# Certified Analyst practice exam issues

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/certified-analyst-practice-exam-issues/314217
**Category:** Elastic Training
**Created:** [September 12, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/certified-analyst-practice-exam-issues/314217 "2022-09-12T18:04:35Z")
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### Author: ![Baron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de0a6/32.png) [@Baron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Baron)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/certified-analyst-practice-exam-issues/314217/1 "2022-09-12T18:04:35Z")

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Hi,

I'm having the same issue as described in the topic linked below. I cannot access any of the data in the user\_messages or raw-logs (which I assume is supposed to be used in the place of the apachelogs\* index in the instructions?) indices when I create a pattern and use a timestamp. It says the fields are there, but no data. I have made sure to change the time filter at the top too.  
When I create a pattern using these indices and specify not to use a timestamp, the data is all there and accessible in dashboards and discover.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

> [@Elastic Certified Analyst - Practice exam index data not available](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-certified-analyst-practice-exam-index-data-not-available/308361):
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> Hello, I have enrolled the practice exam and I was unable to find anything matching the index pattern apachelogs\*. Also, user-messages does not have any data in it. So I can’t do any of the tasks. Is there any way to continue here? I found a similar post here:

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### Author: ![Andre\_Murbach\_Maidl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andre_murbach_maidl/32/83508_2.png) [@Andre\_Murbach\_Maidl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andre_Murbach_Maidl)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/certified-analyst-practice-exam-issues/314217/2 "2022-09-12T20:32:54Z")

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Hi @Baron ,

I replaced your machine. Please wait a couple of minutes before the lab boots, so you can have access to the indices, as pointed out in the mentioned topic.

Best,  
Andre

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/certified-analyst-practice-exam-issues/314217/3 "2022-10-12T20:33:44Z")

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