Questions about getting ready for your Red Hat remote exam?

[Deanna]

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[Babita_Dhaila]

hi could you please guide me how will i do my exam on window 11 laptop

[Gineesh]

Hi @Babita_Dhaila
The Exam will happen inside an EXAM operating system (Fedora) and it will
not touch your existing data or OS on the laptop. Boot with the Exam ISO
(USB or CD) and then log in. That's it !

refer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmiX1x-LYF0


*Gineesh*
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[Mostafa1]

It is independent of your current OS, so the process is the same for
Windows 10, 11 ... etc.
Follow the PDF to create the Bootable ISO on a USB Flash drive, then boot
from it to access the exam ISO and hence the exam environment.

[Stegarescu]

Hi, tomorrow I have scheduled an exam and now I am trying to test my environment, the laptop booted successfully from my USB drive and the redhat environment stuck to 100%. Do you have other links to download other version of redhat's OS?

[arbhati]

It takes time after 100% boot up. After this you will be asked to login into your RH account and test the system

[Stegarescu]

@arbhati usually how much time is taking? I have waited for 10 minutes and the login box didn't appeared

[cmattern]

Issue with booting exam USB.

I've downloaded the exam USB from the link in my schedule confirmation email twice, matched the sha256sum of the isos, burned to two different USB sticks using both Image Writer and dd but I am unable to boot the image on any of 3 PCs.

I inspected the usb in my and found a valid GPT layout:

# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
GPT PMBR size mismatch (4823449 != 120963071) will be corrected by write.
The backup GPT table is not on the end of the device.
Disk /dev/sdc: 57.68 GiB, 61933092864 bytes, 120963072 sectors
Disk model: USB DISK 3.0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 05EEA806-02AF-4C16-9AD0-96DC5D1798BC

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdc1 2048 4095 2048 1M BIOS boot
/dev/sdc2 4096 106495 102400 50M EFI System
/dev/sdc3 106496 413695 307200 150M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdc4 413696 3895295 3481600 1.7G Linux filesystem

with the 4th partition being encrypted:
# cryptsetup isLuks /dev/sdc4
# echo $?
0

To validate that this is not my hardware I created a new RHEL9 USB using the same Image Writer on the same laptop and was able to install from that.

Any advice here would be greatly appreciated.

[Rilindo]

Can you describe what happens when you boot the exam image? Is it a blank screen or do you see some activity on the screen? If you do see some activity, what were the messages?

Finally, can you provide the hardware specs of the laptop/desktops you are booting the image from?

[cmattern]

Thanks for asking! I ended up talking to a really nice person in Support who was willing to look at a video of what was going wrong and help me understand that I was running into a collision with Secure Boot on my laptop which I had skimmed over in the prep documentation <SHAME> once I took care of that I was fine. 

[bball]

Once my flash drive boots, which option do I choose? Once I'm in Fedora, how do I ccess the live exam environment? Is it just going to my red hat learning subscription and logging in?