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When copying and pasting doesn't yield a correct answer from the "Click here for hint" page, this is a failed question. Where do we lodge a protest?

A Network routed?

My problem is if they want to teach me about the product, TEACH ME ABOUT THE PRODUCT! Don't make me dig for esoteric wording or have to suss out nuanced meanings. It only serves to annoy me and that's the last thing anyone needs on a Friday. If I wanted to buy a welder and it didn't say within the first few bold points…

I never want to be a good test taker if it doesn't directly translate to the ability to actually solve a problem. I loath book smarts that don't actually impart a skill. For example, one could read about starting a camp fire with sticks and a shoe string all one wanted and pass a written test with flying colors but until…

Yep, today's question is still broken. I just did itand was marked wrong even though the "wrong answer" wasn't selected.

I originally had a dashboard with the top being a list of critical infrastructure items in not normal status and a world map indicating where in the globe there were issues. Something I could use as a quick go/no go for the morning.

I got question for yesterday wrong. I can't see 1920x1080 on a 11" tiny screen with my old eyes. Didn't know I was going to have to read fine print to answer the question. All I saw really long names. Bummer.

And this is how Solarwinds marketing material is worse than any other company's marketing material you'll ever see. CDW, HP, Cisco and Meraki want you to find information easily and quickly.

Again, in Question 12 at 8:19 AM CDT, I found the prescribed hint to be singularly unhelpful. It appears the white paper doesn't list one of the possible answers in as negative a light as the Q12 appears to color it.

I was going to ask if that was the date or the number of the question but that week worked out to be the same.

Failed question/hint/answers. Facts don't matter any more. Let's all get a trophy for showing up today!

It was so annoying and virtually useless that we dropped it off the dashboard as more trouble than it was worth. But, here's the map page that I can still find that has the same problem.

Yep, I am taking another star off my rating. WORST. MONTH. EVER! I read it and still don't see a clear answer. This is not an education or effective marketing. The included and inaccurately listed "Hint" is actually an obfuscation.

Solarwinds doesn't sell a product in the web filtering space but we use Zscaler and it has been a remarkable breath of fresh air compared to our previous Websense and our evaluation of IronPort (or whatever Cisco calls it now) as well as Blue Coat. I go days without doing anything with Zscaler. Websense was an every day…

Is it just me or are the answers NOT EVEN CLOSE today? The wording is obtuse and while I believe remotely shutting down a port is equivalent to turning off a compromised port, I'm loathed to check it because I've been burned on "technically correct but not what we asked for" way too many times.

With all this talk of songs stuck in your head, do deaf people have this or a similar phenomenon? It is somewhat stimulus based so I wonder it applies as well.

The hint is still inaccurate. For one, is a knowledge base the same as a native knowledge base? Then the quesiton asks: Incident, problem, and change management modules Only one is listed explicitly. What is an incident? What is a problem? What is IT Ticketing? Does I+P=T? The wording is unclear and confusing. I have never…

Again, how is this helpful? If the answer isn't that obvious that so many are missing it, how did this accomplish the task of making a network admin/engineers life easier? Trick questions are for trivia, not for teaching a novice to use a brand new product.

I do so wish they would stop using file share and file server interchangeably. They are not. One is a device and the other is a logical construct.

So, is MS SQL more specific than generic SQL for the context of the question. My gut says SQL is NOT MS SQL in the same way that all rectangles are not necessarily squares.

Average is imprecise terminology without using a qualifier. Mean, in the context of an arithmetic mean, was used in the hint and has a specific mathematical formula. Arithmetic mean is all values in a set added and divided by the number of values. Median is the center of the values in a set. Mode is the most prevalent…

In that particular instance, I'll agree but in question two, I do not see a clear winner. I don't run a helpdesk, never worked on a helpdesk and would not react well to being ambushed in the non-existent kitchen. Without a ticket, I'm not working on their problems and I may have had PTO scheduled. My point is, without a…

There are NO TIME MACHINES and it is a stupid marketing ploy. I call foul and deceitful marketing tactics.

Actually, @asheppard970​ & @ecklerwr1 I was thinking more along the lines of reading an emotion producing text/book/closed caption or having an ASL signed conversation in a memorable place have a response if they see a picture of the place or the text again. Is the audio all that key to the situation or is it merely one of…

We have been moving workload to the cloud, AD was the latest and DNS will be the next. I'm still not sure if it is a cloud or just a fog. I've been in IT long enough to see the pendulum move in both directions, from completely large system centralized to PC decentralized and back to server centralized and now cloud…

I disagreed with college professors over their poor wording. I don't drink the Kool-aid and I do not surrender my principles for the sake of getting along. The question/answer combo on Q19 is flawed, as were many this month. I learned nothing of value except that the time invested in this mission had a negative ROI.

That's what we've seen while investigating it. I'm hoping to retire before that OR IPv6 are implemented. Neither seem as necessary as the Powers that be (PTB) would have one believe.

In that case, you have a potentially non representative sampled group.

As I read it the question, not all of the Azure servers are listed but some not in Azure are listed?

<In Elmer Fudd's voice> The Wascally Wabbot has escaped! Good luck!