I scored much less that I expected on my first EX294 exam attempt and as I prepare for a retake, I'm starting to wonder that perhaps maybe the grading playbook had something to do with it.
To try to explain, while giving away as little info about the exam content as possible, let me mention few possible conflicting situations. For instance, I added vault_password_file attribute in the ansible.cfg, as I would normaly do in my work. But if there is another vault that requires another password, would that confuse the grading system, which I asume is again ansible and could parse my ansible.cfg? Another situation, I salted the user passwords, again as I usually do. But if grading script just compares the password hashes, it's going to conclude that my password is wrong, although it's actually correct.
Exam instructions stated that we are allowed to make reasonable changes to the ansible configuration, but leaves us guessing what is actually reasonable. Is there some chance that we could get some feedback from someone who is familiar with the exam grading? Is the best strategy on the exam to do only exactly what is stated in the task and try not to touch configuration if possible? Or is the grading very robust and prepared for all sorts of situations, so I have nothing to worry about?
