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S4003 - Storage Architect – Assessment, Planning and Design - 5 Days

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Course Summary	This course highlights the process of storage assessment, planning, and design in vendor neutral terms. It covers the discipline of assessment and the art of matching business requirements to storage capabilities. Using a rational format, it discusses the underlying science of calculating capacity and art of performance modeling. It then integrates requirements, capabilities, and science facilitating real solutions. The setting is practical and applied with the goal of helping students do their tasks and provide leadership within the storage team to create business value.
Course Objectives	The primary objective of this course is to develop technical knowledge and skills required to effectively design storage infrastructure using current and emerging technologies. It will also help you to ask the right questions, both business and technical. The course provides a set of practical approaches required to help you lead the storage team. Delivery of objectives is in the context of application, data, and storage components. Objectives include:
	Assess Plan	Design Troubleshoot
Audience	The Storage Architect is an emerging role possessing the incredible opportunity to do today’s work with a vision of tomorrow. Storage Architects draw from their experience to standardize processes, establish administrative tasks, monitor thresholds, and set data collection policies, recovery tasks, security levels, and troubleshooting steps. This course is for everyone responsible for the assessment, planning, and design; including those responsible for top tier technical support of new and existing storage products and services; this is typically limited to experienced development, administration, implementation, delivery, support, and management staff. Staff members required to complete the internationally recognized SNIA S10-300 Storage Assessment, Planning & Design examination will find this course essential.
Prerequisites	S4001 Storage Network Foundations, S4002 Hands-on SAN Management and Administration. Strong IT literacy, with at least five years experience in IT and two years in Storage Operations. Advanced computer skills and knowledge in at least one operating system. Technical skill developing complex solutions is a plus. Both a non-disclosure agreement and license agreement are required.
Examination	Examinations leading to SNIA CERTIFIED ARCHITECT (SCA) and SNIA CERTIFIED STORAGE NETWORKING EXPERT (SCSN-E) are held on all continents. Possession of this certificate is mandatory for all candidates who wish to reach 'full certification.' Contact the training coordinator for pricing and details at 613-563-NOVA (6682) Ext:267 0r training@novaknowledge.com Nova Networks can also customize this course to topics of your choice which will reduce the course cost. Copyright Statement This site is Copyright © 2007 Nova Networks Inc. Reproduction of any part of this site for personal or commercial purposes without permission is strictly prohibited. The information at this site may be downloaded onto a disk or printed for your personal use provided that you include this copyright notice on each copy and that you make no alterations to any of the pages and do not use any of the information in any other work or publication whatsoever whether the publication is paper based or electronic. No part of the information may be distributed or copied for any commercial purpose.