Prove the practical, step-by-step skills required to diagnose issues and support Pure Storage FlashBlade products in enterprise and customer environments.
The FBSS certification validates the knowledge and hands-on skills needed to support and troubleshoot Pure Storage FlashBlade. It is designed for professionals who must shorten resolution time, improve customer outcomes, and confidently work across software, networking, access, capacity, and hardware issues.
The exam covers six weighted domains and includes 60 scored multiple-choice questions plus 10–15 unscored questions within a 120-minute time limit.
Use the FlashBlade GUI and CLI, create file systems, configure protection policies, and perform software upgrades.
Investigate connectivity with packet capture, LACP, port-error analysis, ping, and route-tracing tools.
Troubleshoot NFS, SMB, and S3 access together with directory-service and identity dependencies.
Identify bottlenecks, load-balancing concerns, and capacity conditions affecting performance.
Recognise and diagnose blade, fabric module, QSFP, and cabling hardware components.
Apply structured support methods to isolate faults and improve time to resolution.
Pure Storage and partner support specialists who diagnose FlashBlade incidents and customer issues.
Enterprise or restricted-site teams with elevated access to their FlashBlade environments.
Infrastructure engineers responsible for storage connectivity, directory services, and data access.
FlashBlade practitioners with 12–24 months of experience seeking specialist validation.
Select a domain to explore the knowledge areas covered by this certification.
Prepare across all 6 exam domains with focused certification guidance from Zetlan Technologies.