EPI Data Center and IT Training Framework

EPI Data Center Training Framework

Data Center facility infrastructure design, management, operations and compliance to standards play an important role in many organizations. Minimizing, or avoiding downtime and improving efficiency are top priorities and hence being able to rely on educated staff becomes a key factor for data center managers all over the world.

The EPI data center training courses are certification courses. Designed for data center professionals, they are mapped in the EPI Data Center Training Framework©. The framework has a foundation training course and 4 tracks:

Foundation:

• Data Center Foundation Certificate (DCFC®)

Design / Build

• Certified Data Center Professional (CDCP®)
• Certified Data Center Specialist (CDCS®)
• Certified Data Center Expert (CDCE®)
• Certified Network Cabling Design Professional (CNCDP®)

Maintenance / Operations

• Certified Data Center Facilities Operations Specialist (CDFOS®)
• Certified Data Center Facilities Operations Manager (CDFOM®)
• Certified Data Center Environmental Sustainability Specialist (CDESS®)

Risk

• Certified Data Center Risk Professional (CDRP®)
• Certified Data Center Migration Specialist (CDMS®)

Standards / Compliance

• Certified TIA-942 Design Consultant (CTDC®)
• Certified TIA-942 Internal Auditor (CTIA®)
• Certified TIA-942 Lead Auditor (CTLA®)

EPI IT Training Framework

The EPI IT Training Framework© is the ­first and only vendor-neutral competency-based IT Training Framework in the world for IT professionals to keep up-to-date and remain relevant in this fast-paced and increasingly complex industry. It is also the ­first and only IT Training Framework aligned to the European e-Competence Framework (e-CF).

The EPI IT Training Framework© offers a career track at three levels:

• Certi­fied IT Operator (CITO)
• Certi­fied IT Manager (CITM)
• Certified IT Director (CITD)

An IT professional can enter the track at any level upon meeting the pre-requisite on number of years’ experience.

Key Benefits

• Career building blocks for global IT professionals
• Vendor-neutral syllabus delivers truly impartial knowledge about the technologies out there
• Based on leading IT industry standards and frameworks delivering skills and knowledge that are aligned to global best practises and standards
• Content developed by EPI, an established global education provider known for its professionalism, assuring quality content accumulated from experts in the field
• Certication accredited by an established independent and globally recognized body – EXIN, which accords participant with global recognition upon achieving CITO/CITM/CITD credential(s)
• Aligned with e-CF, a competency benchmark applicable worldwide and used by over 300 large organizations, CITO/CITM/CITD is validation of the IT professional’s competences that is easily identiable and applicable globally
• Competency-based learning deliver skills that are practical and can be applied immediately after completion of training