The SNIA Qualified Sales Professional Program  is back up on the prometric testing center due to popular demand.  Stay tuned for more news later in 2008!

This Qualification credential can be obtained by successfully passing the new SNIA Qualified Sales Professional on-line (web-based) test. This test is available to take at your personal workstation over the internet! The cost is $100 (payable via credit card on-line) with the test length between 37 to 45 questions and you have up to three hours to complete the test.

Please go to http://ibt.prometric.com/snia to take the test.

This is an on-line non-proctored test designed for the Storage Sales Networking Professional or those IT Sales Professionals who are entering this area. The test is designed to be informative and will be updated frequently to meet the needs of the SNIA Qualified Sales Professional participant.

For the successful candidate, they will receive the use of the SQSP 2007 logo and a certificate (pdf). Since it is a non-proctored test, it will not count towards the SNIA SCSN-E credential.

SNIA Qualified Sales Professional test description

This on-line test will qualify that the successful candidate has knowledge of General Storage Networking concepts and Solutions. The test will cover the following topics from a sales perspective, including value-add propositions that help make the sales professional successful:

• Basic Storage Networking
• Disk Technology
• SCSI
• FC Storage Networking (SAN)
• IP Storage Networking (SAN)
• NAS
• Virtualization
• Storage Management
• Data Management (including ILM)
• Continuity Management

Self Study material

Resilient Storage Networks: Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures
Author: Greg Schulz
Publisher: Elsevier Science Technology
ISBN: 1555583113

Data Classification and Storage Optimization (pdf) (paper by Alex Adamopoulos)
http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary

Click here to view the Storage Networking Sales Professional description and sample exam questions.

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