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CTDC® Overview
In three-day CTDC® course, the participant will learn how to design an ANSI/TIA-942 compliant data centre. It will provide a clear understanding of the requirements of the ANSI/TIA-942 Standard and possible implementation variations. This course is well suited for all types of data centres, be it enterprise data centres or multi-tenant, third party data centres such as co-location, managed services and cloud service providers.

Audience
The primary audience for this course are professionals involved with designing, building, maintaining and operating mission critical data centres and those who wish to attend the CTIA® (Certified TIA-942 Internal Auditor) course.

Prerequisites
Participants must possess a valid data centre training certificate such as CDCP®  or any other approved equivalent. Please submit a copy of your certificate for verification upon registration for the CTDC® course.

ANSI/TIA-942 Standard
Participants will receive the latest digital copy of the ANSI/TIA-942 Standard, valued at US$510.00. This is a single-user-license document which the participant can access anytime on his/her computing device and can be printed (once). Extensive reference is made to the ANSI/TIA-942 Standard during the training. Therefore participants are required to bring his/her computing device along for the training. 

Course Benefits
After completion of the course the participant will be able to:

• Learn to properly comprehend and apply the ANSI/TIA-942 Standard requirements and guidelines
• Understand the proper intent of the ANSI/TIA-942 Standard to avoid both over- and/or under-investment
• Align the selection of redundancy levels and infrastructure investments to the business requirements.
• Understand the criteria and requirements for a high-availability data centre design and how to effectively establish the data centre from the perspective of the ANSI/TIA-942 Standard
• Understand how the ANSI/TIA-942 Standard relates to various worldwide standards

Course Syllabus

Introduction to Data Centre Facilities

About the ANSI/TIA-942

• Life of the ANSI/TIA-942 Standard
• Relation to other standards
• Architectural
• Electrical
• Mechanical
• Telecommunication
• Areas under scope
• High level redundancy definitions
• Redundancy options (N, N+1 etc.)
• Fault tolerant
• Concurrent maintainability
• Compartmentalisation
• Examples of redundancy levels
   

Data Centre Space Planning

Data Centre Topologies

Recommendations for Energy Efficiency

Architectural

• Site selection
• Parking
• Multi-tenant building
• Building construction
• Vapor barrier
• Roofing
• Floor loading
• Raised flooring
• Suspended/drop ceiling
• Hanging load
• Seismic

Building Security & Safety

• Security
• CCTV
• Staffing
• Bullet/ballistic proofing
• Lighting
• Safety
   

Building and Room Access

• Security checkpoints
• Entry lobby
• Doors and windows
• Exit corridors
• Shipping and receiving areas
   

Room/Area Design Requirements

• Administrative offices
• Security offce
• Operations centre
• Restroom and break room
• UPS/Battery rooms
• Generator and fuel storage area
• Computer room
   

Electrical

• Utility power
• HT/HV switch gear
• Generator and fuel supply
• LT/LV switch gear
• UPS and batteries
• PDU
• STS
• Grounding
• Surge protection
• EPO
• Central power monitoring
• Load banks
• Testing
• Equipment maintenance
   

Mechanical

• Environmental design
• Water cooled systems
• Air cooled systems
• HVAC control systems
• Plumbing
• Fire suppression
• Water leak detection

Telecommunications

• Network topology
• Redundancy level design
• Media and connectors
• Cabling pathways
• Detailed cabling design considerations
• Administration and labeling
• Cable testing
• Data centre fabrics

Exam
Exam: Certified TIA-942 Design Consultant (CTDC®)

The CTDC® exam is a 90 minutes closed-book certification exam consists of 60 multiple-choice questions. Candidates must achieve a minimum of 50 correct answers to pass the exam. 

Certification & Accreditation
Candidates who successfully pass the exam will receive the official ‘Certi­fied TIA-942 Design Consultant’ certificate.  The CTDC® certificate is issued for the ANSI/TIA-942 version current at the time, which the candidate tested for.  The certificate itself does not expire and stays relevant only for the stated ANSI/TIA-942 version.

CTDC® is world-wide accredited by EXIN.