Module 01
Data center fundamentals
Rack layout, power paths, cooling, cable management, safety.
Program
Cloud & Data Center
Two halves of one discipline: racks, power, cooling, and cabling on one side; virtualization, storage, and cloud services on the other. You work in both and learn how they connect.
- Duration
- 22 weeks
- Format
- Data center lab + cloud environments
- Entry level
- Foundations required
Outcomes
What you will be able to do.
- Rack, cable, and commission server and storage hardware safely
- Deploy and manage virtual machines, storage, and backups
- Provision cloud compute, networking, and identity resources
- Plan capacity, redundancy, and recovery for real workloads
Curriculum
Module structure.
Module 02
Virtualization & storage
Hypervisors, clustering, shared storage, snapshots, backup design.
Module 03
Cloud infrastructure
Compute, VPC networking, identity, storage tiers, cost awareness.
Module 04
Resilience
High availability, disaster recovery testing, runbooks, change control.
Labs
Representative lab work.
- Commission a rack from empty to running workloads
- Migrate a workload from on-premises virtualization into cloud
- Execute a documented disaster-recovery failover exercise
Tools & platforms
- Hypervisors
- SAN/NAS storage
- Cloud consoles & CLI
- Infrastructure automation
- Backup platforms
Roles to pursue
- Data Center Technician
- Cloud Support Engineer
- Infrastructure Administrator
Role listings are indicative. Completing a program does not guarantee employment or certification.
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Next step
Ask about Cloud & Data Center.
An advisor will confirm prerequisites, upcoming cohort dates, and what your first labs involve.