2024-12-08 08:51:00
Well, that didn't go as planned. :)
This morning I was supposed to take both LPIC 101-500v and LPIC 102-500v: the two exams that make up the combined LPIC-1 exam. I'm teaching an LPIC-1 class very soon and I thought it'd be a good idea if I'd actually done the exam at least once.
Anyway. First big, important tip:
My drivers' license still has my "original" name, which most of you will know isn't Tess. I thought I'd get around the dysphoria of having my old name on my diplomas by telling PearsonVue my first name is my initial: T. Those match what's on the license, right? Because the license has both my first and middle name. Nope, rejected. Your name needs to match, exactly.
The PearsonVue team, both the exam proctor and the chat support, were excellent. The proctor was polite and really wanted to help me take the test, by suggesting I might have another ID that does have me as "T.". Unfortunately I don't. So, they flagged my exam for rescheduling; nothing lost except for a little time.
The chat support employee was swift to respond and friendly. They made a support case for me and indicated that, unfortunately, the name change would take a few days. So they made sure both my exams could be rescheduled without problems.
Now, other tips.
OnVue on Windows will complain about processes like vmwp. VMWP is a virtual machine worker process, which is part of Hyper-V. In the Services app, shutdown/stop all services whose name starts with "Hyper-V", except for "Hyper-V host computer service".
If OnVue continues complaining about vmwp: start a Powershell with administrator rights and run: wsl --shutdown. Even when Hyper-V itself is dead, Windows might be running the WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux) VM in the background.
If OnVue still continues to complain about vmwp: start a Powershell with administrator rights and run: Stop-Process -name vmwp. Agree to stop/kill all VMWP processes.
OnVue will also complain about components of VMWare. You will find these in the Services app again; stop everything with VMWare in its name.
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Posted by Tess
Well, again, that didn't go as planned.
PearsonVue are now asking me to email me a copy of my passport, to verify my legal name. That's certainly not something I'm liking the idea of.
It's especially interesting that they're asking me for this, because when I first registered my profile/account they certainly didn't ask for a passport copy.
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2024-12-08 09:41:00
Posted by Tess
Oddly, I don't remember my initials -vs- first name being a problem when I took the LPI Linux Essentials (010-160) exam.
They took my check-in and didn't even phone me, I believe. PearsonVue did the check-in and immediately let me start the exam. Interesting that this time around the proctor did make a point of this.