Certified Data Centre Expert (CDCE)

5 Days

30 CPD hours

The primary audience for this course is any IT, facilities or data centre professional, who are involved in the design/build, renovation or relocation of a mission-critical data centre.

This 5-day course is designed to prepare participants to analyse a given business case and perform technical evaluation for a project plan and a set of designs for the implementation of a mission critical data centre.
The course also engages participants in product evaluations and demonstrates how to select equipment and develop equipment test scripts (IET) and integrated performance and validation testing (IPVT). CDCE© builds upon knowledge gained in CDCP and CDCS courses. Participants who pass the exam will join the industry's elite data centre project design experts.
CDCE© is the highest level training in the EPI Design and Build training track under the EPI Data Centre Training Framework. Participants must hold a valid CDCS certificate in order to be able to register for the CDCE class.

CDCE© is the premier certification for data centre professionals in the data centre design/build and related fields.

Data Centre Life Cycle

• Data centre lifecycle stages and phases
  Exercise: Stage/Phase/Milestone/Document mapping

Design Preparation

• Creation of a SON ? Statement Of Need
  Technology review
  Conceptual sizing
  How to calculate for computer room space
  How to calculate facility space
  How to calculate incoming power
  Exercise: Conceptual sizing building and power
  Analysing capacity of existing facility
  Analysing investment options
  Site selection
  Permits and approvals
  Exercise: Site selection
  Conceptual design
  Budget and project timeline
  Business case preparation
  Project delivery structure
  Project management options
  Project manager and team

Design Planning

• OSRA?Operational Systems Requirement Analysis
  TFRA?Technical Facilities Requirement Analysis
  Operations and maintenance review
  RFP?Request For Proposal process
  Vendor selection

Design Development

• Project planning
  Design development
  PDR ? Preliminary Design Review
  Equipment selection
  FDR/V ? Final Design Review/Validation
  Exercise: Full design validation of power, cooling, floor plans, fire suppression
  Design freeze and LLTI
  Creation of construction documents
  BOM/BOQ ? Bill Of Material/Bill Of Quantity
  Exercise: Equipment selection

Acquire

• Requirements of purchase orders
  Shipping terms
  FWT/FAT ? Factory Witness Test/Factory Acceptance Test
  Sequencing
  Incoming goods inspection and handling
  Asset management

Construct

• Temporary essential services
  Erection of the building
  Permanent essential services
  Building inspection
  Snag list
  COF?Certificate Of Fitness

Fit-Out

• Fit-Out
  Builders cleaning
  As-Built Drawings

Test & Commissioning

• IET?Individual Equipment Test
  IPVT/IST?Integrated Performance Verification Test/Integrated Systems Test
  Common mistakes with IET/IPVT
  Deep cleaning
  Exercise: IET/IPVT scripting

Hand-Over

• Facility hand-over requirements and documents
  PCC?Practical Completion Certificate
  DLP?Defect Liability Period
  Defect Management
  ICT Systems Installation
  ICT Systems Testing
  Hand-Over/DLP Expiry
  FCC?Final Completion Certificate

Retirement

• Reasons and definitions of retirement
  Building the business case and project plan
  Sequencing
  Transfer of site
  Demolishing of site
  Legal matters
  FCC?Final Completion Certificate

Exam: Certified Data Centre Expert (CDCE©)

• The CDCE© exam is in two parts: Part A is a 90-minute closed book exam, with 60 multiple-choice questions. For Part A, the candidate requires a minimum of 45 correct answers to pass the exam. Part B is a 90-minute closed book exam, with 25 open questions. For Part B the candidate needs to obtain a minimum of 75% to pass.

Additional course details:

Nexus Humans Certified Data Centre Expert (CDCE) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward.