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 for network devices where agents cannot be installed. - Puppet and Chef are primarily agent-based and use a pull model, where nodes check in with a master server for configuration. - The CCNA exam tests your ability to select the correct tool based on scenario requirements, primarily agent-based versus agentless. - Key terminology to match: Ansible uses YAML Playbooks, Puppet uses Manifests, and Chef uses Recipes and Cookbooks. - Idempotence is a core concept ensuring operations result in the same system state, preventing unintended changes on subsequent runs. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep