This vendor neutral test will validate that the successful candidate has knowledge of storage technology and concepts. The test covers data management and storage systems, components and technologies, networking, business continuity and replication, virtualization, file and content management, performance and protocols.
Audience: This vendor neutral track is for all audiences interested in storage technology. Junior IT professionals looking to carve out a career path with a focus on storage, and IT professionals who seek to expand their knowledge on storage would be ideal candidates for this track. Also, college and university students and recent graduates would gain a head start in their IT careers by gaining this Storage Technology certification.
Passing Score: 66%
Test questions: 50
Test duration: 60 minutes; 90 minutes for non-English speaking countries
Cost: US $125 or equivalent in local currency.
Exam Registration Instructions
The exam is available to take at most Prometric testing centers worldwide. For more information on test centers and to register for Hitachi Data Systems exams, please visit www.prometric.com/hitachi.
| IT Infrastructure |
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| Describe the types of storage demands in the marketplace today. |
| Identify storage issues and data centre infrastructure challenges. |
| Illustrate ways to achieve energy efficient and ecologically aware storage implementation. |
| Storage and Storage Networking Components |
| Identify storage networking components |
| Recognize data storage HDD components |
| Describe types of disk interface |
| Storage Technologies |
| Identify different RAID technologies |
| Identify different caching technologies |
| Storage Architecture and Protocols |
| Demonstrate understanding of DAS Architecture |
| Demonstrate understanding of NAS Architecture |
| Demonstrate understanding of SAN Architecture |
| Demonstrate understanding of FC and iSCSI protocols |
| Storage Networking |
| Demonstrate understanding of networking concepts. |
| Define networking terms |
| Describe storage networking protocols |
| Identify SAN zoning techniques |
| Business Continuity and Replication |
| Describe the benefits of data replication |
| Identify in-system replication benefits and applications |
| Identify remote replication benefits and applications |
| Demonstrate understanding of the 2 key resilience metrics |
| Describe datacenter replication strategies |
| Virtualization |
| Identify storage virtualization methods, types and techniques. |
| Demonstrate understanding of industry defined tiered storage environments |
| Describe industry defined thin provisioning concepts |
| Identify Storage Logical Partitioning techniques |
| File and Content |
| Identify file, objects, and metadata |
| Identify Life Cycle Management strategies |
| Identify Content Management benefits |
| Storage Management |
| Define Storage Management strategies |
| Identify storage performance criteria |
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