CDCS - Certified Data Centre Specialist
CDCS is the advanced level for Data Centre Professionals and this 3-day course will further increase attendees to a level being a compatible sparring partner with suppliers and they will be able to verify offers provided by vendors for correctness, effectiveness, and efficiency.
CDCS is the second training in the EPI Design and Build training track under the EPI Data Centre Training Framework. Participants must hold a valid CDCP certificate in order to be able to register for the CDCS class. CDCS itself is a pre-requisite for persons wishing to achieve the CDCE status.
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Intended Audience
The primary audience for this course is an IT, Facilities or Data Centre Operations professional working in and around the data center (representing both end-customers and/or service provider/facilitators) and having responsibility to achieve and improve hi-availability and manageability of the Data Centre, such as: Data center managers, Operations / Floor / Facility managers, data center engineers, network/system engineers/data center sales/consultants.
Prerequisites
Participants must hold a valid CDCP® certificate in order to be able to register for the CDCS® class.
Course Benefits
After completion of the course the participant will be able to:
- Understand the design life cycle of data centers and the stages involved.
- Discuss the data center requirements in a great level of detail with vendors, suppliers, and contractors to ensure that these requirements are met.
- Validate design plans, quotes and others proposed by vendors/contractors.
- Understand redundancy levels for both the data center design/setup and maintenance.
- Understand the various building considerations such as bulletproofing, mitigation of seismic activity, fire ratings and thermal stability.
- Understand how to install a raised floor that meets requirements, avoiding misalignment, level differences, and leakage.
- Understand how to read a Single Line Electrical Diagram to identify and avoid the most common design issues.
- Choose the correct UPS and parallel configuration, learn and avoid classic parallel installation mistakes.
- Understand how to calculate battery banks, validate offered configurations to ensure they meet requirements.
- Understand what distance to keep to avoid EMF issues for human safety and equipment disturbances.
- Understand the fundamental cooling setup, CFM, Delta-T, and other important factors.
- Understand contamination factors and limitations.
- Understand full details of fire suppression options, how to calculate gas content and verify installations.
- Understand how to measure data center energy efficiency and how to improve it.