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Certified TIA-942 Design Consultant (CTDC®)
Your data centres must meet availability, capacity and operational requirements. Connect components and organisational choices to assess risks and needs more effectively. Develop a framework for designing, monitoring and evolving facilities aligned with their intended use.
- Duration
- 3 days 21 hours
- Code
- CTDC Code
- Certification
- CTDC® : Certified TIA-942 Design Consultant Certification
Accredited training for the CTDC® : Certified TIA-942 Design Consultant certification.
Presentation
Data centres are central to many organisations, and an interruption to their operation can cause significant damage. To address this need, ANSI/TIA-942 sets out specific requirements and procedures for data centre design and construction. Its main purpose is to help designers master technical aspects, including architectural, mechanical, electrical and telecommunications specifications, for which common standards may not always exist.
This 3-day course enables IT professionals to learn how to design a data centre in accordance with ANSI/TIA-942. You will gain the key knowledge needed to understand this American standard's requirements and how to implement them. The 12 teaching sections address all types of facilities, from enterprise data centres to third-party multi-tenant data centres, including colocation, managed services and cloud providers.
At the end of the course, you will take an official examination leading to the Certified TIA-942 Design Consultant (CTDC®) certification. Designed for professionals involved in the design, construction, maintenance and operation of mission-critical data centres, it enables you to become a TIA-942-certified design consultant.
Objectives
By the end of the EPI TIA-942 Design Consultant course, you will be able to:
- understand and implement TIA-942 requirements;
- understand the standard's financial implications to avoid over- or under-investment;
- select redundancy levels and infrastructure aligned with customer needs;
- master the factors and requirements involved in high-availability data centre design;
- understand the processes required to establish a data centre under TIA-942;
- understand the relationship between TIA-942 and other international standards;
- pass the CTDC® examination and obtain the Certified TIA-942 Design Consultant credential.
Program
1. Overview of data centre facilities
2. Introduction to TIA-942
- The ANSI/TIA-942 standard life cycle.
- Relationships with other applicable architectural, electrical, mechanical and telecommunications standards.
- Areas covered by TIA-942.
- High-level redundancy definitions.
- Electrical redundancy options, including N and N+1.
- Fault-tolerance techniques.
- Tools for concurrent maintainability.
- Compartmentalisation design.
- Examples of redundancy levels.
3. Data centre space planning
4. Data centre topology design: levels 1, 2, 3 and 4
5. Energy-efficiency best practices
6. Data centre architectural design
- Site and parking location.
- Building construction selection.
- Multi-tenant buildings.
- Vapour barrier selection.
- Roofing selection.
- Calculating live, dead and hanging loads.
- Raised-floor design.
- Suspended or drop-ceiling design.
- Seismic risk assessment.
7. Building security and safety design
- Selecting security measures.
- Selecting CCTV systems.
- Resource allocation.
- Bullet and ballistic resistance testing.
- Lighting selection.
- Building safety.
- Installing signage.
8. Building and room access design
- Security checkpoints.
- Entry lobby.
- Doors and windows.
- Exit corridors.
- Shipping and receiving areas.
9. Incorporating room design requirements
- Administrative office and security room design requirements.
- Operations centre design requirements.
- Restroom and break-room design requirements.
- UPS and battery room design requirements.
- Generator location and fuel storage area design requirements.
- Computer room design requirements.
10. Data centre electrical system design
- Power supply design: substations, supply sources and self-generation.
- High-voltage electrical equipment and switchgear.
- Generators and fuel supply.
- Low-tension/low-voltage switchgear (LT/LV).
- Redundant power supplies: ATS and alternatives.
- UPS systems and batteries.
- Power distribution units (PDUs).
- Static transfer switches (STS).
- Grounding.
- Surge protection systems.
- Emergency power off (EPO).
- Central power monitoring.
- Load banks.
- Power testing and analysis.
- Electrical equipment maintenance: preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance and facilities training plans.
11. Data centre mechanical system design
- Environmental requirements: temperature and humidity.
- Contamination issues: sources, air quality, pressurisation, radio sources, vibration, water ingress and vapour.
- Water-cooled systems.
- Heat rejection systems.
- Chilled water systems.
- Condenser water.
- Make-up water systems.
- Air-cooled systems.
- Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) control systems.
- Plumbing: pipe and conduit routing.
- Fire suppression systems.
- Water leak detection systems.
12. Data centre telecommunications system design
- Telecommunications network topology.
- Defining redundancy levels.
- Communications media and network connectors.
- Cabling design components and pathways.
- Network administration and cable labelling.
- Cable testing.
- Data centre fabrics.
13. CTDC® examination
The online examination lasts 90 minutes. It consists of 60 multiple-choice questions in English and is closed-book. To pass the CTDC® examination, you must achieve 50 correct answers. Your result is provided immediately, and your Certified TIA-942 Design Consultant credential will be available through your personal account.
Audience
This course is intended for:
- professionals working in data centre design, construction, maintenance and management;
- participants planning to attend CTIA® (Certified TIA-942 Internal Auditor) training.
Prerequisites
To attend the EPI TIA-942 Design Consultant course, you should:
- have completed data centre management and design training, such as CDCP® or an equivalent course;
- be able to read and understand English or another available examination language to take the CTDC® examination.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Quiz / multiple-choice questions
Course highlights
Data centre design training delivered by an expert EPI®-certified instructor, with question-and-answer sessions and the CTDC® examination included in our offer.
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