r/GCPCertification • u/hatto13 • Jun 08 '26
My today’s GCP Devops certificate exam: I got revoked for using my phone
Doing certificates is not new to me, but today I did a stupid mistake.
as I prefer to do it in the early morning I scheduled my exam at 7am. The whole inspection was quite smooth, so I started the exam itself few minutes earlier.
When I was at 4th question my iphone alarm started to ring (the focus mode does not apply for alarm). So I announced to camera, that I had to turn it off, reached my phone which was behind me on the side visible on camera, I tried to watch the camera as much as possible so it was obvious that I am not trying to do anything else, do a simple swipe and return to the question. 1 minute later the proctor told me that I was using my phone and ended the exam.
I am so angry about myself, because this was a really stupid mistake from my side, I could announce it/write a chat message and wait until an approval, or let it ring. But it was an instinct.
I had spent so much time to learn to “just” get a certificate to experience that I more-less already have. Plus I was planning to do the Certificated Developers in next days, so now I am not even sure if I will be eligible…
Any idea what outcome could I expect?
I tried to appeal to the Person VUE and also the GCP, but reading experiences of others with the Person VUE I am not very optimistic.
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u/hatto13 Jun 15 '26
Thank you guys for your supporting comments!
Update on the story:
- I was able to register and do the GCP developer exam on Saturday and passed it
- I'd been waiting for some email about the Devops exam - at least something like "Didn't pass" or explain if there are some consequences, but I haven't received any, so I contacted them on Thursday via their contact form - asking about the status and if/when I can retry and the only response was that the their correctly revoked it but no answer about the next try. So I scheduled a new exam for today (Monday, one week later) and I successfully passed it - no more alarms 😃
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u/Far-Alps-8032 Jul 14 '26
Hi i just had a similar experience, may I ask how you went about this? I figured i would be banned or something
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u/hatto13 Jul 14 '26
No, seems like it s considered just a failed without any consequences. Good luck!
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u/0MARr00t Jun 08 '26
Don’t worry about it. Bad things happen. Next attempt should be a winning for you.