## Navigating the Challenge Lab
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>#**Challenge Labs**
>#####**Live environments. Scenario-based. Hands-on.**
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>###**What are Challenge Labs?**
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>- Hands-on learning experiences resulting in evidence-based skills.
>- Where you practice in realistic, safe, production-quality environments.
>- Available in different levels: Guided, Advanced or Expert
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>###**What Makes Challenge Labs Different?**
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>- Challenge Labs are problem-centered and focused on end results. Empowering you to explore, practice and “learn while doing” versus following a set of linear tasks.
>- They are goal-oriented, short-duration, hands-on scored labs that bring skills validation to the forefront of your experience.
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