SNIA qualified Storage sales Professional (Sqssp)

New SNIA Authorized e-Course!

Storage Networking Sales Professional Training e-Course $375.00 USD/25% off exam price
This vendor-neutral e-Course is designed for the sales professional to validate knowledge of storage concepts, features and benefits of specific technologies and storage networking solutions. This e-Course prepares the candidate to understand customer business requirements and make broad-based recommendations to meet the customer need and work with a more technical sales engineer or storage architect. The material in this course can be used to prepare for the SNIA Qualified Storage Sales Professional (SQSSP) accreditation.

NOW available on http://ibt.prometric.com/snia

SNIA's new Qualified Storage Sales Professional (SQSSP) credential is vendor neutral and is designed to validate storage concepts, terminology and basic customer need assessments.

In direct response to firms requesting specialized training for their sales and marketing professionals, this vendor–neutral training and credential provides individuals withll the technologies in today’s complex data center. Increase the knowledge base and credibility of your sales professionals by arming them with a broad set of information about a variety of different solutions in the storage ecosystem. Demonstrate to your customers that as a field representative you can speak with authority and know–how. A SNIA credential on your business card provides just the “leg up” that tight economies and budgets now require.

Requires Passing

SNIA Qualified Storage Sales Professional exam (S10-905).
Click here to see detailed description of what will be covered in the exam.

Exam Specs

40 test items
90 minutes
Cost: $100.00 USD payable via credit card on-line
Passing score: 70%

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

The successful candidate will receive the use of the SQSSP 2000 logo and a certificate (pdf). Since it is a qualification test, it will not count towards the SNIA SCSN-E credential.

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

Self Study Material

In support of the SNIA Technology Electives Program, SNIA will be offering an E-Course for those people who find it difficult to travel for an instructor-led class. This study guide is available online or downloaded to your PC/laptop and gives you the freedom to study "on the move" without carrying heavy books.

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