posted on July 06, 2024, last updated on Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 10:51 AM

Prepared the exam for nearly 2 months with intermittent learning and practice. The difficulty is moderate for me and the good thing is that we are able to browse MS learn during the exam. It helped me a lot to double-check details like configuration steps, role permissions which quite relieved me, since I thought it is not an open-book exam. Guidelines can be found here: Accessing Microsoft Learn during your certification exam

Another thing is that I chose the OnVUE online exam, and the experience was not satisfactory. Although I am the first in queue when I started the exam and the exam went well, the exam window went frozen when I was about to submit. The proctor restarted my session (luckily I was able to chat with them… Only the exam window froze, not the pop-up toolbar) but I wasn’t able to click on any until I had restarted my laptop (M1 MacBook) and redo all check-in process to submit my exam. Luckily again, the data wasn’t lost. I think I will take the exam at a local test centre next time. :(

Happy weekend! Will pursue AZ-500 in the next few weeks.