Certification Preparation
Review and strategy for data center technician certifications such as EPI CDCP, Uptime AOS, CNet CDCTP, BICSI and CompTIA, with Stonebridge Data's Ashburn, Virginia campus as the setting: certification paths, how exams work and how to study, facilities reviews of power, cooling, safety, fire and security, IT hardware, cabling and networking, operations, maintenance and incident response, a practical skills checklist, exam strategy, and a full practice exam with a career plan.
DCT-350 12 lessons · 4 h 20 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Data Center Operations
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Compare the main data center technician credential families, including facility, operations, cabling, IT hardware and safety credentials, and choose a first credential to suit a role
- Explain how certification exams are built, delivered and scored, and plan study with a blueprint, spaced repetition and practice tests
- Review the power chain from utility to server, calculate single-phase and three-phase loads and UPS runtime, and recognize redundancy topologies and their traps
- Review cooling and airflow, convert between kW, BTU/h and tons, calculate airflow from heat and temperature difference, and apply ASHRAE inlet ranges and PUE
- Review electrical safety, lockout, PPE, fire detection and suppression, and layered physical security as they appear in exam scenarios
- Review racks, servers and storage, including rack units, weight limits, RAID capacity and fault tolerance, and safe part replacement
- Review structured cabling spaces, copper and fiber media, polarity, loss budgets, testing and basic switching
- Review monitoring systems, alarms, tickets, change management, methods of procedure, DCIM, capacity and availability arithmetic
- Review maintenance types, condition monitoring, reliability measures, emergency procedures, incident response, root cause analysis and shift hand-offs
- Assess practical skills against a checklist with critical, process and quality items, and plan practice and drills to close gaps
- Apply exam strategy: read stems, eliminate options, handle calculations, pace a timed exam and review answers
- Sit and analyze a full practice exam by topic and cause of error, and write a career plan with credentials and renewal dates
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 20 min total · final exam
- 1 Certification paths for data center technicians 19 min · quiz
- 2 How certification exams work and how to study 19 min · quiz
- 3 Facilities review: power 21 min · quiz
- 4 Facilities review: cooling and airflow 23 min · quiz
- 5 Facilities review: safety, fire and physical security 23 min · quiz
- 6 IT hardware review: racks, servers and storage 22 min · quiz
- 7 Cabling and networking review 23 min · quiz
- 8 Operations review: monitoring, change management and DCIM 23 min · quiz
- 9 Maintenance and incident response review 26 min · quiz
- 10 Practical skills checklist 20 min · quiz
- 11 Practice exam strategy 24 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: a full practice exam and a career plan 17 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Review and strategy for data center technician certifications such as EPI CDCP, Uptime AOS, CNet CDCTP, BICSI and CompTIA, with Stonebridge Data's Ashburn, Virginia campus as the setting: certification paths, how exams work and how to study, facilities reviews of power, cooling, safety, fire and security, IT hardware, cabling and networking, operations, maintenance and incident response, a practical skills checklist, exam strategy, and a full practice exam with a career plan.