Certified Datacenter Specialist – CDCS® (exam incl.) (English) (partnercourse)

• Datacenter Design / Life-Cycle Overview
• Tier Levels
• Overwegingen en standaarden met betrekking tot gebouwen
• Verhoogde vloeren en verlaagde plafonds (advanced)
• Geavanceerde stroomvoorziening
• Electromagnetische velden (advanced)

• Geavanceerde koeling
• Geavanceerde brandbeveiliging
• Kabel management
• Omgevingsregelgeving
• Datacenter efficiëntie

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• Datacenter Design / Life Cycle Overview
  • Overview of the phases of a Datacenter life cycle
  • Planning, re-alignment and continuous improvement
• Tier Levels
  • History of “tier level” definitions
  • Tier level definitions, categories and measure points
  • Redundancy options
  • Tiered Infrastructure Maintenance Standards (TIMS)
• Overwegingen en standaarden met betrekking tot gebouwen
  • Floor loading requirements
  • Fire rating for walls and glass
  • Blast protection
  • Bullet proofing
  • Forced entry protection
• Verhoogde vloeren en verlaagde plafonds (advanced)
  • Raised floor installation guidelines to ensure contractors
  • install a proper closed and levelled raised access floor
  • Choosing the right tiles and their locations
  • Seismic mitigating floor constructions
  • Choosing the correct suspended ceiling

• Geavanceerde stroomvoorziening
  • Formulas which you should know for the Datacenter
  • Single Line Electrical diagrams; how to read to ensure key components are present for protection
  • Over current protection devices (MCB/MCCB/VCB/ACB/Fuses) definitions and what to use where
  • Earth Leakage devices (RCB/RCD/ELCB/GFCI/ALCI/RCBO), definitions and what to use where
  • Lightning strikes and surge protection devices (TVSS/SPD), how they operate, where to use and how to install
  • Power cabling and cable run considerations
  • PDU/DB setup and minimum requirements
  • Generator component make up
  • Choosing the required device
  • Calculate required fuel storage tank capacity
  • Paralleling of gen-sets
  • Regulatory requirements
  • Required specifications for UPS systems
  • How to read data sheets and select the correct UPS
  • Requirements for parallel configurations and avoid pitfalls such as single point of failures
  • How parallel installation should be done, classic mistakes made by installers and how to avoid these
  • Harmonic Filters
  • Type of filters available and which one to select depending on the application
  • Designing battery banks, how to calculate, and double check the battery bank to be installed
  • Battery charging pitfalls and ensuring the right charger is being installed and used
  • Using parallel battery banks; how to properly install them, limitations and risk when using batteries in parallel
  • How to test batteries correctly and make decisions on cell/block or string replacement
  • Battery casing choices; ABS, V0, V1, V2
  • Alternative energy storage; flywheel, re-useable cell etc.
• Electromagnetische velden (advanced)
  • Differences between single, three phase and bus-bar EMF
  • Options available to measure EMF and how to interpret the results from single axe and composite measurements
  • Guidance on safe distance for equipment and human
  • Calculation of EMF attenuation factor for shielding material permeability and saturation factors
• Geavanceerde koeling
  • Environmental class definitions and thermal specifications
  • Equipment airflow and Delta-T definitions and limits
  • Planning for floor, rack and cooling equipment
  • CFM requirement calculations and conversions
  • Air-conditioner specifications and how to select the correct air-conditioner with the required capacity and flow
  • Techniques for optimization of air flow
  • Redundancy guidelines for air-conditioners avoiding classic misconceptions
  • Liquid cooling guidelines for Datacenters
• Geavanceerde brandbeveiliging
  • Fire triangle and elements to stop a fire
  • Detection systems in detail (VESDA, VIEW, Smoke sensors)
  • Considerations for installation of sensors
  • Difference in water based systems i.e. dry-pipe, pre-action and why most of them don’t work and how to detect this
  • Details on Inert, Halocarbon, fluorinated systems