Certified Data Center Professional - CDCP® (exam incl.) (English)

In todays digital era, enterprises rely on IT infrastructure to deliver critical services. At the core of this infrastructure lies the data centre, where availability, efficiency, and resilience are essential. However, many data centres fall short of the demanding requirements of modern workloads such as AI and high-performance computing, putting businesses at risk.

This intensive 2-day course offers a solution for professionals responsible for managing and optimising data centres.

You will develop a solid foundational knowledge of all critical aspects of data centre infrastructure – from power supply and cooling to fire protection, physical security, and structured cabling.

This course empowers you not only to support todays data centre environments effectively, but also to strategically prepare for future technological advancements.

Exam
On the final day of the course, you will take the EXIN certification exam. The accompanying certificate is globally recognised and valid for three years.

Are you participating virtually or unable to attend the final day on-site? In that case, youll receive an exam voucher for an online exam, which you can schedule at your convenience.

The exam fee is included in the course price.

Objectives

After this course you 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.
Deploy 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.
Deploy AI-driven cooling management, containment strategies, liquid cooling, and Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage (STER) to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
Deploy 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.
Deploy physical security measures, access controls, surveillance systems, and safety protocols to protect data centre assets from threats.
Deploy BMS, DCIM, EMS, water leak detection, and alarm panels, ensuring continuous monitoring and proactive issue resolution.

Target audience

Data centre specialists, facilities managers, and IT professionals who work in and around data centres and are responsible for ensuring and improving their availability and manageability.

Requirements

There is no specific prerequisite, work experience in or around a data centre is an advantage.

Particularities

This course is delivered in collaboration with one of our partners. The corresponding exam is taken at the end of the last course day. Do you prefer to do the exam on another day? This can be done. You can take an exam every day at the Vijfhart Examination Center. Please indicate which day you prefer when booking. The material for this course is provided in a secure PDF and is personal. To open this file, the javelin reader must be installed. Please note: this cannot be installed on some work systems due to security. Advice: bring a laptop/tablet without restrictions to the course.

Jan Struik

senior accountmanager

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Topics

The mission critical site
Data centre standards
Data centre location, building and construction
Raised access flooring and suspended ceiling
Light
Power infrastructure
Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF)

Equipment racks
Cooling Infrastructure
Water supply
Designing a scalable network infrastructure
Fire protection
Physical security and safety
Auxiliary Systems

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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 oor cooling
- Non-raised oor 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

Schedule & Price

* * This course event is guaranteed to run.
*Een cursus met valt onder de actie Summer Academy.

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