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Certified Data Center Professional (CDCP ®)

HK258S

Course ID

HK258S

Duration

2 days

Format

ILT/VILT

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Overview

The Certified Data Center Professional (CDCP®) course is designed to introduce you to the key components of a typical data center. It addresses how to set up and improve aspects such as power, cooling, security, cabling, and safety to ensure data center reliability.

Course ID

HK258S

Duration

2 days

Format

ILT/VILT

Schedule, pricing & registration

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  • Audience

    This course is ideal for data center specialists, facilities managers, and IT professionals who work in and around data centers and those who are responsible for ensuring and enhancing data center availability and manageability.

  • Prerequisites

    There are no prerequisites for this course, but we recommend you have at least one to two years of experience in a data center or facilities environment.

  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Explain di­fferent types of data centers, their impact on business continuity, and the key factors affecting availability
    • Examine international and national standards, industry guidelines, and compliance requirements for data center design and sub-components
    • Identify site selection criteria, building requirements, and supporting facility needs to establish a high-performing and resilient data center
    • Deploy raised floors and suspended ceilings while considering cooling, grounding, load management, and airflow optimization
    • Design lighting layouts, emergency lighting systems, and positioning strategies to improve visibility, safety, and energy efficiency
    • Develop power redundancy strategies, configure UPS systems, microgrids, transformers, batteries, and optimize power distribution techniques
    • Assess EMF sources, shielding techniques, and best practices to protect critical IT equipment from interference and data corruption
    • Deploy AI-driven cooling management, containment strategies, liquid cooling, and seasonal thermal energy storage (STER) to improve efficiency and reduce costs
    • Deploy network cabling designs, redundancy strategies, and TIA-942 cabling topologies for a resilient and future-ready data center
    • Install re-suppression systems, detection technologies, and safety signage while ensuring compliance with re-protection regulations
    • Deploy physical security measures, access controls, surveillance systems, and safety protocols to protect data center assets from threats
    • Deploy BMS, DCIM, EMS, water leak detection, and alarm panels, ensuring continuous monitoring and proactive issue resolution

  • Certifications and related exams

    This course prepares you for the following certification exam:

    • Certified Data Center Professional (CDCP)

  • Course outline

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

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