This course targets Managers, Executives, Directors, Strategic Planners and/or Professionals who are engaged with operational aspects of live and running data centers. From the disaster recovery planning to health and safety criteria to capacity planning, enhancement and upgrade management, risk mitigation and migration principals to growth modeling and schemes, HR roles and responsibilities, vendor and contract management of OLAs and SLAs are all covered and effectively outlined in the program.

The DCOM® generates distinguished data center operational managers, architects, service providers and mentors and enables them to have leading roles in high-availability Data Center Operations.

 

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DCOM® Syllabus

 
 
 

Day 1Data Center Infrastructure Specialist (DCIS)®

Data Center Overview
  • Data Center History
  • Data Center Definitions
  • The Data Center Beast
  • Data Center Downtime & Outage
  • Present Data Center Standards
  • Future of Data Center Standards
The Infinity Paradigm
  • Application Ecosystem (AE)℠
  • Core & Pyramid Models
  • The Organization
  • The 7 Abstraction Layers
    • Application Layer
    • Platform Layer
    • Compute Layer
    • ITI Layer
    • SFI Layer
    • Site Layer
    • Topology Layer
  • Application Delivery Model (ADM)
  • Application Delivery Infrastructure (ADI)
  • Data Center Node (DCN)
  • Logical Infrastructure
  • Physical Infrastructure
Grading Systems
  • Data Center Tiers & Classes
  • Data Center Grade Levels
  • AER, OER, EER, RER, SER
  • Efficacy Score Rating
Data Center Development
  • Data Center Tiers & Classes
  • Data Center Development Process
  • Data Center Phases
Site, Civil & Architecture
  • Data Center Site Selection & Criteria
  • Data Center Site Proximity, Hazard & Risks
  • Data Center Topology
  • Data Center Structure
  • Data Center Construction
  • Data Center Interior Fit-out
  • Data Center Space Relationships
  • Data Center CR, ER, MDA, HDA and ZDA
  • Data Center Raised Floor System
  • Data Center Grounding & Bounding
  • Data Center Earthing
Power Systems
  • Data Center Site Selection & Criteria
  • Logical Electrical Flow
  • DC, AC, W, AV Rates and Concepts
  • Utility Service
  • High Voltage Systems
  • Switchgear
  • Transformers
  • Low Voltage Systems
  • Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Systems
  • UPS Configurations
  • Battery and Battery Types
  • Generators
  • Fuel Tanks
  • Power Distribution
  • ATS, STS
  • Power Cabling
  • Busbar Trunking System (BTS)
  • EPO
  • Grounding
  • Lightning Protection System
  • Alternative Power Sources
  • EF, MF, EMF, EMI
  • EMF & EMP Shielding

Day 2Data Center Infrastructure Specialist (DCIS)®

Data Center Cooling
  • Environmental Air
  • Cooling Capacity
  • Precision Cooling
  • Direct Expansion (DX) Systems
  • Non-DX Systems
  • Cooling Methodologies
  • Cold-Aisle / Hot- Aisle
  • CRAC/CRAH
  • Cooling Topologies:
    • Open CRAC Systems
    • Aisle Containment (Cold & Hot)
    • In-Row Cooling
    • In-Rack Cooling
  • Cooling Towers
  • Chillers
  • Data Center Water Supply
Fire Protection
  • Fire Types and Classes
  • Smoke and Heat Detection
  • Aspiratory Detection and Sensing
  • Sprinkler Systems
  • Gas Suppression Systems & Agents (FM200, Novec, etc.)
  • Fire Prevention Technology
  • Data Center Safety
Data Center Security
  • Physical Infrastructure Security
  • CCTV
  • Access Control
  • Mantraps
  • Barbwires
  • Security Protocols & Procedures
  • IT Infrastructure Security
Data Center Structured Cabling
  • Cabling Layout
  • Patching & Termination
  • Labeling
  • Intelligence
IT Infrastructure
  • System
  • Storage
  • Networks
  • Virtualization & Cloud
  • External Telecom Connectivity
  • High Availability Designs
Data Center Efficiency
  • Cost of Energy
  • Power Usage
  • Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
  • Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIE)
  • Applications and Hosting Models
  • Applications
  • Application Delivery Architecture
  • App Tiers
  • Colo vs Managed Hosting
  • ASP Hosting
  • Public & Private Clouds
Data Center Efficiency
  • Cost of Energy
  • Power Usage
  • Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
  • Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIE)
  • Applications and Hosting Models
  • Applications
  • Application Delivery Architecture
  • App Tiers
  • Colo vs Managed Hosting
  • ASP Hosting
  • Public & Private Clouds
Monitoring and Management
  • MMS, EMS, EPMS, BMS
  • Temperature Monitoring
  • Leak Detection
  • Integration
Network Operation Center (NOC)
  • Systems
  • Procedures
  • Control
Data Center Trends
  • Latest Data Center Technology Trends
  • Latest Data Center Industry Trends
Examination

Day 3Data Center Operations Specialist (DCOS)®️®️

Intro
  • Data Center Operations Overview
Compliance
  • Data Center Assessment
  • Data Center Audit
  • Data Center Certification
  • Data Center Certification Types
  • Data Center Standards, Frameworks, BPs
Quality Systems
  • Quality Assurance
  • Quality Control
  • Quality Improvement
Business Continuity
  • Data Center Risk Factors
  • Business Continuity Management
  • Business Continuity Planning
  • RPO
  • RTO
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
Data Center Organizational Structure
  • Data Center Stakeholders
  • Open Process Framework
  • Data Center Operations Management Team
  • Data Center Business Manager
  • Data Center Topology Manager
  • Data Center Operations Manager
  • Data Center Node Operations Manager
  • Data Center Node Manager
  • Data Center SFI Manager
  • Data Center ITI Manager
  • Data Center Floor Manager
  • Data Center Site Manager
  • Data Center NOC Manager
  • Data Center S&S Manager
  • Relationships, Duties and Limitations
Human Resources
  • Principals of Data Center HR
  • People as Assets
  • People as People
  • Job Description
  • Recruitment
  • Benefits & Compensation
  • Orientation & Training
  • Performance & Evaluation
  • Retention Plan
  • Dismissal
  • Job Rotation
  • Skills Redundancy Plan
  • Data Center HR Challenges

Day 4Data Center Operations Specialist (DCOS)®️®️

Data Center Management
  • Cost Management
  • Asset Management
  • Equipment Lifecycle Management
  • Buy or Lease Evaluations
  • Warranties
  • Vendor Management
  • RAS, RFP, RFI, RFT, RFQ, IFB
  • Crises Management
Data Center Service Availability
  • SLAs
  • OLAs
  • SLRs
  • OLRs
Data Center Efficiency
  • Green Initiatives
  • KPI’s
  • OPEX Monitoring
  • DCIE, SEER, EER, COP, SPF
  • EUE and PUE v2
  • PUE Loopholes
  • Advanced PUE Concepts
  • Enhanced Cooling Efficiency
  • Increased Power Efficiency
  • Applied Virtualization
  • Utility Computing
Data Center Day-to-Day Operation
  • Data Center Policies & Procedures
  • Data Center SOPs
  • Data Center Checklists
  • Data Center WOs
  • Data Center SOWs
  • Data Center PTWs
  • Data Center Floor Management
  • Data Center Inventory Management
  • Commissioning & Decommissioning
  • Labeling Matrix & Methods
  • Business Office Management
  • Documentation Management
  • Data Center Micro Cleaning
  • Data Center Pest Control
  • Facilities Management
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Thermal Imaging
  • Cooling System Maintenance Regime
  • Fire Protection Systems Management
  • Electrical Systems Maintenance Regime
  • Generator Testing
  • UPS Management & Testing
  • ITI Operations Management
  • ITSM, ITIL v.3
  • Loading Dock
  • Shipping & Receiving Area
  • Staging Area
  • VTS and Burn-In

Day 5Data Center Operations Specialist (DCOS)®️®️

Data Center Capacity Management
  • Capacity Management Concepts
  • Cost-Value-Efficiency Analysis
  • ABC
  • Capacity Management Activities
  • Capacity Management Process
  • ETL
  • Facility Capacities & Load
  • Structural Capacities & Load
  • Telecom Capacities & Load
  • IT Capacities & Load
  • Capacity Benchmarking
  • Capacity Trending
  • Capacity Modeling
  • Capacity Analytics
  • Capacity Planning Tools
Data Center Monitoring & Management
  • M&M Goals
  • Monitoring & Management Systems
  • Environment Monitoring System (EMS)
  • Electrical Power Management System (EPMS)
  • Building Management System (BMS)
  • Network Management System (NMS)
  • Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
  • Business Service Management (BSM)
  • M&M Reporting & Analytics
  • Support & Help Desk
Data Center Safety & Security Management
  • Safety Priorities & Plans
  • Emergency Types & Plans
  • Security Controls & Management
  • Visitor Types and Access
  • Penetration Testing and Techniques
Data Center Maintenance & Repair
  • Data Center Maintenance Regimes
  • Data Center Maintenance Grades
  • Maintenance Scope, Budget, Skillsets, and Impact
  • Maintenance Contracts
  • MTBF and TTR
Data Center Operations Soundness Quiz
Examination
 
 
 

IDCA Course Modules

 
 
 
IDCA offers a broad range of educational programs geared specifically to the data center:
DCIS®

Data Center Infrastructure Specialist®

2-Day Certification Course

This course is fundamental for executives, data center owners, managers, and operators, to enrich their knowledge beyond the industry buzzwords. The DCIS course provides end-to-end coverage of the mission critical infrastructure systems that support typical Data Centers and environments with high availability requirements. The course will provide full understanding of the main components that comprise the Data Center build, highlighting benefits of each, to allow for the most appropriate system and component selection.
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DCES®

Data Center Engineering Specialist®

3-Day Certification Course

This course targets professionals who intend to become experts in the data center field. It caters extensive information to Infrastructure Architects, Designers, Consultants and Auditors, as well as facility operators, IT managers, application managers, engineers and project managers. The DCES course empowers Infrastructure Specialists (DCIS)® with selection and design knowledge that will assist engineers in formulating the appropriate framework for their Data Centers. The course will also enhance the awareness of stakeholders and enable the precise appraisal of their Data Center investments through Value Engineering (VE), leading to higher availability, reliability, efficiency, reliance, security, safety and capacity at optimized costs.
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DCOS®

Data Center Operations Specialist®

3-Day Certification Course

This course targets Data Center Mangers, Data Center Planners and Data Center Strategists that are responsible for overseeing, maintaining, managing & planning of Data Center capacities, efficiencies, availabilities and operations on for its intended purposes and designated footprints. The DCOS® course focuses on best practices to be applied, and mechanisms and methodologies to enhance the long-run objectives as well as the daily operations of Data Centers. It further teaches how to streamline processes, increase efficiency and productivity whilst maintaining high availability. The core concepts are based on demonstrated principles, which are optimized from lessons learned across Data Center front-runners such as Consultants, Managed Service Providers, and Data Center owners across varied industries.
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DCTP®

Data Center Technology Professional®

3-Day Certification Course

This course is aimed for Data Center Operation Managers® and Data Center Infrastructure Experts® who are in charge of planning data center technology roadmaps. The DCTP® course unwraps the true essence of technologies in and around the Data Center space. The new trends, recommendations, and the data center components that posses the finest design and selection criteria most suitable to prolong the life of the Data Center, save costs, increase efficiency, lower risks, and offer sustainable and optimum features. Various technologies from each category are showcased and compared with the available alternatives, legacy systems and other technology routes that differ based on the design topology and strategic planning of every data center.
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DCOM®

Data Center Operations Manager®

5-Day Certification Course

This course targets Managers, Executives, Directors, Strategic Planners and/or Professionals who are engaged with operational aspects of live and running data centers. From the disaster recovery planning to health and safety criteria to capacity planning, enhancement and upgrade management, risk mitigation and migration principals to growth modeling and schemes, HR roles and responsibilities, vendor and contract management of OLAs and SLAs are all covered and effectively outlined in the program. The DCOM® generates distinguished data center operational managers, architects, service providers and mentors and enables them to have leading roles in high-availability Data Center Operations.
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DCIE®

Data Center Infrastructure Expert®

5-Day Certification Course

This course targets developing experts who can lead the data center industry as consultants, architects, subject matter experts. It provides professionals the right skill sets from the foundational concepts to the engineering, design, grading concepts, which are driven by the industry’s live experiences and best practices. It clarifies the taboos in the industry, the gray areas where all providers, operators, engineers and experts continuously argue and question and resolves ambiguities in the expert’s mind as to how to plan, design and build data centers. The DCIE® requires achievement of unparalleled and thorough understanding of Data Center Infrastructure fundamentals of Engineering & Design.
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DCE®

Data Center Expert®

8-Day Certification Course

This course is aimed for Data Center Experts who desire to posses the right skill sets for architecting, engineering, designing and planning data center across industries. It covers power, cooling, safety, security, ICT, application and standardization parameters in developing, designing and building of the Data Center. The DCE® equips infrastructure experts with technology roadmaps, to aid in the design & appraisal of Data Centers, to ensure modularity and flexibility for growth and enhancement of sustainable reliability, efficiency and availability.
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DCM®

Data Center Manager®

8-Day Certification Course

This course is aimed for Data Center Managers who are not only in charge of data center operations, but the entire data center management cycle. It covers the management concepts, challenges, capacities, plans and strategies as well as technology aspects and deciding factors in determining and implementing best management principles. The DCM® certification strengthens the operational awareness of future technologies, leading to effective management of data centers by enhancing and preparing professionals for process advancements.
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DCA®

Data Center Authority®

11-Day Certification Course

This course is aimed for professionals who posses authoritative potentials. DCA® is the pinnacle of achievement and industry recognition for professionals with the necessary knowhow that would like to seek the opportunity to become subject matter authorities in their specific data center area. Individuals will be taken through multi-levels of foundation, concept, principle, theory, physics, strategy, management, engineering and design, technology and selection in order to complete this course work required for becoming a DCA®. In addition to course work, all successful DCA® candidates must fulfill the required criteria which include but are not limited to undergoing minimum G1 data center project alongside IDCA approved consultants, as well as submitting an effective thesis to the attention of the accreditation committee of IDCA. The thesis shall be driven from their professional experiences and subject matter expertise in power, cooling, application, security, etc. DCAs will be the front-runners of the data center industry and serve as key players and contributors to the industry’s direction. The DCA® is a leap into data center strategy, approached in the unique manner of capturing the operations aspects of a data center, compliance parameters and knowledge of the design and technology fundamentals, thus applying the insight into future technologies, amalgamating this knowledge to prepare the management, build, expansion, or upgrade for reliable, resilient, secure, innovative and efficient data centers.
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