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CertifiedData Center

Specialist (CDCS)

Offered by ICOR as part of theCritical Infrastructure &

Facility ManagementPrograms

Get Certified in Critical Infrastructure &Facility Management

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.

www.epi-ap.com

For more information aboutICOR’s courses, go to

www.theicor.org/courseware.htmlor call 866.SOLVE21 (765.8321)

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Course Outline: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

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

Course Description: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.

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

For more information about ICOR’s courses, go to www.theicor.org/courseware.html or call 866.SOLVE21 (765.8321)