Certified Datacenter Expert (CDCE)

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 efficiency in mind. Fact is, however, that most Datacenters 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 faster pace at which these changes are required.

The Certied Datacenter Expert course is a five-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 Datacenter. 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

Target Audience

The primary audience for this course is an IT, facilities or Datacenter 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 Datacenter and involved in the design/build, renovation or relocation of a mission critical Data Centre.

Foreknowledge

Certified Datacenter Professional (CDCP)
Certified Datacenter Specialist (CDCS) 

Goal

• Choose an optimum site for mission critical Datacenters based on current and future needs
• Describe all components important for hi-availability in a Datacenter and how to effectively setup the Datacenter
• Understand the design lifecycle stages for Datacenter build projects and the phases involved in project execution
• Analyze a business case and develop a project brief that is aimed at fullling the business resilience, site selection and design requirements for a t-for-purpose and suitably redundant mission critical Datacenter
• 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 specications and functional requirements for suitability against a set of given design requirements for a given site and business case
• Correlate equipment specications 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 Datacenter
• Develop guidelines and checklists for hand-over of a mission critical Datacenter facility, its architectural, mechanical, electrical, IT elements and documentation
• Develop retirement plans for decommissioning and hand-over of an aged mission critical Datacenter facility.

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