PURE STORAGE DATA STORAGE ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION TEST 2026

PURE STORAGE DATA STORAGE ASSOCIATE
CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION TEST 2026

◉ VLAN. Answer: Virtual LAN


◉ VSAN. Answer: Virtual SAN


◉ Virtual Fabric. Answer: A network architecture that allows
multiple virtual networks to coexist.


◉ Business Continuity. Answer: The ability to continue business
operations during a disruption.


◉ RPO. Answer: Recovery Point Objective


◉ RTO. Answer: Recovery Time Objective


◉ SLA. Answer: Service Level Agreement


◉ High Availability. Answer: A system design approach that ensures
a certain level of operational performance.

, ◉ Fault Tolerance. Answer: The ability of a system to continue
operation despite failures.


◉ Replication. Answer: The process of copying data from one
location to another.


◉ Full Volume Clone. Answer: A complete copy of a volume.


◉ Partial Volume Clone. Answer: A copy of a portion of a volume.


◉ Snapshot. Answer: A point-in-time copy of data.


◉ Asynchronous replication. Answer: Replication with a non-zero
RPO.


◉ Semi-Synchronous replication. Answer: Replication with a near-
zero RPO.


◉ Synchronous replication. Answer: Replication with a zero RPO.


◉ Backup. Answer: A copy of data to protect against loss.


◉ Full Backup. Answer: A complete copy of all data.