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Deanna
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Questions about getting ready for your Red Hat remote exam?

This thread is dedicated to connect you with Red Hat subject matter experts who can help answer your questions regarding Red Hat remote exams. Please see the following resources for Red Hat Remote Exams below:

For questions on scheduling or redeeming your exams,  please use the Red Hat Certification team comment form here. 

**Our subject matters experts in the Red Hat Learning Community will not be assisting with tasks related to scheduling exams. 

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AnithaRaaji
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Hi,

Yes, Latest model laptop/Pc with AMD Ryzen CPU, NVIDIA RTX 30 Series has compatibility issue with Live ISO. You can try an alternate system.

 Red Hat has to cope with a few security concerns and challenges to protect its intellectual property and exam consistency. Creating a system bootable on the entire ever-expanding group of hardware is a difficult task, especially meeting the above-mentioned security and other criteria. 
The Remote Exam ISO is a spin-off from the regular Fedora WorkStation 32 base image. We get a lot of candidates who have high-end gaming systems or the latest generation Apple systems that do not work with Remote Exam LiveUSB. It is a challenge to test various hardware available in the market and to develop an ISO compatible with all of them, our developers are doing their best to make the ISO compatible with the most commonly used systems. 

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Duds
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Thanks for the reply @AnithaRaaji.

I successfully ran the exam ISO on an Dell laptop (intel CPU, nvidia MX 150 GPU) and another Ryzen Desktop (amd ryzen CPU, amd rx480 GPU). So I suppose the main problem in my case is the NVIDIA GPU of my PC. Just some info.

It would be nice to have a topic on the ebook "Red Hat remote exam" talking about hardware compatibility.

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PetrCihlar
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Hi
Ryzen CPU, NVIDIA RTX > incompatible
Are you sure this HW complies with Fedora 33 the Remote Exam live USB is based on?
Does this older Fedora version include drivers (modules) for your newer CPU, Chipset and GPU? I doubt.

 

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swapon
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Hi ,For remote RHCSA exam, after installation fedora media writer, when I select hard disk usb drive it shows secure boot violation. Thats why I could not finish the process.

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AnithaRaaji
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Hi,

You can try this old iso if you have secure boot enabled in your system.

https://static.redhat.com/downloads/training-certification/rhrexboot-2020-08.iso

You can contact RE readiness support chat at : https://red.ht/remote-exam-chat 

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cmattern
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I ran into the same issue myself.

The bootable image does not support secure boot and, for the test, you would need to disable that in the BIOS then you can re-enable it afterward. There shold be a boot screen of some type which will prompt you with a key to press to get into your BIOS, if that is not showing up I'd reccommend searching on the vendor type of the laptop for the key press combination, it is PC vendor and not CPU vendor specific.

I hope this is helpful.

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Hi there,

I have a question regarding my room set-up during the remote exam. I have a few large bookshelves with many books etc, at the opposite side of my desk (so facing my back). Will I have to remove the contents of these bookshelves for the exam? This could take me a couple of hours easily so I'm kind of hoping it's not necessary.

Thank you in advance!

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PetrCihlar
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just cover it with a blanket. It should be ok I believe. 

Petr Cihlar
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lnx
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Hi Redhat,

I bought new laptop. It is powered by Core i7 and new wifi card. But there is no LAN Port. I have checked with RHEL8.4 ISO (Exam) (Fedora 33, I guess), the network card is not detected. But I have checked with TP Link USB Wifi card, It is working. Can I use USB Wifi card for the exam ? Please confirm here

 

Thanks,

HHH.

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Hungunian
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You can use wireless to write the exams.You

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