COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

This course is the foundation workshop for all of SNIA’s certification exams (S10-100, 200, and 300). It 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 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.

This workshop is designed to prepare the student for the SNIA Certified Architect exam (S10-300). The course will increase the candidate's knowledge of assessments, planning, and design from a storage networking perspective. After completion of this course, the successful candidate will have the knowledge to architect a solution leveraging industry best practices and standards including ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and ITSM (IT Service Management) principles. This course does not cover basic concepts and technologies.