I had RHCE test a month and a half ago, I ran out of time and the VMs got shut down automatically at the end of the exam, yet I got a 206 out of 300; the passing score was 210, so I didn't pass, but I was OK, because I didn't even have a chance to test anything, so, even if they gave me a 0, I would have thought that well, the systems couldn't even cleanly boot up. I was sure the next time I am going to make it. Yesterday I had my 2nd shot at RHCE, I did everything perfectly well, I got plenty of extra time, I rebooted my virtual machines and tested everything; all services were up and running and were perfectly visible as they were asked to; I had fixed my previous errors and after rebooting twice and making sure everything works, I gracefully shutdown the virtual machines and left the exam. To my astonishment, this time I got a score of 121! Almost half of my previous time! I opened a ticket with Redhat, but they are saying they checked and the results are accurate! I'm like, WTF?! I did check, everything was working as asked; I can't fathom what happened. I begged them in my previous email to run their damn scoring script on my VMs again, making sure the first VM (the one acting as server) boots first before they start the 2nd VM. It's the only thing that comes to my mind, that they started the client first and none of the filesystems/services were available on the first VM, thus they didn't load.
I am just utterly shocked. I am ready to pay the full price for someone in Redhat to show me which part I screwed up, coz I didn't! It's really unfair that you can't get the details, really unfair. I checked everything after reboot; the only option left is that there is something seriously wrong with my head!
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