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Tech Exam Prep
Tech Exam Prep is a free, daily podcast by OpenExamPrep covering the most in-demand IT and technology certification exams — including CompTIA Security+, AWS Cloud Practitioner, CompTIA Network+, CCNA, CompTIA A+, and more. Each 5-minute episode breaks down one exam topic with concrete examples, common exam traps, and memory tricks to help you pass on your first attempt. No fluff, no filler — just the concepts you need to know, explained the way the exam tests them. This podcast is made by Ran…
Episodes
- Tech Exam Prep
CCA-F Exam Prep 45, Reliability — Idempotency, Timeouts, and Failure Modes
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
CCA-F Exam Prep 44, Evaluating Agent Quality
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
CCA-F Exam Prep 43, RAG — Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
CCA-F Exam Prep 42, Prompt Caching — Reducing Latency and Cost
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
CCA-F Exam Prep 41, The Context Window and How Claude Uses Context
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
CCA-F Exam Prep 40, Common Tool-Design Pitfalls
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
CCA-F Exam Prep 39, Auth and Security in 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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
CCNA Exam Prep 59, ACL Placement and Numbered vs Named
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
CCNA Exam Prep 58, ACL Standard vs Extended
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
CCNA Exam Prep 53, Layer 2 Security — Port Security
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
CCNA Exam Prep 52, AAA — RADIUS vs TACACS+
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…
- Tech Exam Prep
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…