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Certified: The CompTIA PenTest+ (Plus) Audio Course

by Jason Edwards

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Latest episodes

Episode 12 — Communication During Testing

January 6, 2026 · 16 min

This episode builds the communication habits that keep an engagement safe, efficient, and credible, especially when findings affect availability or require rapid stakeholder decisions. You’ll learn how to tailor updates for different…
Episode 11 — Ethics and Mandatory Reporting

January 6, 2026 · 18 min

This episode prepares you to handle high-stakes situations ethically and professionally when you encounter sensitive data, signs of active compromise, or illegal content during authorized work. You’ll learn how ethical principles translate…
Episode 10 — Engagement Types and Constraints

January 6, 2026 · 17 min

This episode explains how different engagement types shape goals, methods, risks, and constraints, helping you choose correct actions when scenarios shift across network, web, API, wireless, cloud, mobile, physical, and social contexts…
Episode 9 — Legal Docs You Must Recognize

January 6, 2026 · 17 min

This episode teaches you to recognize the core engagement documents and understand what authority and responsibilities each one establishes, because exam scenarios often test whether you know what enables action and what restricts it…
Episode 8 — ROE Deep Dive

January 6, 2026 · 16 min

This episode focuses on rules of engagement as the operational playbook that turns a broad scope into specific allowed actions, timing, and escalation procedures. You’ll learn how ROE defines permitted and prohibited techniques, testing…

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Episode 7 — Scoping the Engagement

January 6, 2026 · 16 min

This episode teaches you how to interpret and apply engagement scope so you can choose defensible actions that remain authorized and aligned to objectives. You’ll break down scope elements such as target ranges, domains, applications, user…
Episode 6 — Your Daily Listening Study Loop

January 5, 2026 · 13 min

This episode gives you a practical daily listening routine that turns short, consistent sessions into real retention and exam readiness without requiring labs or long study blocks. You’ll learn how to set a single focus goal for each…
Episode 5 — Risk Language: Severity vs Impact vs Likelihood

January 5, 2026 · 18 min

This episode teaches you to talk about risk the way security leaders and exam questions expect, by separating technical severity from business impact and likelihood. You’ll define each term in plain language, then learn how they interact…
Episode 4 — Scope, ROE, and Staying Legal

January 5, 2026 · 16 min

This episode focuses on boundaries and authorization, because many missed questions come from selecting an action that would be effective but not permitted. You’ll learn how to interpret scope statements, target lists, exclusions, testing…
Episode 3 — Tool Purpose Map (No Commands)

January 5, 2026 · 17 min

This episode gives you a tool-purpose map that helps you answer tool-related questions without memorizing syntax or command flags. You’ll learn to group tools by outcomes, such as discovery, enumeration, validation, exploitation support…
Episode 2 — The PenTest Workflow as a Timeline

January 5, 2026 · 16 min

This episode builds a mental timeline for penetration testing so every action fits the right phase and you stop losing points to phase confusion. You’ll walk through the engagement from authorization and rules through reconnaissance…
Episode 1 — How PenTest+ Questions Work

January 5, 2026 · 16 min

This episode trains you to read scenario-based questions like a tester, not like a trivia quiz. You’ll learn how to identify the decision being asked for, such as best next step, most effective control, primary risk, or strongest…

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About the show

This PrepCast series is a comprehensive, audio-first preparation program designed to help learners build the judgment, terminology fluency, and decision-making skills required for modern penetration testing scenarios. Rather than focusing on tools, commands, or hands-on labs, the series emphasizes how to think like a tester under real-world constraints: interpreting scope and rules of engagement, selecting safe and defensible next steps, validating findings responsibly, and communicating risk in clear business-aligned language. Each episode is structured to reinforce engagement flow, from planning and reconnaissance through exploitation decisions, post-exploitation considerations, and professional reporting. Across the full sequence, listeners develop a repeatable mental framework for analyzing technical situations, prioritizing actions, avoiding common traps, and translating observations into meaningful outcomes. The series mirrors how security work is evaluated in practice, where correctness depends not only on technical knowledge, but also on ethics, authorization, safety, and impact. By the end of the program, learners are equipped to recognize patterns quickly, justify decisions confidently, and apply consistent reasoning that transfers directly to both certification scenarios and real penetration testing engagements.