Certified Data Centre Specialist Course Overview

Last Updated: 11 06 2025

Certified Data Centre Specialist (CDCS) courses is designed for IT professionals who are demanding to deepen their knowledge of advanced data centres design, operation and maintenance. This comprehensive training provides a strategic understanding of major data center elements such as power, cooling, cabling, security, redundancy and environmental controls - Participants are equipped to efficiently manage complex data centers infrastructure.

The course starts by covering core design principles, then moves on to modules on capacity planning, power distribution, thermal management and high-availability architecture. In This course Participants will learn to design a flexible data center environment that complies with international standards. In this course, Learners will explore Practical scenarios and case studies are integrated throughout the course to strengthen knowledge in areas such as fire suppression, security systems, advanced monitoring and failure response strategies.

In this course covers a specific concept on risk evaluation and mitigation equips learners to manage operating hazards, while focusing on energy efficiency aligns with modern sustainability goals. The course emphasizes the best practices for operational management and auditing to ensure continuous service availability.

This program is given with one hand approach, ensuring that learners can translate theoretical concepts into the real-world applications. SSDN Technologies, widely recognized as one of the Best IT training companies, courses that bridge the knowledge gap between legacy systems and data center strategies prepared for future. 

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Learning Options for You

  • Live Training (Duration : 24 Hours)
  • Per Participant

Fee: On Request

Course Prerequisites

Participants must hold a valid CDCP certificate (HK258S) in order to be able to register for the CDCS Training.

Learning Objectives

After completion of the course, the attendee will be able to:

  • Understand the design life cycle of data centers and the stages involved.
  • Discuss the data center requirements ingreat level of detail with vendors,
  • suppliers, and contractors to ensure that these requirements are met.
  • Validate design plans, quotes, and offers proposed by vendors/contractors.
  • Understand redundancy levels for both the data center design/setup
  • and maintenance.
  • Understand the various building considerations such as bullet proofing, mitigation of seismic activity, fire ratings, and thermal stability.
  • Understand how to install a raised floor that meets requirements, avoiding misalignment, level differences, and leakage.
  • Understand how to read a Single Line Electrical Diagram to identify and avoid the most common design issues.
  • Choose the correct UPS and parallel configuration, learn, and avoid classic parallel installation mistakes.
  • Understand how to calculate battery banks, validate offered configurations to ensure they meet requirements.
  • Understand what distance to keep to avoid EMF issues for human safety and equipment disturbances.
  • Understand the fundamental cooling setup, CFM, Delta-T and other important factors.
  • Understand contamination factors and limitations.
  • Understand full details of fire suppression options, how to calculate gas content and verify installations.
  • Understand how to measure data center energy efficiency and how to improve it.

Target Audience

The primary audience for this course is an IT, facilities or data centre operations professional working in and around the data centre and having the responsibility to achieve and improve hi availability and manageability of the data centre.

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