Hands-on Labs

Hands-on labs offer an immersive and practical learning experience, allowing you to experiment with various technologies and tools in a safe, controlled setting. You can find the list of existing labs in the QA library, and see the Upcoming Content list to see what hands-on labs are scheduled for the future.

These labs are designed to guide you through various steps that will help you gain practical experience in cloud or coding environments. Each set of Lab steps provides a structured path, ensuring you have a clear direction towards completing your tasks and corresponding validations at each stage to check your solutions - keeping you on track.

The timed nature of hands-on labs ensures you stay focused and complete the lab within the set timeframe. However, exceptions apply to labs included in the Beta Pause and Resume feature, which is enabled for a select number of hands-on labs only.

Completing a hands-on lab updates your skill profile. If the lab is part of a course, then completing it continues you on the path.

The journey through a Hands-on lab

The look of a Hands-on lab varies depending on the topic. For a lab requiring access to a cloud environment, such as Amazon Web Services, the setup includes initializing the necessary environments and completing the lab will require you to switch between tabs. Hands-on lab using a code environment, both the exercise and instructions will be within the same tab.

Tip: To get more space for your code Hands-on lab, reduce and hide the menu, or click the button in the upper right corner to detach the instructions into a separate tab. Close the tab to return to the previous view.

Hybrid code and cloud lab session page(code environment, lab steps, environment credentials)

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Cloud Environment 

Restart - End lab commands

Hands-on labs come with:

• A landing page.
• A description tab containing the instructions, steps and validations (optional) needed to accomplish the guided experience within a specific timeframe. Cloud labs feature a primary tab with the lab instructions and a secondary tab for the environment.
• A result page

Tip: If your corporate firewall prevents you from accessing our labs, try using the Enterprise Bridge Function to access the labs while complying with your corporate policies. Ask Customer Support more info on this feature!

As you're using the platform, please note that you can only have one active lab session at a time, whether you're accessing it as part of a business or as an individual user. If you try to start another Lab Session while one is already active, you'll be prompted to choose between the two active sessions.

If you already have an active session for a specific lab, you'll see a "Continue" button. Clicking on it will directly take you to the session page.