JupyterLab in the exam environments

[Maxxranger]

Dear All

I have done laboratories and exercises with the Jupyer tool, it is honestly very effective!!! . I am preparing for am exam.

In the course RH294 is the very nice web-appliation "JupyterLab" available. Is that also in the exam environment for EX294V9?

Is it possible that Jupyter comes included in the environment to run the real exam?

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

@Maxxranger AFAIK no , because exam environment is a minimal environment.

Not sure if it is in plan to include that in future exams. 

[Maxxranger]

Dear Chetan_Tiwary_,


Why is that well nice aviable in the course environment of RH294 ?

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

@Maxxranger because course lab is not a minimal or restricted environment like exam. It is there to help you with learning. But it is not available in the exam as of now.

[Maxxranger]

When are the course environments get more like the exam environments? 

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

@Maxxranger No. they cant be the same for obvious reasons!

[Travis]

@Maxxranger -

@Chetan_Tiwary_ is correct in that there are obvious reasons an exam environment won't be the same (and can't be the same) as the classroom environment. The intent of the two environments is very different. The classroom environment is meant to provide easy learning and is fully connected to the Internet. The Jupyter notebook (Classroom Web App) is a nice-to-have as it provides students with a terminal without needing the VNC console for our online courses. The Jupyter notebook is not available in an in-person ILT course because you have the local terminals available. 

When accessing an exam environment, you are disconnected from the Internet and in a locked "kiosk" mode session. You still have the VNC console abilities, but it appears more "local" as you are in the captive Window. So you are presented with a Kiosk-style environment with a desktop that has terminal and tools and access to the other VM consoles through VNC and the exam controls. In the remote course environment, you are mostly launching the VNC console for the workstation VM or the Classroom WebApp (which is currently Jupyter, but a future iteration will be our in-house WebTerminal application). 

The newer AU294 course for Ansible/RHCE is on RHEL10 and has the newest feature set and tools. It is sitll in active development, but we've released a few lessons already. We are also integrating VSCode more into the course because of the Ansible DevTools container. If you have a learning subscription, you can try out one of our lessons ...

https://rol.redhat.com/rol/app/courses/au0018l-2.5/pages/ch01s03

This would essentiall be the first chapter in the updated course. I skipped ahead with the link so you can explore the Ansible Development Environment using VSCode and the DevTools container.