Certified Data Centre Specialist - CDCS® (exam included) - Course Language: English

The Certified Data Centre Specialist is a three-day course designed to bring participants to the level of a suitable sparring partner with suppliers. They will be able to verify offers provided by vendors for correctness, effectiveness and efficiency. CDCS® is a must-have certification for professional data centre managers and personnel. CDCS® is a pre-requisite for individuals wishing to achieve the elite CDCE® (Certified Data Centre Expert) status.

After completion of the course the participant will be able to:

• Understand the design life cycle of data centres and the stages involved
• Discuss the data centre requirements in great level of detail with vendors, suppliers and contractors to ensure that these requirements are met
• Validate design plans, quotes and offers proposed by vendors/contractors
• Understand redundancy levels for both the data centre design/setup and maintenance
• Understand the various building considerations such as bullet proofing, 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 con guration, 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 re suppression options, how to calculate gas content and verify installations
• Understand how to measure data centre energy efficiency and how to improve it