Questions about getting ready for your Red Hat remote exam?

[Deanna]

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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. 

[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?

[JustinR]

Maybe borrow one from a friend?  Or Amazon sells refurbished MacBooks and other laptop brands "relatively" inexpensively ($200-300 USD) depending on what country you are from.

[Antonio70]

I booked the ex294 (remote) exam for tomorrow. I wanted to know if it is possible to use the graphical mode of the environment or if the exam is entirely in CLI mode.

[PetrCihlar]

I guess it is up to you how you complete the task using the given possibilities. Dont expect here to find out more exam content-related information

[RedhatChris72]

How can I increase the font size in the terminal during exam it is too small for people with not so good vision. How can we get this resolved?

[Sanju7]

@RedhatChris72 You can try using Ctrl ++ and check.

Alternatively, you can try setting the zoom option to 200% on the settings page iunder accessibility once you boot from live USB and see if it makes things better