I’m sorry this happened to you. There are many, many stories of negative experiences out there regarding the online Pearson Vue exam. Thus, I cannot understand why some still choose to take this route. The proctors do not care how much you’ve studied, how inconvenient it is for you to travel to a test center, how your top two study methods are staring at your hands and mumbling the questions, etc. They are not trying to be inhumane, unreasonable, or difficult. The proctors have exactly one responsibility: to preserve the integrity of the exam and the PMP credential. If the proctors are not strict and allow things like staring around the room, mumbling, and looking at your hands, then it’s a slippery slope to the point where the PMP is a joke of a credential with no challenge associated. If you have any doubt whatsoever as to whether you can meet the demands of the online test, then you should elect to go to a test center. From personal experience taking the PMP exam in a test center at the height of COVID, it is far less inconvenient than doing the online exam based on the stories I’ve read. If you do choose to take the online exam, you should steel yourself for what you’re getting into, remind yourself that the proctors’ rules are not personal, and follow the rules exactly. If you can’t meet these standards, then unfortunately you deserve to have your exam revoked. The PMP credential is too coveted to allow anything less. If you do have your exam revoked, the answer provided by PM PrepCast will almost always be the same: talk to PMI, use the chance for a free exam, and go to a testing center.