Introduction
With few exceptions, enterprises today rely on IT for the delivery of business-critical services - often directly to the end consumer. It is therefore vital that the mission critical data centre is designed, maintained and operated with hi-availability and e ciency in mind. Fact is, however, that most Data Centre's do not meet the full availability, capacity, safety or e ciency requirements often demanded. The ever changing technologies put even more pressure on data centre managers along with the faster pace at which these changes are required.
The Certi ed Data Centre Expert course is a ve-day course designed to prepare participants to analyze a given business case and perform technical evaluation for a project plan and a set of designs for implementation of a mission critical Data Centre. The course also engages participants in product evaluations and demonstrates how to select equipment and develop equipment test scripts (IET) and integrated performance and validation testing (IPVT). CDCE® builds upon knowledge gained in CDCP® and CDCS® courses.
Participants who pass the exam will join the industry’s elite Data Centre project design experts.
Roadmap
Audience
The primary audience for this course is an IT, facilities or Data
Centre Operations professional working in and around the data centre and having oversight accountability or responsibility for achieving and improving high availability and manageability of the Data Centre and involved in the design/build, renovation or relocation of a mission critical Data Centre.
Prerequisites
Participants must hold a valid CDCS® certi cate in order to register for the CDCE® class.
Global Accreditation
Choose an optimum site for mission critical Data Centre’s based on current and future needs
Describe all components important for hi-availability in a
Data Centre and how to e ectively setup the Data Centre
Understand the design lifecycle stages for Data Centre build projects and the phases involved in project execution.
Analyze a business case and develop a project brief that is aimed at ful lling the business resilience, site selection and design requirements for a t-for-purpose and suitably redundant mission critical Data Centre.
Conduct technical level design reviews for a given set of preliminary design documents and perform a technical compliance audit of a set of nal design development documents compliant to TIA standards.
Understand how to read electrical Single Line Diagrams
(SLD) and other related design documents, and be able to detect the most common design mistakes.
Evaluate product datasheets and discriminate among technical speci cations and functional requirements for suitability against a set of given design requirements for a given site and business case.
Correlate equipment speci cations to site design constraints, such as room size and space, oor loading capacity, cooling capacity, power quality conditions and maintenance requirements while ensuring equipment selection does not compromise desired tier level compliance.
Develop Individual Equipment Test (IET) and Integrated
Performance and Validation Test (IPVT) plans for a mission critical Data Centre.
Develop guidelines and checklists for hand-over of a mission critical Data Centre facility, its architectural, mechanical, electrical, IT elements and documentation.
Develop retirement plans for decommissioning and hand-over of an aged mission critical Data Centre facility.
Course Bene ts
After completion of the course the attendee will be able to:
Certi ed Data Centre Expert
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Facilities
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Manager
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Professional
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Safety
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IT
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Certi ed Data Centre Specialist
Certi ed Data Centre Professional
Data Centre Design / Build Data Centre Operations / Governance
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Migration
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Module 1
Data Centre Life Cycle
Data Centre lifecycle stages and phases
Exercise: Stage/Phase/Milestone/Document mapping
Module 2
Design Preparation
Creation of a SON – Statement Of Need
Technology review
Conceptual sizing
How to calculate for computer room space
How to calculate facility space
How to calculate incoming power
Exercise: Conceptual sizing building and power
Analysing capacity of existing facility
Analysing investment options
Site selection
Permits and approvals
Exercise: Site selection
Conceptual design
Module 3
Design Planning
OSRA – Operational Systems Requirement Analysis
TFRA – Technical Facilities Requirement Analysis
Operational and maintenance review
RFP – Request For Proposal process
Vendor Selection
Module 4
Design Development
Project Planning
Design Development
PDR – Preliminary Design Review
Equipment selection
FDR/V – Final Design Review/Validation
Exercise: Full design validation of power, cooling, oor plans, re suppression
Design Freeze and LLIP
Creation of construction documents
BOM/BOQ – Bill Of Material / Bill Of Quantity
Exercise: Equipment selection
Module 5
Acquire
Requirements of Purchase Orders
Shipping Terms
FWT/FAT – Factory Witness Test / Factory Acceptance Test
Sequencing
Incoming Goods Inspection and Handling
Asset management
Module 6
Construct
Temporary Essential Services
Erection of the building
Permanent Essential Services
Building Inspection
Snag List
COF – Certi cate Of Fitness
Module 7
Fit-Out
Builders Cleaning
As-Built Drawings
Module 8
Test & Commissioning
IET – Individual Equipment Test
IPVT/IST – Integrated Performance Veri cation Test /
Integrated Systems Test
Common mistakes with IET/IPVT
Deep Cleaning
Exercise: IET/IPVT scripting
Module 9
Hand-Over
Facility Hand-Over requirements and documents
PCC – Practical Completion Certi cate
DLP – Defect Liability Period
Defect Management
ICT Systems Installation
ICT Systems Testing
Hand-Over/DLP Expiry
FCC – Final Completion Certi cate
Module 10
Retirement
Reasons and de nitions of retirement
Building the business case and project plan
Sequencing
Transfer of Site
Demolishing of Site
Legal matters
FCC – Final Completion Certi cate
EXAM: Certi ed Data Centre Expert
Delivery structure
EPI courses are lectured by certi ed trainers. CDCE® is an instructor-led course that uses a combination of presentation lectures and question and answer sessions, to discuss attendees’ speci c needs and issues experienced in their own environment. The CDCE® course is approximately 60% hands-on and 40% lecture. Attendees are able to tap into the trainer’s extensive experience to enable them to solve practical problems in their current environment, thus adding tremendous value.
Examination
Certi cation exam papers can be taken in paper based format at the end of the last day of the course, or online via an authorised training partner, depending on the country in which the course is delivered. The exam is in two parts: Part A is a one and a half hour, 60 questions multiple choice, closed book exam. For this part of the exam the attendee needs to have 45 out of 60 questions correct. Part B is a one and a half hour, 25 open questions, closed book exam. For this part of the exam the attendee needs to have 75% of the answers correct. Results of the exam will be communicated to the attendee within four-to-six weeks following the examination.
Certi cation
Attendees who successfully pass the exam will receive the o cial ‘Certi ed Data Centre Expert’ certi cate. Certi cation is valid for a three years period after which the student needs to re-certify. More information on re-certi cation and veri cation of the current status of certi cation can
Global Accreditation
EXIN, is a global, independent and not-for-pro t examination provider. EXIN's mission is to improve the quality of the IT and Data Centre sectors, the pro ciency of IT and Data
Centre professionals and the IT users, by means of independent testing and certi cation. EXIN o ers candidates the opportunity to take examinations at a time and place of their choice. Every day, EXIN examinations are taken in more than 125 countries on six continents, and in more than 15 languages.
The Professional Engineers Board Singapore (PEB) is a statutory board in the Ministry of National Development.
PEB was established since 1971 under the Professional
Engineers Act. PEB’s Mission is to safeguard life, property, and welfare of the public by setting and maintaining high standards for registering professional engineers, and by regulating and advancing the practice of professional engineering.
Recommended next course
To further extend your skills in the Data Centre design arena, we recommend the CDFOM® course. CDFOM® builds upon knowledge gained in CDCP/S/E® which
Centre. CDFOM® is an essential course for those who are expected to manage the daily operations of a mission critical Data Centre. For a full course outline of this and other courses, visit the EPI corporate website,
Course scheduling
Our courses are available in a wide variety of countries in all continents. For course scheduling visit the EPI corporate authorized reseller/partner.
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Governance & Management Administration ISO/IEC-38500
Organization TC-260
ICT Services Management ISO/IEC-20000
Monitoring / Reporting / Control
ISO/IEC-90001
Environmental Sustainability
ISO/IEC-14000 - ISO-50001
Service Level Management
ISO/IEC-20000
Safety Management
ISO/IEC-18000
Security Management
ISO/IEC-27001
Project Management
PRINCE-2 / PMBOK
Organizational Resilience
Physical Infrastructure ANSI/TIA-942
Data Centre Location
ANSI/TIA-942 - ISO/IEC-24762
Building Management EN-15221
BC/DR
ISO/IEC-24762
BCM
ISO-22301
Facilities Management ISO/IEC-20000
ICT Infrastructure
EPI Data Centre Framework
The ‘EPI Data Centre Framework©’ provides Data Centre
Investors/Owners/Operators with a Data Centre Ecosystem
Data Centre. The Framework© addresses not only the site selection, design and out tting of its physical facilities but it also includes the governance and all processes required to organize and operate a Data Centre which meets the business requirements of its Customers. For
The Company
EPI Singapore is a British origin company operating world-wide via direct operations and a large partner network. EPI’s focus is on mission critical, hi-availability, environments. We have gained an international reputation as a company o ering an extensive range of data center infrastructure services including consultancy, audit, certi cation and training. We have developed an international reputation for high quality technical expertise, exibility, innovative techniques, personal service, and a powerful combination of capabilities and technologies.
All our services are aimed at helping our customers to:
Increase Availability of their mission critical infrastructure
Improve E ciency, E ectiveness and Manageability
Minimize risk of business interruption
All our clients have one thing in common – the need to protect their valuable data, run their mission critical infrastructure e ciently and be protected on a 24 x 7 basis. In protecting its customers, EPI is committed to an intensive program of comprehensive services development backed by engineering and support excellence.
Quality Systems and Procedures have been carefully created and adapted at every stage to ensure consistent and high quality services. We are known for our thoroughness, exibility and responsiveness of our project management. We work hard to provide unique solutions that t each organization and project, with an ethos to deliver quality on time, every time.
Let us put our expertise to work for you!
Data Centre Services
Consultation
- - Data Centre Design Validation
- - Data Centre Design Evaluation
- - Data Centre Review / Independent Second Opinion
Audit and Certi cation
- - ANSI/TIA-942
- - SS507
- - ISO/IEC-24762
- - ISO/IEC-27001
- - ISO/IEC-20000
Survey and Assessment
- - Power Quality
- - Cooling
- - EMF
- - Thermo Scanning
- - Physical Security
- - Customized Surveys
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.