Module 1: The Mission Critical Site

• Business organization
• Types of data centers
• Importance of a data center
• Elements of data center
• Causes of unavailability

Module 2: Data Center Standards

• Standards and guidelines
• Standards for sub-components
• International vs. national standards

Module 3: Data Center Location, Building, and Construction

• Criteria for selecting site location the data center location
• Criteria for facility
• Supporting facilities and function

Module 4: Raised Access Flooring and Suspended Ceiling

• Standards
• Types of raised floor
• Loading factors
• General guidelines
• Grounding
• Ramp and landing platform
• Suspended ceiling
• Raised floor and suspended ceiling impact on cooling

Module 5: Light

• Measurements of light
• Standards
• Connecting and positioning of light fixtures
• Emergency light
• Types of emergency light

Module 6: Power Infrastructure

• Sustainability
• Microgrid
• Transformers
• Generators
• Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) and Static Transfer Switch (STS)
• Power redundancy levels and techniques, power distribution, and busbar trunking
• Single phase and three phase power, grounding and bonding, and solation transformer
• PDU form factors, ingress protection (IP) grades, and power quality parameters
• Power sizing
• High performance computing
• UPS systems
• UPS parallel configurations
• Batteries
• Battery energy storage system (BESS)
• Thermographic scanning

Module 7: Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF)

• Types of EMF
• Units of measurements
• Standards and best practices
• Sources of EMF
• Shielding

Module 8: Equipment Racks

• Standards
• Dimensions
• Types of racks
• Security
• Power strips and rails

Module 9: Cooling Infrastructure

• Cooling principles
• Temperature and humidity
• Types of cooling systems
• Raised floor cooling
• Non-raised floor cooling
• Supplemental cooling
• Containment
• Liquid cooling
• Seasonal thermal energy storage (STER)

Module 10: Water Supply

• Importance of water
• Backup water supply

Module 11: Designing a Scalable Network Infrastructure

• Importance network cabling infrastructure
• Planning considerations
• Copper cabling
• Fibre cabling
• TIA-942 cabling system topology
• Testing and verification of cabling system
• Redundancy
• Site-to-site connectivity

Module 12: Fire Protection

• Common causes of fire
• Requirements for fire suppression systems
• Standards
• Fire detection systems
• Water-based fire suppression systems
• Gas-based fire suppression systems
• Classes of fire
• Best practices
• Handheld fire extinguishers
• Requirements for signage and safety
• Regulatory requirements

Module 13: Physical Security and Safety

• Components for physical security
• Components for physical safety

Module 14: Auxiliary Systems

• Monitoring challenges
• Monitoring requirements
• Environmental monitoring system (EMS)
• Building management system (BMS)
• Data infrastructure management (DCIM)
• Water leak detection
• Alarm panels
• Notification
• Best practices