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[Hayk]

Did support check your exam and found issues in your solutions? If they declare so, then you should take it into account and move forward. If manual checking of your exam showed issues, you have to write down the questions for you, write your solutions, go through the course and student guide again, do labs again, and try to find what could be the cause of low grade. That's the only way to pass the exam next time. Good luck!

[mbehadir]

Hi actually this is what I am looking for. I think they did not yet. The thing is I went over all the questions after exam and I could not find any issue. In Friday I will have a call with Tony Dubiel from RedHat to see something is wrong in my playbooks. Also thanks to him, he suggested me to use the RedHat forum. The thing he mentioned me is he passed the exam before the updated one. Also anyone who passed the exam in the latest version I will be happy to discuss if I am wrong in somewhere. Or there is an issue with exam side.

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

In no circumstances anyone should discuss / disclose exam related questions / tasks with anyone because of the Non Disclosure Agreement ( NDA ) that we all signed before taking an exam 

Nobody from Red Hat or anywhere else is authorized to discuss any exam related tasks / questions with anyone. 

Exam tasks are not only about working playbooks or working configurations - it is also about fulfilling the entire objective of a question - you might get some marks for fulfilling some criteria or you can get 0 if you missed the most crucial part of your configurations.

If an exam question is unclear or ambiguous, use the provided "submit feedback" button to report the issue during exam. Your input helps improve future exams.
For any exam score  grading related query, the only option to raise that is : https://rhtapps.redhat.com/comments 

[mbehadir]

Hi,

My aim of discussion is not for just exam specific questions. The thing that I am trying to mention is I think I did all the requirements and I can not find any other way how to do it and what is the missing part. In these circumstences how anyone can prepare and pass the exam. I think that is why RedHat gives you a retake option when you subscribe an exam. I did not mention any questions to anyone. So I dont know what should I do. I will update the forum with TAC result for sure.

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

>>>Do you know anything about this can be happened because of a test center problem or exam test automation has some issues.>>>

No. It is neither a problem of test center nor the exam automation test / grading. 

>>> When I asked which playbooks that you can see in the gitlab they did not answering me because of some reason. >>>

Discussions on specific exam items and what you did is out of bound. It is not allowed.

>>>Is there anything like the reviewers can check the exam video records or something else >>>

Yes, reviewers can check it if required but it cannot be shared with anyone.

>>>I have nearly similar playbooks with me if any expert from RedHat can discuss me about where I am wrong I will be appreciate.>>>

That discussion is neither feasible nor allowed. 

Working playbooks does not necessarily mean you meet the objective of the exam tasks. There might be some significant step / configuration missed in this objective which resulted in the reported marks ( which obviously cannot be revelaed - it defeats the purpose of exam and is disadvantageous to other candidates ).

[javierenriqueco]

Hello, in the exam, is copy and paste allowed from the console? I say this to save time with some things that are repetitive, in the rhce it was completely blocked, I had to write and repeat everything manually, on the other hand to access the HUB and to the CONTROLLER, one connects through the GUI of a machine or how it will be

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

copy paste should not be an issue, I think the latest ISO allows it for EX457 ( if you are talking about it ). Also read the exam instructions for your second question - it contains all the relevant information you need to access VMs. 

In any case you can always reach out to exam support for any help / guidance / official response in these matters : https://rhtapps.redhat.com/comments 

Please note that "Exam support link" ( https://rhtapps.redhat.com/comments ) is the official channel for raising support case and taking guidance/ help for anything related to exam. All other comments and suggestions are provisional.

[Amaya]

Anyone being able to save playbooks in directories other than {{ playbook_dir }} and its subdirectories?

Trying to save a backup for ios in this manner:

    - name: Capturar la configuracion y hacer backup para routers Cisco
      cisco.ios.ios_config:
        backup: yes
        backup_options:
          dir_path: "{{ backup_path }}" 
          filename: "{{ inventory_hostname }}.txt"
      when: ansible_network_os == 'cisco.ios.ios'

Does not work if I want backup_path to be other than playbook_dir or a subdirectory, even if I try something like:

    - name: Crear el directorio de backup si no existe
      ansible.builtin.file:
        path: "{{ backup_path }}"
        state: directory
        mode: '0755'
      delegate_to: localhost

as it does not seem to be able to escape the directory encapsulation by the container.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Travis]

@Amaya -

I had to re-read your question multiple times ... the key is escape the directory encapsulation by the container. This tells me you are using an execution environment. So the way things work with execution environments is that the current working directory is mounted into the running container ... so nothing outside the current working directory is available in the container. Since you have this as your task

    - name: Crear el directorio de backup si no existe
      ansible.builtin.file:
        path: "{{ backup_path }}"
        state: directory
        mode: '0755'
      delegate_to: localhost

The directory is being created inside the container because localhost isn't the machine running the container, but the container itself. So when the execution environment is done running the playbook, it quites, the container exits, and all data in the running container (including the directory) gets deleted.

When I taught some of the advanced Ansible courses, I showed how to do "extra mounts" to mount a host filesystem into a container or also showed how to use Fetch Files or Delegation to get files on the system I wanted. 

https://github.com/tmichett/do374/tree/main/Demos/Misc

Unfortunately older playbooks that delegate to localhost isn't the machine you are running on anymore byt instead is inside the container (execution environment).

So just like containers can mount other directories as volume mounts, you can do similar things with execution environments.

[Amaya]

Hi Travis,

thanks for your help.

Yes, I understand the directory is trying to mount inside the container, but there are 2 things happening:

1. File creation, sometimes it works, with delegate_to, however this time it keeps trying to mount inside the container and I don't know how to solve this. On your demos I don't see any different, delegate_to should solve this.

2. I've tried the playbook without the file creation task, only backup one, and that works only withiin playbook_dir and its subdirectories, not if I point somewhere else, say $HOME for instance. This I can not understand.

Many thanks in advance,

Amaya