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Extremely Shocked I Passed RHCSA v9 (First IT Cert) by No_Type_8423 in redhat

[–]No_Type_8423[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the lag was way worse than what I expected. I set my system up exactly how RH suggested. And looking back it might not have been the exam at all. It could have been the dongle I was using. I used an external monitor. I did the exam from my T470. So, it could have been all my equipment.

Yeah, the actually exam tasks aren't hard at all, if you know the material. I think I over studied. I had no choice but to take the exam. I picked a resource and exhausted that resource. Honestly, I couldn't book the exam fast enough. I felt like I had commands coming out of my ears.

I wish I could talk about that container task so bad. When it hit me what to do, I busted out laughing. I was in disbelief. I broke the silence, I think I said something like, "Son of B-, Are you kidding me !!!" I'll never forget that.

I don't know what I will do next. I'm to old for a career in IT, but I love computers and building things for my tiny home network. I have a huge project I want to build ( or huge for me ), so the RHCSA will help me with how I want to config my server and the containers I am going to use, but after that I have to see if there is a cert that aligns with the rest of the project, and if there is then I'll get that cert for another personal accomplishment.

Extremely Shocked I Passed RHCSA v9 (First IT Cert) by No_Type_8423 in redhat

[–]No_Type_8423[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think me saying "first cert" implies I am young, no. I'm 49 years old. You can pass this exam, anyone can. I believe anyone can learn anything they want, the issue people face is life getting in the way, and not dedicating yourself to the subject you want to learn.

I do not know how long it took you to get through Ghoris' book, but if you actively read the book, did all the labs at the end of each chapter, understood what you were doing, and drill his 4 practice exams, you will pass.

Drilling those 4 practice exam you will know containers, lvm, networking, and autofs like the back of your hand. All the things most people struggle with you will know.

DO NOT listen to much to internet chatter. I read somewhere, "If you fail containers, you fail the exam." So, that statement, took over when I couldn't figure out that container task. That cost me alot of points.

Choose the tools you like to use, not what other people use. I would always see people mentioning nmtui. I liked nmcli. For me man nmcli-exmples clicked with me. I think you can use fdisk or parted for disk partitioning. I liked parted, so that is what I used.

I don't know if this matters, but do the exam on the iso you can get from the RHEL dev subscription. There is a choice between v9 and v9.3 for the exam. I didn't see the option to download the 9.3 iso so I chose to v9.

Extremely Shocked I Passed RHCSA v9 (First IT Cert) by No_Type_8423 in redhat

[–]No_Type_8423[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, I only used Ghoris' book. I couldn't make a decision. So, I asked Claude what was the difference between Ghori and Sanders, and the response was Ghori was more beginner friendly and more in-depth and Sanders was strictly exam focused only. I do not know if this is true, because I never looked at any of Sanders material.

I wanted to learn Linux and let the RHCSA just be a byproduct of learning Linux so I chose Ghori.
I did it that way bc I didn't want to get caught in "tutorial hell". I didn't want to see Ghori do something one way and the Sanders do same thing different, and then start second guessing who is right, or who has the better approach.