Certified Data Centre Expert - CDCE® (exam included) - Course Language: English

Module 1 Data Centre Life Cycle

• Data centre lifecycle stages and phases
• Exercise: Stage/Phase/Milestone/Document mapping

Module 2 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

Module 3 Design Planning

• OSRA – Operational Systems Requirement Analysis
• TFRA – Technical Facilities Requirement Analysis
• Operations and maintenance review
• RFP – Request For Proposal process
• Vendor selection

Module 4 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

Module 5 Acquire

• Requirements of purchase orders
• Shipping terms
• FWT/FAT – Factory Witness Test/Factory Acceptance Test
• Sequencing
• Incoming goods inspection and handling
• Asset management

Module 6 Construct

• Temporary essential services
• Erection of the building
• Permanent essential services
• Building inspection
• Snag list
• COF – Certificate Of Fitness

Module 7 Fit-Out

• Fit-Out
• Builders cleaning
• As-Built Drawings

Module 8 Test & Commissioning

• IET – Individual Equipment Test
• IPVT/IST – Integrated Performance Verification Test/ Integrated Systems Test
• Common mistakes with IET/IPVT
• Deep cleaning
• Exercise: IET/IPVT scripting

Module 9 Hand-Over

• Facility hand-over requirements and documents
• PCC – Practical Completion Certificate
• DLP – Defect Liability Period
• Defect Management
• ICT Systems Installation
• ICT Systems Testing
• Hand-Over/DLP Expiry
• FCC – Final Completion Certificate

Module 10 Retirement

• Reasons and definitions of retirement
• Building the business case and project plan
• Sequencing
• Transfer of site
• Demolishing of site
• Legal matters
• FCC – Final Completion Certificate

Participants must hold a valid CDCS® certificate in order to register for the CDCE® class.

• Spoken Language: English
• Course Materials: English
• Exam Language: English

The primary audience for this course is any IT, facilities or data centre professional, who are involved in the design/build, renovation or relocation of a mission-critical data centre.