The Certified Data Centre Design Professional™ qualification brings together the essential components of proficiency to independently certify that an individual is professional, highly skilled, knowledgeable and more than an expert; a qualified person with a contemporary standards compliant and European code of conduct visualization of what is required to create preeminent Data Centres and best practice to manage and maintain them.

This BTEC qualification from Edexcel combines Certified Data Centre Design, Data Centre Power, Data Centre Cooling, Data Centre Efficiency and Data Centre Management as the only complete Data Centre qualification available worldwide. The program is intended to furnish Data Centre Professionals with depth and breadth of learning and to provide independently verified proof of competency. The unit based structure of the overall qualification allows flexibility to take each unit at your convenience over a period of time and to acquire an additional core qualification in Certified Data Centre Design.

It doesn’t stop there however; two optional units, Data Centre Technician and TPMA Telecommunications Project Management provide two additional qualifications; one BTEC and one from TPMA. That completes the package to give an outstanding Professional level 5 BTEC qualification from Edexcel that provides an unbeatable industry recognized and endorsed level of capability that places you ahead of your competition.

• Facilities and location
• Raised floor design
• Rack location
• Power supplies
• Cooling
• Earthing
• Cable containment
• Fire design
• Fire - Cabling
• Copper cabling components
• Optical cabling components
• Preterminated cabling
• Optical systems
• Cable system design
• Security, access control, CCTV & BMS
• Project management issues
• Data centre networks

• The Electicity Supply
• Distribution in the Data Centre
• Standby Power
• Methods of reducing power consumption

• Review of Power & Cooling
• Regulation review and the impact on data centres
• Maximising exisiting investment by getting the most out of existing hot-aisle/cold-aisle systems
• Coefficiency of performance of CRACs
• Heat pumps and Carnot Efficiency
• Performance factors of air to air heat pumps
• Dynamics and problems of air flow
• Software simulation, advantages and dangers
• Comparison of highly-density cooling techniques
• R744 refrigerant comparisons

• Power trends – an overview
• Cooling trends – an overview
• Power Usage Efficiency (PUE)
• Data Centre infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE)
• The network critical infrastructure
• Modelling of data centre electrical efficiency
• Implementing data centre electrical efficiency

• Managing the Data Centre Facilities
• Handover of the data centre facility
• Establishing the design limits
• Controlling the environment
• Maintenance practices
• Data centre inventory and documentation
• Installation practices
• Monitoring and ongoing administration of the facility
• Meeting the needs of regulators and 3rd parties
• Testing for recovery and resilience
• Backup and equipment recovery
• Access and security