IT Certification Exam Prep — Every Exam Prep
by Vincent Ruan
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Microsoft PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst: 100 Minutes, 700 to Pass, $165
Microsoft PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst: 100 Minutes, 700 to Pass, $165
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Short, practical episodes for anyone studying for an IT certification: CompTIA A+, Network+ and Security+, Cisco CCNA, AWS, Microsoft Azure, ISC2 and ISACA, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Terraform. Every figure — question counts, pass marks, fees, renewal rules — comes from the vendor's own exam guide. Free practice tests, study guides and cheat sheets for every exam at everyexamprep.com.
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- Microsoft PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst: 100 Minutes, 700 to Pass, $165 · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 21Microsoft's PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst Associate exam from Microsoft Learn: 100 minutes, a 700 pass mark on a scale of 1 to 1,000, the $165 US list price, the four skills…
- PMP Exam: 180 Questions, 240 Minutes, $675 for Non-Members, 3 Domains · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 20PMI's PMP exam from its content outline and certification page: 180 questions with 170 scored and 10 pretest, 240 minutes, the $675 non-member fee, People 33%, Process 41% and…
- CompTIA CySA+ CS0-004: Up to 85 Questions, 750 to Pass, and the Version 4 Domain Weights · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 19CompTIA CySA+ exam code CS0-004 from CompTIA's published details: a maximum of 85 questions in 165 minutes, a 750 pass mark on a scale of 100 to 900, the four domains led by…
- Troubleshooting and Optimization, and a Study Plan for the Claude Certified Associate Exam · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 18The final domain on the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam and a study plan for all seven: diagnosing an output that is wrong, incomplete, inconsistent or off-target…
- Configuration and Knowledge Management: The 12 Percent Domain · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 17The configuration domain on the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam: setting up a Claude Project with instructions and knowledge, deciding what belongs in the standing…
- Product and Model Selection: The 12 Percent Domain · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 16The selection domain on the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam: choosing between Claude's model tiers on capability, speed and cost for a task, knowing when a…
- Prompting and Task Execution: The 14 Percent Domain · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 15The prompting domain on the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam: what a complete request contains, giving context and the role of the audience, examples and the format…
- Governance, Risk and Responsible Use: The 15 Percent Domain · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 14The responsible-use domain on the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam: handling confidential and personal data, respecting your organization's policies and the terms of…
- Workflow Integration and Solution Design: The 16 Percent Domain · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 13The second-largest domain on the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam: deciding where Claude belongs in a work process and where it does not, breaking a task into steps…
- Output Evaluation and Validation: The 21 Percent Domain · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 12The largest domain on the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam: how to judge whether Claude's output is accurate, complete, consistent with the source material and fit…
- Claude Certified Associate – Foundations: 60 Items, 120 Minutes, 720 to Pass · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 11Anthropic's Claude Certified Associate – Foundations certification, exam code CCAO-F, from the published exam guide: 60 multiple-choice and multiple-response items in 120…
- Google Cloud, CKA and Terraform: The Exams With Tasks Instead of Questions · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 10Google's Associate Cloud Engineer and Cloud Digital Leader from their exam guides, the Certified Kubernetes Administrator's performance-based 15-to-20-task format with a 66% pass…
- ISC2 CC to CISSP, CISM and CISA: The Security Management Ladder · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 9Four security credentials by their published rules: the ISC2 CC with no experience requirement and a $199 fee, the CISSP's five-year experience rule and $749 adaptive exam…
- Microsoft AZ-900, AI-901 and AZ-104: 700 to Pass, Free Annual Renewal · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 8Microsoft's Azure ladder from the official study guides: the 45-minute AZ-900 and its three weighted areas, the AI-901 that replaced AI-900 with two skill areas built on…
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Developer Associate: 720 to Pass in 130 Minutes · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 7The two most-taken AWS associate exams from their guides: 65 questions with 15 unscored, 130 minutes, a 720 scaled pass mark, 150 USD, the Well-Architected domain weights for…
- AWS Cloud Practitioner and AI Practitioner: 65 Questions, 50 Scored, 700 to Pass · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 6The two AWS foundational exams from the official exam guides: 65 questions of which 15 are unscored, 90 minutes, a 700 scaled pass mark, a 100 USD fee, the domain weights, no…
- Cisco CCNA 200-301 and CCST Networking: The Cisco Track · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 5The CCNA from Cisco's exam topics: 120 minutes, a $300 single-attempt fee through Pearson VUE, six domains led by IP Connectivity at 25%, three-year validity and the OnVUE…
- Network+ N10-009: Troubleshooting Is the Biggest Domain · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 4CompTIA Network+ from the objectives: the 720 pass mark on a 100–900 scale, the June 2024 launch, five domains led by network troubleshooting at 24%, the A+ plus 9-to-12-months…
- Security+ SY0-701: The 750 Pass Mark, Five Domains, and the Pass Rate CompTIA Won't Publish · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 3CompTIA Security+ from the official objectives: 90 questions in 90 minutes, 750 on a 100–900 scale, domain weights led by Security Operations at 28%, the Network+ and two-year…
- CompTIA A+: Two Exams, Nine Domains, Two Different Pass Marks · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 2Core 1 and Core 2 explained from CompTIA's own objectives: the 675 and 700 pass marks on a 900 scale, the domain weights that put troubleshooting first, the 90-question…
