ISMV5: Information Storage and Management V5

Course Information

Course Name

ISMV5: Information Storage and Management V5

Exam code

D-ISM-FN-23

Duration

5 Days

Certification

Dell Information Storage and Management Foundations 2023Associate – Information Storage and Management Version (DCA-ISM)

Overview

This unique course provides a comprehensive mastery of the various storage infrastructure components and options in a modern data center environment. Participants will learn to apply storage-related technologies in a fast-changing and complex IT environment due to the adoption of new technologies such as cloud, edge computing, Big Data, IoT, AI/ML, and 5G. This course covers intelligent storage systems, networking technologies, business continuity solutions, information security, and storage infrastructure management. The course content takes an open approach to describe all the concepts and technologies, which are further illustrated and reinforced with Dell product examples.

The training prepares the learner for the Dell Technologies Proven Professional Information and Storage and Management Version 5.0 associate-level certification exam (DEA-1TT5).

Audience Profile

This course is intended for:

• Experienced IT professionals directly managing storage infrastructure

• IT professionals seeking to better understand the role of storage infrastructure in the modern data center

• Students and professionals considering a career in the storage industry

• Organization-wide IT teams responsible for planning, designing, deploying, managing, or leveraging storage infrastructure

Prerequisites

To successfully complete this course, a student should have:

• A basic understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking

• Participants with experience in specific segments of storage infrastructure would also be able to assimilate the course material

At Course Completion

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe business drivers of digital transformation.

• Describe modern data center infrastructure and its elements.

• Explain intelligent storage systems and their types.

• Evaluate various storage networking technologies and approaches.

• Describe software-defined storage and networking.

• Articulate business continuity and data protection solutions (replication, backup, migration, and archiving).

• Describe storage infrastructure security and management processes.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Information Storage

• Digital data and its types

• Key characteristics of data center

• Business drivers of digital transformation

Module 2: Business Drivers of Digital Transformation

• Cloud Computing

• Big Data and AI/ML

• IoT, Edge Computing, and 5G

Module 3: Modern Data Center Environment

• Types of compute system, hypervisor, VM, and containers

• Applications, types of storage and network

• Software-defined Data Center

• Modern Data Center Architecture, CI/HCI

Module 4: Intelligent Storage Systems

• Types and components of intelligent storage systems

• RAID

• Storage provisioning and tiering

Module 5: Block, File, and Object-based Storage System

• Block storage system components

• Scale-up and Scale-out NAS

• Features and components of Object storage system

• Unified storage system

Module 6: Storage Area Network – FC SAN

• FC SAN Architecture

• FC topologies and zoning

• SAN virtualization

Module 7: IP SAN, FCoE, and NVMe-oF

• iSCSI components, protocol stack, and VLAN

• FCIP connectivity, protocol stack, and FCoE

• NVMe-oF

Module 8: Software Defined Storage and Network

• Key attributes of SDS, SDS architecture

• SDN architecture, benefits

Module 9: Business Continuity

• Business continuity overview

• Fault tolerant IT infrastructure

Module 10: Data Protection

• Data replication

• Backup and recovery

• Data deduplication

• Data archiving and migration

Module 11: Storage Infrastructure Security

• Introduction to information security

• Storage security domains and threats

• Key security controls

Module 12: Storage Infrastructure Security

• Introduction to Information Security

• Storage security domains and threats

• Key security controls

Module 13: Storage Infrastructure Management

• Introduction to storage infrastructure management

• Operations management

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