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Certified Data Centre Specilaist was developed by EPI, a British origin
company offering an extensive range of infrastructure and infrastructure
management products and services. The Certified Data Centre series of
courses are aimed at helping the industry to guarantee standards for
professionals managing mission critical sites.
Certified
Data Center
Specialist
(CDCS)
Offered by ICOR as part of the
Critical Infrastructure &
Facility Management
Programs
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ICOR’s courses, go to
www.theicor.org/courseware.html
or call 866.SOLVE21 (765.8321)
Course Description:
Course Outline:
The CDCS is a 3 day course following the CDCP – participants must hold a
CDCP certification to take this course. CDCS is a pre-requisite for persons
wishing to achieve the CDCE status.
Day 1 Covers the Following:
•Data Center Design/Life Cycle Overview
•Tier Levels
•Building Considerations & Standards
•Advanced Raised Floor & Suspended Ceiling
•Advanced Power
•Generators
•Ups Systems
•Harmonic Filters
•Battery Banks
The focus for the CDCS course is on specializing, building on what was
learned in the CDCP course - ensuring participants understand suppliers and
vendors and how to verify offers for correctness, effectiveness and efficiency.
The primary audience for the CDCS course is an IT, Facilities or Data Center
Operations professional working in and around the data center and having
responsibility to achieve and improve hi-availability and manageability of the
data center.
After completion of the course you will be able to:
•Understand the design life cycle of data centers and the stages involved
•Discuss in great level of detail requirements with vendors, suppliers and
contractors and ensure that they do the right thing for the customers
business and not what is right for the vendor
•Verify on the technical level design plans, quotes and offers proposed
by vendors/contractors
•Understand Tier-levels for both the data center design/setup as well
as maintenance tier levels
•Understand the various building considerations such as bullet proofing,
mitigation of seismic activity, fireratings and thermal stability
•Understand how to build up a raised floor and making sure it is done
properly to avoid misalignment, level differences and leakage
•Understand how to read Single Line Electrical Diagram and taking out the
most common design issues made.
•Choose the right UPS and parallel configuration and learn how to make
sure that classic mistakes when installing parallel systems can be avoided
•Understand how to calculate battery banks enabling you to double check
offered configurations ensuringthey meet your requirements
•Understand what distance to keep to avoid EMF issues for human safety
and equipment disturbances
•Understand all about cooling setup and CFM, Delta-T and other
important factors
•Understand contamination factors and limitations
•Understand full details of fire suppression options and how to calculate gas
content and verify installations
•Understand how to measure data center energy efficiency and how to
improve it
Day 2 Covers The Following:
•Advanced Electro Magnetic Fields
•Advanced Cooling
•Advanced Fire Protection
Day 3 Covers The Following:
•Cable Management
•Environmental Specifications
•Data Center Efficiency
Question and Answers and exam preparation
(if time permits)
EXAM:
Certified Data Center Specialist
For more information about ICOR’s courses, go to www.theicor.org/courseware.html or call 866.SOLVE21 (765.8321)