Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) Course

Course Code: CDCP

Duration: 2 days

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Audience

The primary audience for this course includes data centre specialists, facilities managers and IT professionals who work in and around data centres and are responsible for ensuring and enhancing their availability and manageability.

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Prerequisites

There is no specific prerequisite for the CDCP^® course. However, participants who already have at least one or two years’ experience in a data centre or facilities environment may be best suited. Those with no experience just yet are most welcome to participate.

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Course Objectives

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

• Explain different types of data centres, their impact on business continuity, and the key factors affecting availability.
• Examine international and national standards, industry guidelines, and compliance requirements for data centre design and sub-components.
• Identify site selection criteria, building requirements, and supporting facility needs to establish a high-performance, resilient data centre.
• Understand raised floors and suspended ceilings while considering cooling, grounding, load management, and airflow optimization.
• Design lighting layouts, emergency lighting systems, and positioning strategies to improve visibility, safety, and energy efficiency.
• Develop power redundancy strategies, configure UPS systems, microgrids, transformers, batteries, and optimize power distribution techniques.
• Assess EMF sources, shielding techniques, and best practices to protect critical IT equipment from interference and data corruption.
• Understand AI-driven cooling management, containment strategies, liquid cooling, and Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage (STER) to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Understand network cabling designs, redundancy strategies, and TIA-942 cabling topologies for a resilient and future-ready data centre.
• Install fire suppression systems, detection technologies, and safety signage while ensuring compliance with fire protection regulations.
• Understand physical security measures, access controls, surveillance systems, and safety protocols to protect data centre assets from threats.
• Understand BMS, DCIM, EMS, water leak detection, and alarm panels, ensuring continuous monitoring and proactive issue resolution.

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Course Contents

The Mission Critical Site

• Business organization
• Types of data centres
• Importance of a data centre
• Elements of data centre
• Causes of unavailability

Data Centre Standards

• Standards and guidelines
• Standards for sub-components
• International vs. national standards

Data Centre Location, Building and Construction

• Criteria for selecting site location the data centre location
• Criteria for facility
• Supporting facilities and function

Raised Access Flooring and Suspended Ceiling

• Standards
• Types of raised floors
• Loading factors
• General guidelines
• Grounding
• Ramp and landing platform
• Suspended ceiling
• Raised floor and suspended ceiling impact on cooling

Light

• Measurements of light
• Standards
• Connecting and positioning of light fixtures
• Emergency light
• Types of emergency light

Power Infrastructure

• Sustainability
• Microgrid
• Transformers
• Generators
• Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) and Static Transfer Switch (STS)
• Power redundancy levels and techniques
• Power distribution / Busbar trunking
• Single phase and three phase power
• Grounding and bonding
• Isolation transformer
• PDU form factors
• Ingress Protection (IP) grades
• Power quality parameters
• Power sizing
• High Performance Computing
• UPS systems
• UPS parallel configurations
• Batteries
• Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)
• Thermographic scanning

Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF)

• Types of EMF
• Units of measurements
• Standards and best practices
• Sources of EMF
• Shielding

Equipment Racks

• Standards
• Dimensions
• Types of racks
• Security
• Power strips / rails

Cooling Infrastructure

• Cooling principles
• Temperature and humidity
• Types of cooling systems
• Raised floor cooling
• Non-raised floor cooling
• Supplemental cooling
• Containment
• Liquid cooling
• Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage (STER)

Water Supply

• Importance of water
• Backup water supply

Designing a Scalable Network Infrastructure

• Importance network cabling infrastructure
• Planning considerations
• Copper cabling
• Fibre Cabling
• TIA-942 cabling system topology
• Testing and verification of cabling system
• Redundancy
• Site-to-site connectivity

Fire Protection

• Common causes of fire
• Requirements for fire suppression systems
• Standards
• Fire detection systems
• Water based fire suppression systems
• Gas-based fire suppression systems
• Classes of fire
• Best practices
• Handheld fire extinguishers
• Requirements for signage and safety
• Regulatory requirements

Physical Security and Safety

• Components for physical security
• Components for physical safety

Auxiliary Systems

• Monitoring challenges
• Monitoring requirements
• Environmental Monitoring System (EMS)
• Building Management System (BMS)
• Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
• Water leak detection
• Alarm panels
• Notification
• Best practices

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