Storage Management Practice Exam

About Storage Management
Storage management usually refers to the management of Computer data storage, which includes memory management. It can also refer to specific methods or products for storage management.

Storage management is a process for users to optimize the use of storage devices and to protect the integrity of data for any media on which it resides and the category of storage management generally contain the different type of subcategories covering aspects such as security, virtualization and more, as well as different types of provisioning or automation, which is generally made up the entire storage management software market.

Storage management has some key attribute which is generally used to manage the storage capacity of the system. These are
•    Performance
•    Reliability
•    Recoverability
•    Capacity

Why is Storage Management important?
Storage management is essential when catastrophe strikes. Data and applications that are essential to business operations should be stored so they can be accessed quickly if internal failures or security breaches happen. Storage should be prioritized according to the business needs of the company.

Storage management provides benefits as
•    It is very simple to manage a storage capacity.
•    It is generally take a less time.
•    It is improve the performance of system.
•    In virtualization and automation technologies can help an organization improve its agility.

Who should take the Storage Management Exam?
•    IT or storage professionals
•    Cloud Architect
•    Systems Administrator
•    Technology Architect
•    Implementation Engineer
•    Anyone who wants to assess their storage management skills
•    IT storage managers and senior executives
•    IT storage consultants
•    Professionals working in outsourced companies responsible for storage management
•    Any professional with skills and knowledge on storage management
•    Anyone interested in storage management

Knowledge and Skills required for the Storage Management

Candidates gain quick success in the career of Storage Management if they have skills of critical thinking and good communication skills.

Storage Management Practice Exam Objectives

Storage Management exam focuses on assessing your skills and knowledge in storage technologies, Data deduplication, Data Archiving , Data Replication and migration .

Storage Management Practice Exam Pre-requisite

There are no prerequisites for the Storage Management exam. Candidates who are well versed  in storage technology can easily clear the exam.

Storage Management Certification Course Outline

1. Storage Networking
1.1 SAN and FC
1.2 Zoning and virtualization
1.3 TCP/IP, IP SAN, iSCSI protocol
1.4 Addressing, discovery domains and VLAN
1.5 FCIP and FCoE

2. Storage Systems
2.1 RAID
2.2 Scale-up and scale-out
2.3 Block-based storage
2.4 NAS
2.5 Object-based storage device
2.6 Software-defined storage

3. Backup, Archive, and Replication
3.1 Data deduplication
3.2 Data Archiving
3.3 Replication and migration


Exam Format and Information
Certification name – Storage Management Certification
Exam duration – 60 minutes
Exam type - Multiple Choice Questions
Eligibility / pre-requisite - None
Exam language - English
Exam format - Online
Passing score - 25
Exam Fees  - INR 1199