Introduction
  • Why is this training unique?
Data Centers
  • What to Expect in This Section
  • Overview of Data Centers
  • Advantages of Data Centers
  • Data Centers Tiers
  • What do you Know About Data Centers?
  • Let's Summarize This Chapter
A Real Data Center Visit and Tour
  • What to Expect in This Section
  • An Interview with a Director of a Data Center
  • A Data Center Tour
  • Visiting the IO Data Center
  • Let's Summarize This Chapter.
Racks and Cabinets
  • What to Expect in This Section
  • Racks and Modules
  • A Free Standing Data Center Rack
  • A Silent Rack?
  • A Wall-Mounted Rack
  • Let's Summarize This Chapter.
Cabling and Professional Cable Tester
  • What to Expect in This Section
  • What you Really Need to Know About Cables and Standards
  • Tools, Sockets, and Patch Panels
  • Popular Professional Cable and Network Testers
  • Our First Lab: Wiremaps and Broken Cables
  • Do you Know Enough About Cables?
  • Let's Summarize This Chapter.
Real World Labs - Cable Testers and Analyzers
  • What to Expect in This Section
  • Fluke LinkRunner in action
  • Testing a Cisco and HP Switch
  • Let's Play with VLANs and Trunks
  • Trunks and DHCP
  • Use a Mobile Phone to Help you Test a Cable and Network
  • Let's Summarize This Chapter.
How to Certify a Network
  • What to Expect in This Section
  • Introducing Fluke and IdealNetworks devices
  • Performance Tests: Return Loss, NEXT, PSNEXT...
  • Testing a Cat 5e Network using Fluke DTX 1800
  • Testing a Broken Network Cable
  • Introducing Fluke DSX 5000
  • How to Certify Your Network
  • Reports and Results of Network Tests
  • Let's Summarize This Chapter.
Bonus Data Center Videos and Tours
  • The History of Data Centers and Services - Part 1
  • The History of Data Centers and Services - Part 2
  • The History of Data Centers and Services - Part 3
  • For More Advanced Students - Parameters and Software to Manage a Data Center
  • Web Portals for DC Clients
Bonus Videos
  • The Physical Layer
  • Basics of the Cisco CLI
  • Network Cables
  • CCNA Real World Project - An Quick Look at a Rack