Certified Data Centre Specialist
With few exceptions, modern enterprises depend heavily on IT to deliver business-critical services often in real-time and directly to end users. This makes it essential that mission-critical data centres are designed, maintained, and operated with maximum availability, efficiency, and resilience in mind.
Yet in practice, many data centres still fall short of meeting the increasingly demanding requirements for availability, capacity, safety, and energy efficiency. This challenge is further intensified in high-compute environments, where advanced workloads such as AI, HPC, and large-scale data analytics drive up power densities and place significant stress on traditional cooling systems. Ensuring thermal performance in such conditions is now just as vital as electrical reliability.
The Certified Data Centre Specialist (CDCS®) is a comprehensive three-day course designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to act as informed, capable counterparts when dealing with data centre design and operations especially in high-demand environments. Participants will be able to evaluate design proposals for accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency, including solutions related to power and cooling infrastructure.
CDCS® is an essential certification for data centre professionals seeking to enhance their technical credibility and decision-making capabilities. It is also a prerequisite for those aiming to attain the elite Certified Data Centre Expert (CDCE®) status.
Audience Profile
The primary audience for this course includes data centre specialists, facilities managers and IT professionals who work in and around data centres and are responsible for ensuring and enhancing their availability and manageability around the data centre and having the responsibility to achieve and improve high-availability and manageability of the data centre.
Course Benefits
Understand the data centre design life cycle, including the distinct stages involved.
Discuss the data centre requirements at a great level of detail with vendors, suppliers and contractors to ensure that these requirements are met.
Validate design documentation, cost quotations, and technical proposals provided by vendors and contractors to confirm compliance with requirements.
Understand redundancy levels for both the data centre design/setup and maintenance.
Understand the various building considerations such as bullet proofing, seismic activity mitigation, fire ratings and thermal stability.
Understand the correct installation practices for raised flooring systems and to prevent issues such as misalignment, level discrepancies, and leakage.
Understand how to read a Single Line Electrical Diagram to e ffectively identify and mitigate common design flaws.
Choose the correct UPS and parallel configuration, while gaining the knowledge required to recognise and avoid typical errors associated with parallel installations.
Understand how to calculate battery banks and assess vendor-proposed configurations to verify compliance with design and performance requirements.
Understand the appropriate separation distances needed to mitigate electromagnetic field (EMF) risks to human health and avoid interference with sensitive equipment.
Understand the fundamental cooling system design, encompassing effeciency metrics, installation prerequisites, airflow rates (CFM), temperature differentials (Delta-T), and other essential performance parameters.
Understand how to evaluate and select advanced liquid cooling solutions that are specifically designed to meet the thermal and operational demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
Understand contamination factors and limitations.
Understand fire suppression systems, including the various available options, methods for calculating gas volume requirements, and procedures for verifying correct system installation.
Understand how to assess data centre energy efficiency using industry-standard metrics, and explore methods to enhance overall energy performance.
Course Syllabus
Exam
The exam is a 90-minute closed book exam, with 60 multiple-choice questions. The candidate requires a minimum of 45 correct answers to pass the exam.
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