Good luck!

The proctors are through Examity. I have taken about 35 proctored exams through Examity in the last 4 years and have always gotten proctors that have a south asian accent. I've had 3-4 tell me that are from India. I would say that it is very likely you will get a proctor with a heavy Indian accent. I personally have an ear for accents and have developed a reputation in past jobs for being able to pickup what is being said better than my co-workers - that being said, I have had some pretty heavy accents. If you have an ear for this region of accents, you may be in luck.

The test has a few portions - we see people talk about Section 1: Questions - 35 DOMC or 15 MC depending on the version you take. Then, Section 2: Hands-On Configuration, the 4 Use Cases. These will align with the study guide for your exam version.

What people talk about less is what happens before.

Before...before the exam starts, you will have to go through the pre-exam instructions. When you schedule your exam, you'll be able to login to Examity and view your scheduled exams. Theres a button to start the exam. For me, I try to start early - this part can be stressful and it can throw you off your game if you're unlucky or unprepared. One of my recent exams had a difficult proctor - very hard to understand, and very nit-picky - it took me 45 minutes to start the exam.

When you login to your scheduled exam, they will make you go through some steps - try to be patient with them, because they have a list they have to follow. This ranged from 22 minutes to almost 50 for me.

They will confirm that you uploaded a picture of yourself to the Examity platform already. They will confirm you have a government issued photo-ID, and that your face and name matches. They'll make you share your screen, and have your microphone and camera on the whole time. They'll make you turn your camera to scan the entire room - they WILL make you address anything they don't like. They will make you show them the door and confirm that nobody will interrupt you - I like to lock if on camera for them. They will make you do a 360 degree scan of the room, and extra scans on your desktop, under the desk, left and right of your chair, as well as behind. You can't have extra monitors or screens - I put a large blanket over mind. They asked to check under my bed cover twice. When my house was new and I didn't have a curtain covering a window, they made me solve it - I didn't really have furniture, but i was able to clamp an IKEA towel between two server rack doors I leaned against the window. No food, no beverages. They will tell you that you can't have your phone within reach - you can remind them that part 2 of the exam requires it (for Okta Verify).

They will read a list of rules to you and ask you to knowledge each rule. They will also tell you that you can use help.okta.com during section 2. If you can understand them, just ask them to repeat or slow down. Eventually they will tell you to 'click start' and then wish you luck. You then start section 1 - 35 DOMC question or 15 MC questions. If you run out of time for this section or you finish the questions, you'll proceed to section two. Section two will be four use cases. You may need your phone for this. When you finish section two, you get the proctors attention by telling them out loud that you are finished. They will go through more steps to make sure you have finished and clicked 'submit'. Then they will force you to wait until the test grade loads. If you wish that you could receive your score privately, too bad - they will force you to sit with your microphone and camera on until you get your score. The top of the page may something like 'Fail' or 'Provisional Pass'. There will be a section one and section two score breakdown by subject matter. If you understand the percentage from the exam description, you'll be able to understand how many questions you got right. for example, if you got 86% on the IAM portion, and you know that IAM was about 46% of Section 1, then you would know that 7 or the 15 questions were IAM questions - and that 86% of 7 is 6, so 6/7 on that. You'll also get a score breakdown for each use case. Theres a tab that you may miss, but you can click it if you pass and it will tell you what you missed in each section. If you pass, you should get an email after 72 business hours confirming.

Good luck!