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Hello everyone,

Has anyone who recently passed the Red Hat EX294 exam confirmed whether the following commands work in the actual exam environment?

ansible-config init --disabled > ansible.cfg
ansible-navigator settings --sample > ansible-navigator.yml

I am asking because they can help generate sample configuration files instead of memorizing every variable name, such as remote_user, inventory settings, execution environment settings, and other Ansible configuration options.

I am not asking for any exam questions or confidential exam content. I only want to confirm whether these commands are available and usable in the exam environment.

Can anyone please confirm this from recent experience?

I am preparing for the RHCE EX294 exam. I completed a course that covered most of the exam objectives, and I am prepared for around 90% of the required topics.

However, one topic that was not covered in detail is ansible-navigator. It's challenging because it requires understanding related concepts such as Podman, execution environments, Red Hat subscription repositories, pool IDs, and enabling the correct repository. We're doing all of this mainly to run Ansible playbooks.

My question is:

In the RHCE EX294 exam, is it acceptable to run playbooks using ansible-playbook**, or are candidates expected to use** ansible-navigator**?**

Because if you want to run a simple playbook like simple.yml. You need to run
ansible-navigator run -m stdout --pae false simple.yml
whereas in ansible playbook
ansible-playbook simple.yml

Then what is the usage of here for a deep understanding of Ansible-Navigator? When you can simply do the same task with ansible-playbook

I would appreciate guidance from anyone who has prepared for or taken the exam recently.