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EMC Proven Professional Storage Technologist Exam E20-001 NGX

The in-demand IT Certification for IT Professionals with little or no storage experience.

Course Contents:

Stage 1: Introduction to Storage Technology

Stage 2: Storage System Architecture

Stage 3: Physical Disks and RAID Arrays

Stage 4: Intelligent Storage Systems

Stage 5: Network Storage Systems

Stage 6: Fiber Channel Storage Attached Networks

Stage 7: IP SANs and Content Addressed Storage

Stage 8: Information Availability

Stage 9: Replication and Business Continuity

Stage 10: Monitoring and Managing the Data Center

Stage 11: Securing Storage

Stage 12: Storage Virtualisation Technologies

Course Code:

NGX-2

Course Duration:

12 months

Typical Study Hours:

30 - 40 hours

Course Fees:

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Course Demo:

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Study Prerequisite:

IT Professionals who wish to gain data and storage knowledge.

Additional Information for Stage 1:

• Introduction to Storage Technology

  • Recognise how information availability can create a competitive advantage for a business and identify the advantages of networked storage for meeting the challenges of enterprise data management
  • Distinguish between the common storage media devices and the different models for connecting storage devices.
  • Select a data storage solution to meet a given set of business requirements, in a given scenario.
• Identify the core elements of a data center infrastructure and their role in supporting business activities.
• Identify the requirements of storage systems for supporting business activities and recognize the challenges and constraints when managing the storage systems of a data center.

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Additional information for Stage 2:

• Storage System Architecture

  • Recognise how data typically flows within the host environment of a storage system.
  • Select the most appropriate communication protocol to connect a host to its internal storage, in a given scenario.
  • Recognise the key physical and logical components that connect hosts to external storage.
  • Distinguish between the physical and logical components of storage system environments and between the benefits and advantages of the IDE/ATA, SCSI, and Fibre Channel storage interfaces.

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Additional information for Stage 3:

• Physical Disks and RAID Arrays

  • Recognise the role of the key physical components and structures and the logical constructs for organising data on a disk.
  • Recognise the factors that impact the performance of a disk drive and how disk drive reliability is determined.
  • Differentiate between the physical components and the physical structures and logical constructs used to organise and provide access to data on hard disks.
  • Identify the benefits of using a RAID set and differentiate between striping, mirroring, and parity.
  • Select an appropriate configuration for a RAID set, in a given scenario.
  • Determine the most appropriate fault tolerance solution for given scenarios.

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Additional information for Stage 4:

• Intelligent Storage Systems

  • Distinguish between integrated and modular storage systems and between the physical and logical elements of an intelligent storage system.
  • Recognise how cache operates in an intelligent storage system.
  • Recognise the basic architecture and features of the EMC CLARiiON and EMC Symmetrix DMX series storage arrays.
  • Recognise the architecture of an intelligent storage system and how the algorithms for managing cache can determine I/O flow through the storage system.

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Additional information for Stage 5:

• Network Storage Systems

  • Recognise environments that would benefit from a DAS-based solution, and identify the physical components and connectivity options of DAS.
  • Recognise how DAS is managed internally and externally, list the factors that affect DAS performance, and identify the limitations of a DAS storage solution.
  • Identify the benefits and components of NAS, and recognise how file I/O requests are handled in a NAS environment.
  • Differentiate between the issues involved in managing different types of NAS implementation, and identify the appropriate NAS implementation for a given scenario.
  • Determine the appropriate NAS solution for a given enterprise scenario.
  • Describe EMCs implementation of Network Attached Storage.

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Additional information for Stage 6:

• Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks

  • Recognise the features, benefits, and components of a Fibre Channel SAN.
  • Recognise the features of Fibre Channel and understand the role of fabric addressing and fabric logins in providing communication between nodes in a SAN.
  • Distinguish between Fibre Channel topologies.
  • Differentiate between Fibre Channel components and their role in the SAN architecture, and determine the appropriate SAN topology for a scenario.
  • Recognise the activities and considerations involved in managing the SAN environment.
  • Recognise considerations for implementing a SAN environment.
  • Determine the appropriate Fibre Channel SAN storage solution for a given enterprise scenario.
  • Distinguish between the advantages of EMC Connectrix Family Switches and Directors.

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Additional information for Stage 7:

• IP SANs and Content Addressed Storage

  • Recognise the benefits of IP SAN and the three protocol options and deployment models for implementing IP SAN.
  • Recognise the features and characteristics of the common protocols for implementing IP SANs.
  • Identify common applications for IP SAN technology.
  • Identify the features and benefits of Content Addressed Storage (CAS).
  • Recognise the components and processes involved in storing and retrieving CAS data, and the business applications that can benefit from CAS-based solutions.
  • Recognise the features of IP SANs and CAS.
  • Recognise the criteria for an effective information archive and EMC Centeras features and capabilities as an information archiving solution.

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Additional information for Stage 8:

• Information Availability

  • Recognise possible causes of downtime and distinguish between disaster recovery and disaster restart.
  • Identify what's involved in business continuity planning and recognise how to resolve single points of failure to ensure data availability.
  • Identify the key features of EMC PowerPath, and recognise how it achieves transparent recovery.
  • Recognise components of the backup and recovery process and identify considerations for implementing a backup and recovery solution.
  • Distinguish between backup and recovery types.
  • Distinguish between backup topologies and media types, and recognise how to manage the backup process.
  • Determine the appropriate backup and recovery strategy for a scenario.
  • Recognise the capabilities of EMCs NetWorker backup and recovery solution.

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Additional information for Stage 9:

• Replication and Business Continuity

  • Recognise the factors to be considered to ensure consistency when replicating file systems and databases.
  • Recognise the features and functionality of host-based and array-based local replication technologies.
  • Determine the most appropriate local replication technology for a given scenario,
  • Recognise the functionality of the EMC TimeFinder/Mirror and SnapView local replication solutions.
  • Recognise the advantages and disadvantages of different host-based remote replication technologies.
  • Select the appropriate array-based remote replication solution for a scenario.
  • Determine the most appropriate remote replication solution for a given scenario.
  • Recognise the functionality of the SRDF/Synchronous and MirrorView/A remote replication solutions.

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Additional information for Stage 10:

• Monitoring and Managing the Data Center

  • Recognise what's involved in monitoring the data center.
  • Recognise the importance of end-to-end monitoring of the data center and understand the impact of component failures.
  • Recognise the challenges involved in data center monitoring and describe the industry standards for monitoring and managing a data center.
  • Recognise the architecture of the EMC ControlCenter and the roles of various components.
  • Identify the component data center management tasks.
  • Determine the individual tasks that need to be performed to meet the requirements of a given data center management scenario.
  • Recognise what's involved in implementing an enterprise-wide ILM strategy.
  • Identify a subset of data center management tasks that can be performed using EMC ControlCenter.

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Additional information for Stage 11:

• Securing Storage

  • Identify the principles of security in a storage environment.
  • Recognise different security controls and services.
  • Describe the SNIA and @stake security models.
  • Identify threats and controls for application access security.
  • Identify threats and controls for management access and BURA.
  • Recognise EMC information security products and services.
  • Identify security principles in a data storage environment.

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Additional information for Stage 12:

• Storage Virtualisation Technologies

  • Identify the principles of virtualisation.
  • Recognise the multi-level approach to storage virtualisation.
  • Identify the four major challenges of storage virtualisation.
  • Recognise in-band and out-of-band Virtualisation Architectures.
  • Recognise the characteristics and benefits of block-level storage virtualisation.
  • Describe file-level virtualisation technologies and functionality.
  • Identify security principles in a data storage environment.

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