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Been rather busy this week and just did Monday's question (Q6 on the 8th). I got it right, but only by following a very strictly literal following of the hint and I have to agree with most of the rest of you, this was very poorly worded. If the goal was to deliberately try to trick us, you succeeded. If the goal was to get…

Missed today's question, first one I've missed in ages. The hint was utterly worthless. Guessed the most logical response given my working knowledge of Solarwinds products in general. Apparently that was the wrong answer, but the text afterwards didn't seem to indicate any of the other responses as correct either.

tb52 Please reference the comment where someone was whining about not getting fake internet points. Over the years there have been comments and feedback where there was some whining going on, but this month has been completely about the poorly written questions and even worse marketing material. When I first started on…

No one is saying that at all. Like, at all. But marketing, both positive and negative, even if it is tangential to the core product, absolutely affects our purchase decisions. Marketing copy that is confusing should be rewritten so that it isn't confusing, and if features aren't noted that are actually supported (and…

Monthly! That sounds fantastic! We have been trying to get to a point where we can even test yearly reliably and even that has been a tough sell.

No worries @███, in any case I wasn't complaining about missing out on points, I have dug 4 or 5 links in and read multiple e-books in the past to find out an answer. In this case, I was being a bit deliberately obtuse but also trying to show how others might intrepret information. Remember that these missions are a way…

Today's question about locking and blocking was literally the first question I have ever missed. I honestly don't know why my answer was wrong. Video questions are a challenge anyway since I have no audio at work and have to rely on captions. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that today's failure rate is abnormally…

Backwards, this question is.

Primarily I am a route/switch Campus LAN and Branch WAN guy, but I also do a lot of security/ACL/NAC/firewall stuff. Not to mention troubleshooting and collaboration with the main TechSupport/HelpDesk team since I have extensive knowledge related to DNS/DHCP and AD. I really think of myself as the glue that holds all of…

Civil money penalties certainly does appear as a specific answer, i.e., "C. Fines." Not sure what point you are trying to make...

Yeah, today's question was worded just right to make you think it was meant one way... but the answer is actually pretty cut and dried obvious! Don't overthink this one. Well, don't underthink it either.

That is the workaround, but I don't typically get on Thwack outside of work; my routine is to check a handful of websites to start my day, Thwack being one of them, and then I don't typically think about them again until the next day. Sadly we're not in cubicle farms, our company went to an open concept several years ago…

Interesting, yeah I started it at 9:30a and 90 minutes later it's still just "scanning." I'll keep waiting given your comment oiram​.

I got this one right because I remember a similar question when PerfStack was first introduced. It is phrased a bit odd though and I'll admit I did pause to consider the interface choice.

If I had a nickel for every time I missed the final Friday of a mission for free points and survey... I'd have like a quarter or something. But yeah, each monthly mission closes on the Sunday night after the last Friday, so if you take a long weekend and want those points, you pretty much have to set yourself a reminder to…

I've now watched the video three times. I have no sound at work, so I have to rely on the captions from YouTube. My answer yesterday was wrong based upon the captions of the video. I followed your advice by simply watching the video closely and ignoring the audio/captions. I had an "ah-ha!" moment as I saw new information…

Hey Danielle, just to give you some additional feedback (regarding Q14), I got this question right only because I assumed what you were looking for (in other words, I guessed). The chosen terminology definitely gave me some pause, because I, like many others have already noted, draw a difference between UP and populated. I…

My NCAA tournament bracket is doing so much better... I got 2 of the Final Four there, and 0 out of 4 here. Apparently I am really bad at predicting the Thwack hivemind.

My problem with today's question is why is it a multiple selection checklist instead of radio buttons? In the video/hint, there is only one of the four options mentioned. I could make a decent argument for at least one of the other options in today's question. I am absolutely not going to answer this one until later in the…

If you watch the first few seconds of the video in the Key Features section, it may add to your understanding of the full set of features. No need to listen to the video or even have sound either (I don't have sound at work). I got the question right and I suspect everyone is overlooking the obvious (I almost did too). To…

I'm curious how this would cost 5x more for your team. I'm not sure what the renewal costs per year are (and I'm assuming WHD requires yearly spend just like NPM and everything else does), but for a team of 5 agents and 1000 devices SWSD on a business level license is $5940/yr. WHD looks to be $3500/yr for 5 techs, plus…

I've always been fascinated with technology. When I was about 5 years old, my father bought a Macintosh II (a used model in 1989), followed by an LC II a few years later (I think that was new though!). I can remember "playing" MacPaint for hours; my dad showed me how to "load" the program by doing a 4 floppy disk swap.…

Already mentioned by others but each and every answer given for today's question is wrong. And by wrong, I mean there is at least 1 letter difference between each device listed and what is actually displayed in the demo. There is no way I'm wasting time trying to guess today.

I was wondering if anyone was going to burst their bubble... I didn't have the heart to do it!

We are cheap marketing copy reviewers, whether you realize it or not. Our discussions and frustrations allow Solarwinds to rework their marketing copy and even the overall strategy but only if we write up our feedback on the website. The hints are essentially Solarwinds asking us to review their documentation for them so…

In that case, you should also change it in the second paragraph.

I've always had the heart of an editor in me. That and I write a significant amount of technical documentation!

Came to check if the survey was stuck for anyone else and if there was a fix... and yup, it's broken for me too. Guess there is no fix yet...

Are you referring to today's question? Today's hint wasn't a word for word exact copy of the correct answers, but it definitely covered the concepts that the question was seeking.

Interesting perspective; I'll admit to being one of the loudest horns tooting the idea that IT is a customer service department. And although I see the point you are trying to make, regarding the differences between customer and consumer I think you are splitting hairs that aren't always there. I don't think it's that easy…