Reach the pinnacle of Pure Storage architecture expertise by proving your ability to analyse, design, configure, and optimise solutions across the entire platform and its ecosystem.
The PAE certification is a capstone credential for storage architects who understand the full Pure Storage platform rather than a single product. It validates the knowledge, practical experience, and architectural judgement required to integrate Pure solutions with operating systems, networks, cloud platforms, automation, protection, monitoring, and third-party offerings.
The exam covers three domains: Design (40%), Analysis (33%), and Configuration (27%). It includes 60 scored multiple-choice questions plus 10–15 unscored questions within a 120-minute time limit.
Interpret customer environments and analyse workloads, current-state constraints, networking, facilities, security, and cloud suitability.
Design complete Pure Storage solutions spanning products, storage networks, operating systems, automation, observability, and protection.
Determine where cloud and Portworx fit within a customer architecture and integrate them into a cohesive platform strategy.
Apply security standards and translate customer security requirements into practical architectural controls.
Configure access, storage, replication, array management, server integration, and third-party product connections.
Create comprehensive architectures that align technical requirements with resilient, supportable business outcomes.
Senior storage and infrastructure architects designing enterprise solutions across the Pure Storage portfolio.
Solution consultants who assess customer environments and translate requirements into platform architecture.
Experienced Pure Storage engineers moving from product expertise to end-to-end solution ownership.
Professionals with 3–5+ years of industry experience and 2–3+ years of hands-on Pure Storage experience.
Select a domain to explore the knowledge areas covered by this certification.
Prepare across all 3 exam domains with focused certification guidance from Zetlan Technologies.