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This term describes software that's freely available to use, modify, and share.

What is Open-Source?

100

Term meaning uptime/downtime

What is availability?

100

Length you have to wait after a deal closes before submitting a MyComp claim.

What is 30 days?

100

Author of Pride and Prejudice.

Who is Jane Austen?
100

Former HPE executive became CEO in 2015 and previously led eBay.

Who is Meg Whitman?

200

Difference between scale-up and scale-out

What is scale-up is getting bigger/better servers, scale-out is getting more servers?

200
True/False: COM can be used on Gen10 or newer HPE microservers.

What is true?

200

Quota bucket that Cohesity would fall into.

What is storage?

200

Smallest US state by land area.

What is Rhode Island?

200

Fruit Persia is allergic to.

What is mango?

300

Storage protocol used for file sharing.

What is NFS or SMB?

300

In this compute model, the operating system runs directly on hardware without a hypervisor layer.

What is bare-metal?

300

Our quota retirement on 3rd party software (Cohesity, Veaam, Microsoft, etc.)

What is 0.25x or 25%?

300

2 countries that start with J.

What is Jamaica, Japan, or Jordan?

300

How many members of the team are Persian?

What is three?

400

A method of storing data where it is spread across multiple disks for redundancy or performance.

What is RAID? 

400

This refers to the number of instruction cycles a CPU can execute per second.

What is clock speed?

400

Portal used to do HPE travel expense reports

What is Concur?

400

What GUI stands for.

What is Graphical User Interface?

400

Technology company founded in Houston in 1982 and was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002.

What is Compaq?

Fun fact: The 3 owners left Texas Instruments to start their own business and it was almost a Mexican restaurant.

500

Process of moving data, applications, and workloads from a public cloud environment back to an on-premises infrastructure.

What is cloud repatriation?

500

This technology enables seamless movement of virtual machines across physical hosts.

What is vMotion?

500

Name given to deals that will be purchased in US but shipped internationally.

What is IBC or International Cross Border?

500

Disti that CDW is exclusive to.

What is Ingram Micro?

500

4 out of the 5 boroughs of NYC

What is Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx?