New SNIA CoursePaks

To purchase Training CoursePak DvDs for the SNIA Technology Elective Exams visit http://coursepaks.snia.org or contact Erin Weiner Erin.Weiner@snia.org at the SNIA Technology Center for availability. Price: $29.95 USD.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

This course is the foundation workshop for all of SNIA’s certification exams (S10-101, 200, and 300). The course provides a foundational, vendor-neutral introduction to storage networking concepts, technologies, and solutions. Students will explore fundamental storage concepts, disk technology, storage architectures, storage management, and storage and networking protocols such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCIP and iFCP. Key solutions including Data Sharing, Networked Attached Storage (NAS), Disaster Recovery preparation, Extended SANs, Business Continuity, Backup and Recovery, and Storage Consolidation will be presented and discussed.

This course has been carefully constructed to provide the student with an overall knowledge and technical skills to work as a team member to implement storage network solutions. This involves understanding of storage networking concepts, ability to explain and recognize key storage networking components and technologies, familiarity with cross-industry, standard configuration tools, ability to do simple storage network backups, recoveries and business continuance.

This course will cover Fibre Channel specific topics for the day to day management of a storage networking environment and data center. This course will not cover basic concepts and technologies or detailed developer topics. This course focuses on the objectives defined for the SNIA Storage Networking Management/Administration exam (S10-200) which has been carefully constructed to certify that the successful candidate has the knowledge necessary to fulfill their responsibilities as a FC Storage Administrator. The exam objectives were derived from a SNIA sanctioned Job Task Analysis(JTA). The JTA was structured to determine the skills needed by a Storage Administrator.

This workshop is designed to prepare the student for the SNIA Certified Systems Engineer exam (S10-200). The course provides a comprehensive review of the processes, technologies, and solutions dealt with in day-to-day management and administration of storage networks as defined by the SNIA Storage Networking. This course does not cover basic concepts and technologies.