Forget planning your summer (or winter, for our friends South of the equator) holiday—it’s time to prepare for System Administrator Appreciation Day 2017! From blasting performance bottlenecks and slashing application downtime to defending against data loss and endlessly having to instruct end-users to “turn it off and on again,” systems administrators are the grease that keep the wheels of modern businesses turning day in and day out.

On that note, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so as one way to help celebrate this year’s holiday, coming up on July 28, we want you to get creative, witty, and downright funny in helping us caption 12 scenes in the context of life as a SysAdmin. It’s a SysAdmin Day “Caption This”!

Use this survey link to share your best SysAdmin captions for the included images by Friday, July 7, and we’ll give you 250 THWACK points. 

Today is THWACK’s 14^th birthday! At least in human years—who knows how many internet years that is?

Regardless, we could not be more thrilled to be celebrating another year with all 130k+ members of the THWACK^® community!

In honor of this milestone, we thought it would be fun to see how well you guys know THWACK in the form of a quiz, and of course, there will be prizes and THWACK points up for grabs.

To add to the excitement, all of the prizes are newly released THWACK store items!

What are your favorite THWACK memories? Tell us below!

How the quiz will work:

Use the hint resources to complete the tasks and answer the questions.

All questions are open starting June 9, 2017 at 9:00 a.m.

You will have until June 18, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. to complete all 15 questions.

All winners will be drawn on on June 19th.

Prizes:

• Correctly, answer questions 1-5 and you’ll be entered for a chance to win: A SolarWinds Lab^™ Beaker (worth 6,000 THWACK Points)
• Correctly answer questions 6-10 and you’ll be entered for a chance to win: A THWACK Hammock (worth 15,000 THWACK Points)
• Correctly answer questions 11-15 and you’ll be entered for a chance to win: A THWACK Bluetooth speaker (worth 18,000 THWACK points)
• Correctly answer all 15 questions and you’ll be entered for a chance to win to win: A THWACK Backpack with the new THWACK logo (worth 25,000 THWACK points)

*All prizes are being awarded in the form of points. If you are selected as a winner, you will receive the number of points needed to purchase the respective item from the store.

150 points will be awarded for each correctly answered question. There are 15 questions, which means you can earn a maximum of 2,250 points for this quiz.

Good luck!