Quizzes

Quizzes

• Test your NVMe-oF storage acumen

  Do you know the basics about implementing, enhancing and monitoring NVMe-oF? Check out our quiz to see if you're up to speed on this rapidly maturing technology.  Continue Reading

• NAS, SAN, or DAS? Quiz yourself on these 3 types of storage

  It's not easy to choose and deploy a data storage infrastructure system. Take this test to find out if you're ready to assess whether DAS, NAS or SAN is right for your business.  Continue Reading

• Test your unstructured data storage knowhow

  Do you know how to manage and store unstructured data? Take our quiz to see what's required for enterprise-scale data storage, how machine learning and metadata can help and more.  Continue Reading

• Put your multi-cloud storage knowledge to the test

  Do you know what you need to about multi-cloud and storage? Use our quiz to find out about the technology's basics, as well as integration, management and migration issues.  Continue Reading

• Test yourself on Fibre Channel basics and the latest updates

  Are you up to speed on Fibre Channel? Take our quiz to find out if you know how the storage networking technology works and the latest updates.  Continue Reading

• Is your SSD storage acumen up to snuff?

  Take our quiz to find out if you're up to speed on solid-state technology in areas such as SSD form factors, management strategy, security and innovation.  Continue Reading

• Test your grasp of 3D NAND flash technology

  Adoption of 3D NAND flash is on the rise and fueling growth in the NAND market. Take our quiz to find out what matters about this key technology.  Continue Reading

• Test your predictive storage analytics know-how

  As one of the major data storage trends of 2018, predictive analytics isn't a subject to overlook. See how well you understand predictive analytics and what it can do for you.  Continue Reading

• How well do you know server-based storage? Let's find out

  Server-based technologies have been flooding the storage market to meet the needs of organizations dealing with rapid data growth. Put your knowledge to the test.  Continue Reading

• Certification value survey: Do cloud certs help data storage careers?

  Take our survey on certification value and let us know how storage and cloud storage certifications stack up.  Continue Reading

• Understanding cloud computing storage

  The cloud is one of the hottest topics in storage today. Test your knowledge of cloud computing storage with our quiz.  Continue Reading

• Network-attached storage (NAS) basics: A quiz for beginners

  In our quiz on network-attached storage basics, learn the most important NAS terms, and the difference between NAS filers, appliances and more.  Continue Reading

• RAID data storage for beginners: A RAID quiz

  Think you know everything about RAID data storage? Take our quiz and find out.  Continue Reading

• Storage area network basics: A SAN quiz

  Take our storage area network basics for beginners quiz and test your knowledge of SAN technology.  Continue Reading

• SMB network data storage quiz

  With even more SMB network data storage products available than ever before, new challenges have emerged for SMBs. Take our network data storage quiz to test your knowledge.  Continue Reading

• Network-attached storage (NAS) quiz

  Network storage is fairly common these days, but how much about network-attached storage (NAS) do you really know? Take our quiz and test your NAS knowledge.  Continue Reading

• Storage resource management quiz

  Whether it's working with data collection, backup, recovery, or analyzing SAN performance, you'll need to know the best way to manage your storage resources. Take our quiz and become a scholar on how to master Storage Resource Management (SRM).  Continue Reading

• Storage arrays quiz

  If you're considering a storage array, you might find it to be trickier than you thought. Take our quiz and become a scholar on storage arrays, including array-based memory, RAID, and storage consolidation.  Continue Reading

• Network attached storage quizes

  So you're trying to master the intricacies of network attached storage and you want to know what's up with NFS, CIFS and gateways. Take our quiz on network attached storage and see how much of a NAS master you are.  Continue Reading

• Solid-state drives quiz

  While solid-state disk (SSD) devices offer faster speeds and consume less power than hard disks, the high price of solid-state memory has kept the devices confined to limited use in the data center. Storage professionals are now seeing more ...  Continue Reading

• Green storage quiz

  The concept of green storage is steadily gaining momentum in the industry. With energy costs on the rise, storage administrators are looking to green storage technologies to help run their data centers more efficiently. But how much do you really ...  Continue Reading

• SMB storage arrays

  Take this quick quiz to find out how much you know, and what you need to know about storage arrays.  Continue Reading

• Data storage hardware quiz

  Storage hardware, also known as primary storage, is a critical aspect in running your storage shop. How does your knowledge of storage hardware stack up? Take our quick quiz and find out today!  Continue Reading

• Data storage quiz

  So you say you're an expert when it comes to backup or RAID or SANs? That's nice, but you have to admit there's just something about the well-rounded storage techie that makes him/her a hot commodity. Take our Data storage quiz and see how you stack...  Continue Reading

• RAID-6 or RAID-DP

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• One port buffer credit

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• Clustered file system

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• Data storage quiz cheat sheet

  If you must peek and cheat, here are the answers to our Data storage quiz.  Continue Reading

• Storage IQ: Compliance

  When it comes to compliance, you better have your "acts" together or there could be some hefty fines coming your way. Challenge your co-workers, take our Storage IQ Compliance quiz and see who knows what about compliance. Click on the link below ...  Continue Reading

• Data storage technologies quiz

  Sit down, grab a pencil and some paper, and list what you think are the top 10 data storage technologies of 2006. Then, take our quick quiz to see how many match up to our top 10 picks.  Continue Reading

• Test your IQ: Business continuity -- ANSWER 1

  Test your BC IQ and see if you know what a good, solid BC plan should include.  Continue Reading

• Test your IQ: Business continuity -- ANSWER 2

  This type of plan specifies a means of maintaining essential services at the crisis location.  Continue Reading

• Test your IQ: Business continuity -- ANSWER 5

  Test your BC IQ and see if you know what a good, solid BC plan should include.  Continue Reading

• Test your IQ: Business continuity -- ANSWER 6

  Does your company have a business continuity (BC) plan? If it does, it's headed in the right direction. If not, it's wise that you start putting one together now. Test your BC IQ and see if you know what a good, solid BC plan should include.  Continue Reading

• Test your IQ: Business continuity -- ANSWER 4

  Test your BC IQ and see if you know what a good, solid BC plan should include.  Continue Reading

• SAN School Answer #7

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• Storage Smarts Quiz: RAID

  Take a few minutes and test yourself on RAID with our Storage Smarts Quiz. Do you know which RAID type is the fastest or which one is seen in SATA environments?  Continue Reading

• Storage area network quiz

  It's all about the storage area network (SAN) -- man. The more you know, the easier it is. Take our SAN quiz and find out where you stand as a SAN guru.  Continue Reading

• RAID-3: Virtual disk blocks

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• RAID-7

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• RAID-0: Striping

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• RAID-5: Striped parity

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• RAID-2: Hamming code error correction

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• RAID-6: Dual parity

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• RAID-50

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• Storage Management Survival School, Quiz one

  Test your storage managment knowledge with quiz one of Storage Management Survival School.  Continue Reading

• Storage: Do you speak geek?

  Think you know storage? Take our quick quiz and see how you measure up on our storage geek-o-meter. How many can you guess without peeking?  Continue Reading

• Backup School Quiz 1, Answer # 5

  Here is the answer to Backup School quiz 1, question # 5.  Continue Reading

• Backup School Quiz 1, Answer # 2

  Here is the answer to Backup School quiz 1, question # 2.  Continue Reading

• Backup School Quiz 1, Answer 7

  Here is the answer to Backup School quiz 1, question # 7.  Continue Reading

• Backup School Quiz 1, Answer # 8

  Here is the answer to Backup School quiz 1, answer # 8.  Continue Reading

• Quiz #4: SAN School

  Now that you've listened to SAN school webcasts 12-14, take a quiz and test your expertise on SANs. Good luck!  Continue Reading

• Quiz #3: SAN school

  Now that you've listened to SAN school webcasts 8-11, take a quiz and test your expertise on SANs. Good luck!  Continue Reading

• Quiz #2: SAN school

  Now that you've listened to SAN school webcasts 5-7, take a quiz and test your expertise on SANs. Good luck!  Continue Reading

• Quiz #1: SAN school

  Now that you've listened to SAN school webcasts 1-4, take a quiz and test your expertise on SANs.  Continue Reading

• SAN School Answer #3

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• SAN School Answer #1

  SAN SCHOOL ANSWER #1  Continue Reading

• SAN School Answer #2

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• SAN School Answer #8

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• Quiz #5: Storage area networks

  Try your hand at the fifth complete quiz in our Storage Smarts series and find out how much you really know about storage area networks.  Continue Reading

• Quiz #4: Backup & recovery

  Try your hand at the fourth complete quiz in our Storage Smarts series and find out how much you really know about backup and recovery.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #38: Controller failure

  Are you storage savvy? Take our quiz and see how much you really know about storage.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #36: Server speed

  Are you storage savvy? Take our quiz and see how much you really know about storage.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #35: Journaling

  Are you storage savvy? Take our quiz and see how much you really know about storage.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #34: Helical scan

  Are you storage savvy? Take our quiz and see how much you really know about storage.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #33: Mammoth

  Are you storage savvy? Take our quiz and see how much you really know about storage.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #32: COLD

  Are you storage savvy? Take our quiz and see how much you really know about storage.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #31: Serverless backup

  Are you storage savvy? Take our quiz and see how much you really know about storage.  Continue Reading

• Quiz #3: Storage networking

  Try your hand at the third complete quiz in our Storage Smarts series and find out how much you really know about storage networking.  Continue Reading

• Quiz #2: Storage management

  If you missed any of the Storage Smarts questions in our daily e-mails, here's another chance to try your hand at questions 11 to 20.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #11: HSM

  Think you know storage? Take our quiz and test your smarts.  Continue Reading

• Quiz #1: Storage Smarts 101

  Take the quiz and find out how storage smart you really are.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #10: Unit of measure

  Think you know storage? Take our quiz and test your storage smarts.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #3: SCSI

  Are you storage savvy? Take our quiz and see how much you really know about storage.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #2: Holographic storage

  Are you storage savvy? Take our quiz and see how much you really know about storage.  Continue Reading

• Storage Smarts Answer #1: Memory

  How much do you really know about storage? Try your hand at this quiz.  Continue Reading