Certified Data Center Facilities Operations Manager

Managing the facilities of today’s high-end and high-availability data centers is an extremely demanding and complex task which is often underestimated. There is often very little appreciation and understanding of the complexities of managing today’s mission-critical data centers where downtime is not an option, especially since many of the data centers are operating at, or near, their design limits. Operations management at the facilities layer makes all the difference. Even a data center designed to the highest redundancy level as per the ANSI/TIA-942 standard could still experience many unscheduled downtime events due to poor planning, operations, maintenance and management processes.

The CDFOM® (Certified Data Center Facilities Operations Manager) course is a three-day course which will enable data center managers to gain in-depth knowledge of managing data center operations from planning to monitoring and reporting. This course breaks down the complexity of managing a mission-critical high-availability data center facility into manageable and systematic processes. Not only are the topics covered based on international standards, the course includes best-practises by seasoned data center professionals with many years’ experience managing global data center facilities. The CDFOM® is an intensive course packed with a lot of information which brings tremendous value to the participants, enabling them to improve the operations of their data center. The course is fully aligned with the DCOS® (Data Center Operations Standard).

Audience Profile

The primary audience for this course is someone who works, or has ambition to work, in a leadership role in data center operations such as a data center facilities manager, data center operations manager, who has the responsibility to achieve and improve the high-availability and manageability of the data center operations. 

Course Benefits

Perform the needs analysis translating business requirements to data center services

Set-up and manage the data center operations team

Implement and monitor safety- and security practices

Identify a suitable maintenance program for the data center facility and its equipment

Select the appropriate policies and procedures required for data center operations

Monitor the data center availability, capacity and capability

Manage and implement basic data center projects

Set-up and implement an environmental sustainability program

Select an appropriate back-up site to support organizational resilience

Identify and respond to risk in the data center

Manage and support the document life cycle

Create a basic budget proposal

Select and manage vendors and measure their performance

Manage data center assets

Course Syllabus

Service Level Management 

Needs analysis 

Capability assessment 

Service portfolio 

Service catalogue 

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) 

Availability measurement 

Data points in SLA

Service reporting 

Complaint procedure

Customer satisfaction measurement 

Service Improvement Process (SIP)

SLA content

Operational issues

Organization chart

Roles and responsibilities

Skills matrix

Contingency / backup roles

Shift management

Performance management 

Career development 

Training and assessment

Job rotation 

Succession planning 

Disciplinary program

Safety policies and regulations 

Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S)

Safety awareness training

Permit to Work (PTW)

Lock-out / Tag-out

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) 

Testing and tagging of equipment 

Emergency preparedness and response

Reporting of safety issues

Reviews / internal audit / external audit

Security policies and procedures

Security standards and guidelines

Security staff

Security awareness

Security incident management 

Disciplinary program

Reviews, internal and external audits

Maintenance policies and procedures

Various maintenance programs

Outsourcing of maintenance activities 

Maintenance contract options 

Warranty 

Maintenance schedule 

Service situations

Spart part management 

Contamination control

Policies and procedures for data center operations

Service operations and the daily data center operations

Monitoring requirements

Escalation procedures

Reporting

Trend analysis

Reviews

Project management

Project organization

Project manager

Project phases

The importance of sustainability

Sustainability policies 

Environmental management 

Power efficiency indicators ‐

Waste management ‐

Water management

ICT utilisation management 

Environmental performance measurements

Renewable energy factor (REF)

Business continuity 

Data center facility options 

Business Impact Analysis  

Type of facility  

Human resources 

Facility, equipment and consumables

Management commitment 

Coordination, collaboration and integration 

Compliance 

Risk management 

Document management 

Financial management 

Vendor management 

Asset management

Exam

Attendees will take a 1-hour CDCP® exam. The exam is 40 questions, multiple-choice, closed-book. The passing mark is 27 out of 40. 

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