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Certified Data Centre Expert (CDCE®)

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Duration

5 days

Course Description

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 efficiency in mind. Fact is however that most Data Centre's do not meet the full availability, capacity, safety or efficiency requirements often demanded. The ever changing technologies put even more pressure on data centre managers along with the ever faster pace at which these changes are required.

The Certified Data Centre Expert course is afive-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.

Certified Data Centre Courses

There are three levels of certification for Mission Critical Site Facilities courses:-CDCE®: Certified Data Centre Expert-CDCS®: Certified Data Centre Specialist-CDCP®: Certified Data Centre Professional

For Data Centre Facility Operations, refer to our CDFOM®: Certified Data Centre Facilities Operations Manager course.

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 who will be involved in the design/build, renovation or relocation of a mission critical Data Centre.

Prerequisites

Participants must hold a valid CDCS® certificate in order to register for the CDCE® class.

Delivery Structure

EPI courses are lectured by certified trainers. CDCE® is an instructor-led course that uses a combination of presentation lectures and question and answer sessions, to discuss attendees’ specific needs and issues experienced in their own environment. The CDCE® course is approximately 60% hands-on and 40% lecture. Attendees are able to tap on the trainer’s extensive experience to solve practical problems in their current environment, adding tremendous value.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • 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 eeffectively 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 fulfilling 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 final design development documents compliant to TIA standards.
  • Understand how to read electrical Single Line Diagrams (SLE) and other related design documents, and be able to detect the most common design mistakes.
  • Evaluate product datasheets and discriminate among technical specifications and functional requirements for suitability against a set of given design requirements for a given site and business case.
  • Correlate equipment specifications to site design constraints, such as room size and space, floor 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.

Certification & Accreditation

Attendees who successfully pass the exam will receive the official ‘Certified Data Centre Expert’ certificate. Certification is valid for a three years period after which the student needs to re-certify.

EXIN is a global, independent and not-for-prot examination provider. EXIN's mission is to improve the quality of the IT and Data Centre sectors, the proficiency of IT and Data Centre professionals and the IT users, by means of independent testing and certification. EXIN offers 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.

Data Centre Services

  • DCDE - Data Center Design Evaluation
  • DCDV - Data Center Design Validation
  • DCR - Data Center Review
  • DCCC - Data Center Compliance Certification
  • TIA-942 - ANSI/TIA-942 Audit & Tier Level Certification
  • SS507 - SS507 Audit & Certification
  • ISO24762 - ISO-24762 Audit & Certification
  • PQA - Power Quality Audit
  • DCCA - Data Center Cooling Audit
  • EMFA - IEC-61000-4-8 & NCRP/HPA Electro Magnetic Field Audit
  • TMS - Thermo Scanning
  • CUST - Customized surveys and audits

Module 1

  • The Data Centre Lifecycle
  • The Data Centre lifecycle stages & phases

Module 2

  • The Data Centre Project
  • Delivery options & methods
  • The team structure & team members
  • Team roles & responsibilities
  • Feasibility & business impact analysis

Module 3

  • Developing The Data Centre Design Brief
  • Business case assessment
  • Site selection assessment
  • Redundancy & resilience assessment
  • Risk & disaster recovery assessment
  • Design brief development
  • Hands-On Exercise: Develop project design brief & group presentation

Module 4

  • Preliminary Design Review
  • Preliminary design drawings review
  • Building layout & construction
  • Room/space allocations & collocation
  • Electrical & power distribution review
  • Mechanical ventilation & plumbing
  • Architectural aspects (slab-to-slab, raised floor, floor loading, ceiling, lifts)
  • Cooling infrastructure: design & air flow dynamics
  • Computer room & rack/equipment layout
  • Structured cabling review
  • WLD & fire suppression review
  • EMS/BMS & CCTV review
  • Environmental management: temperature & humidity, room & equipment monitoring
  • Security & safety review: physical/logical
  • Hands-On Exercise: Evaluation of design drawings & group presentation

Module 5

  • Final Design Assessment - Validation
  • Consolidated drawings validation
  • Tier compliance validation
  • Design freeze validation
  • Criteria for equipment selection / tendering & acquisition
  • Hands-On Exercise: Validation of final design documents & group presentation

Module 6

  • Product Evaluation - Equipment Selection
  • Equipment data sheets review:
  • Technical & functional specifications
  • Standards & tier level compliance
  • Maintainability & serviceability
  • Spares availability & repair-ability
  • Product & service warranty & EOL
  • Final selection / acquisition decisions
  • Hands-On Exercise: Develop final equipment selection list

Module 7

  • Individual Equipment Testing (IET)
  • Tools selection
  • IET plan development
  • IET script development
  • Hands-On Exercise: develop checklist, test plans & test scripts

Module 8

  • Integrated Performance & Validation Testing (IPVT)
  • Tools required
  • IPVT plan development
  • IPVT script development
  • Hands-On Exercise: develop checklist, test plans & test scripts

Module 9

  • Data Centre Handover
  • Facility (building & premises)
  • Mechanical/electrical/ACMV/re & security
  • Facility management & DC operations training
  • Documentation (drawings, manuals, etc.)
  • Maintenance & operations procedures
  • Documentation requirements & assembly review (AS-BUILT)
  • Key sign-os & hand-over certification
  • Hands-On Exercise: Develop hand-over plan & handover checklist

Module 10

  • Retirement
  • Decommissioning / re-purposing
  • Demolition & site clearance
  • Disposal of dangerous goods & hazardous substances & waste
  • Hand-over/hand-o& sign-o
  • Hands-On Exercise: Develop decommissioning plan & checklist

Exam Module:

  • Q & A review & exam preparation
  • Self-study period (time permitted)
  • CDCE® certification exams

EXAM: Certified Data Centre Expert

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