Questions about getting ready for your Red Hat remote exam?

[Deanna]

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• Remote Exams FAQ

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[harutan]

Question about remote exams

I downloaded LIVEUSB to a USB memory stick to take a remote exam. However, after downloading, I cannot see the USB drive from the Explorer screen and cannot start the boot system. I have confirmed that the USB memory stick is recognized. I want to know the solution.

[PetrCihlar]

All is as it should be. You cannot see the partition on the USB stick because it is encrypted. Your operating system cannot read encrypted partitions. But it will boot. It will decrypt itself on the fly, that is why booting takes that long. Just make sure to have Secure boot disabled in BIOS, or else the computer refuses the Exam USB stick as a bootable device (Exam USB boot loader is not compliant with Secure Boot). Remember to set everything back to boot your original OS after the exam again. If you use Bitlocker, you may get a recovery screen warning. Don't get surprised. 

[Thyea]

Hello, 

I'm on scheduling to take RCHSA exam on 3rd Jan, and currently it's 1st Jan. Am I able to use the USB liveboot to compatiblity test ?, your answers are appreciated.

Best Regards, 

Vithyea

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

@Thyea yes you can prepare the live USB and perform the compatibility test.

[Thyea]

Appreciated your answer, now I am able to do the compatibility test. Thank you so much and have a great day

[Sanju7]

@Thyea You can download the exam image (ISO) and create the live USB anytime (even before scheduling the exam) and test your hardware setup for compatibility with the ISO. You can use the same live USB again on the day of the exam and boot from it and access your exam.

Also, the same live USB can be used anytime in the future to take up any Red Hat certification exams as long as there are no upgraded version of ISO is released. We just need to make sure we have the latest version of ISO available with us always.

For more information, current version of ISO is 202306 and you can download it from below link - https://red.ht/rhrex

[Thyea]

Appreciated your answer, I just had few issue related to boot the environment, but currently I found an issue that my laptop is enabled to secure boot that's why it cannot boot up the exam environment, anyway thank you so much and have a great day

[nodecafe]

Is the remote testing environment still Gnome3 based? It's been a few years ago and it used to be and was "quite" clunky. I see discussions suggesting it is now Fedora based, does that mean Gnome 4?

[PetrCihlar]

I think the exam environment you boot from the USB boots Fedora 37, auto-logs-in and starts Firefox in which the whole exam runs. All it uses webRTC and VNC. The Gnome does not matter, it stays in the bacground.

[TarekA]

Hello, how can I get a Federo laptop since my MacBook Apple M1 chip is incompatible with the exam?