Course description
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.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
CDCE© is the premier certification for data centre professionals in the data centre design/build and related fields.
Training Course Content
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
- OSRAOperational Systems Requirement Analysis
- TFRATechnical Facilities Requirement Analysis
- Operations and maintenance review
- RFPRequest 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
- COFCertificate Of Fitness
Fit-Out
- Fit-Out
- Builders cleaning
- As-Built Drawings
Test & Commissioning
- IETIndividual Equipment Test
- IPVT/ISTIntegrated 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
- PCCPractical Completion Certificate
- DLPDefect Liability Period
- Defect Management
- ICT Systems Installation
- ICT Systems Testing
- Hand-Over/DLP Expiry
- FCCFinal Completion Certificate
Retirement
- Reasons and definitions of retirement
- Building the business case and project plan
- Sequencing
- Transfer of site
- Demolishing of site
- Legal matters
- FCCFinal 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.
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