Booked AZ-400 and GH-300 Next Friday!

justyy (84)in #blog • 7 hours ago

Booked AZ-400 and GH-300 Next Friday!

AZ-400 and GH-300 are my next targets, and I have less than a week to crack them both.

Driving to the test center takes me about 50 minutes, which is not ideal, but my recent online exam experiences have not been smooth either. I have taken three exams online, and during the last one I spent around 30 minutes just trying to get the exam environment ready. At one point, I was genuinely worried that I might miss the exam because of the technical setup. Fortunately, I managed to launch the exam software right on time, about one or two minutes after the scheduled start, even though I had checked in 30 minutes early. I did a last minute reboot, which might help in this case.

What made me nervous was not the exam content itself, but the setup process. The online exam environment is extremely strict, and your laptop has to be perfectly prepared. The system kept complaining that vmwp.exe was blocking the launch. I killed it several times from Task Manager, but it kept coming back.

In that sense, taking exams at a test center is actually easier. You just show up and focus on the exam, instead of stressing over technical issues and whether your machine will cooperate.