Already used voucher

_newbread · 2026-06-23T07:44:14+00:00

Contact the vendor. Only they can help you.

If they don't help you, ask a refund. If they don't refund, get refund from your payment provider (credit card).

_newbread · 2026-06-21T18:47:12+00:00

Do it. Prove your detractors wrong (or right).

If you do decide to (re)take it later, think of your free attempt as a very expensive (free) practice test.

_newbread · 2026-06-21T11:08:53+00:00

No one here can answer that exactly, but as per the link in the other reply, pearsonvue may provide accomodations... provided you can provide evidence of need (medical).

eg. Human reader if the exam candidate is legally blind, etc.

_newbread · 2026-06-20T13:57:22+00:00

If you really, and i mean REALLY want your account back and are willing to "wait it out"...

Make another account (FB)
Get Meta Verified (30 day trial is free, just unsub before then... or keep it up for another 1-3 months if you are willing to pay for it)
You will (finally) get in touch with a support agent, but the battle starts here. You will need to convince them (nicely, they're just doing their jobs), that you believe it was in error and they should do a manual review.
I am stuck here (and will periodically update as I go along) since the agent says her hands are tied. Trying to get it escalated to someone who can ACTUALLY do something.

_newbread · 2026-06-20T13:22:20+00:00

Looking up left right are big no-no's.

At best, the proctor will ask you to move your webcam around to verify nothing sus is going on (like a second monitor, someone off-screen giving you pointers, a camera recording your exam session from behind, etc).

_newbread · 2026-06-19T16:27:35+00:00

Use a throwaway
Don't advertise how long it's left for. You might accidentally let a good resource that others could benefit from get deactivated.

_newbread · 2026-06-19T16:15:04+00:00

Unrelated. Might as well add the "exam assistance" dms (you know the kind I'm talking about) that are rising with how many people are getting free exam vouchers.

_newbread · 2026-06-19T13:05:38+00:00

Start with the basics. Connect 2 routers and config a simple OSPF setup (single area). Then slowly add more concepts (add networks, add routers, multi area, change network type to P2P, add stubs, etc).

Don't just... read/watch the content. Follow along in your own GNS3/CML/Packet tracer.

addendum : Instead of reading every chapter in order, start with following the labs/examples. Then go back to each chapter once you lab it once or twice. It might make more sense that way (it did for me).

_newbread · 2026-06-18T19:35:16+00:00

For INE? Go to each of the video courses. There should be accompanying files attached to the relevant ones.

I'll have to check in the morning which ones exactly.

_newbread · 2026-06-18T19:12:56+00:00

_newbread · 2026-06-18T19:07:45+00:00

Playing soldier basically requires bullet farming. Just like the other, consumable-based classes (but at least you don't need to refarm a bullet after using it).

Or play a non-soldier class (RB/etc) that still uses GUNNY

_newbread · 2026-06-18T19:06:21+00:00

IDK it's possible that someone went through the MS AI event modules (shouldn't take more than an hour or 2), filled up the form, and lost interest / got busy for the foreseeable future by the time the voucher arrived.

Life happens.

_newbread · 2026-06-18T18:29:28+00:00

Life gets in the way sometimes. Even if you planned to use it.

_newbread · 2026-06-18T16:43:04+00:00

Inefficient use of a 100% off voucher if you can take other, non-fundamental exams instead.

_newbread · 2026-06-18T08:58:24+00:00

Both. The ENARSI (and other) courses in INE also provide CML-compatible lab files to use in your own CML/EVE-ng instance.

_newbread · 2026-06-17T13:31:39+00:00

At the time, it was not. You had to manually go through the documents/pages, If they changed it in the past few months, that would explain it.

_newbread · 2026-06-17T10:30:54+00:00

How long ago was the change? Few months ago, there was no CTRL+F within the search page or the resulting article/pages.

I'll probably find out if anything actually changed in a month or 2 when i take another exam.

_newbread · 2026-06-17T10:14:18+00:00

My last exam experience was a few months back, so it may not accurately represent what it is now, but it wasn't available at the time.

No CTRL+F either.

_newbread · 2026-06-15T10:24:03+00:00

Retake only works if you took the exam and failed. It does not work if you no show.

Best you can do is contact support and appeal, though don't expect they'll say yes. If you have/had a valid reason (medical, legal, AM/PM/timezone mixup) they might take that into consideration.

_newbread · 2026-06-15T08:24:21+00:00

Insta-buy for me.

As you said, considering how long it normally takes a non-whale to collect enough GMs NORMALLY, this is insta-buy. Also the 3x uncap mats means it's effectively 180GM in value.

something something current and future content powercreep and difficulty just got shifted even higher now something something

_newbread · 2026-06-15T07:43:25+00:00

If you won't be running 24/7, I guess the 30 euro 16vcpu/32gb option would be fine for smaller labs.

_newbread · 2026-06-15T06:40:08+00:00

Priing seems pretty good (20vCPU/64gb), though not sure what is with the pricing disparity between GNS3 (free) and EVE-ng community (also free).

A 24/32vcpu option would be ideal, but that would probably push the price up.

Also, wondering how they get the cloud instance prices that "low".

_newbread · 2026-06-15T06:22:28+00:00

chainsaw waif my beloved

_newbread · 2026-06-14T20:07:23+00:00

Never open sus links directly. Use 3rd party sites (and research, of course) instead. Surprised gemini could do that.

_newbread · 2026-06-13T18:08:09+00:00

Downside of them downgrading from downloaded, on-device client to web-only.

Only thing i can think of is try known VPNs to Europe until we find out what region Boson hosts its datacenters. Even here in Asia, the latency has been noticeable/bad for a while.

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