NCDA Boot Camp (NCDABC)

Network Professionals seeking the NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA) certification.

Introduction to NetApp Products Web Based Training

By the end of this course you should be able to:

• Identify the various components of a NetApp storage environment
• Install and perform the setup configuration of Data ONTAP
• Perform basic administration on a storage system
• Explain and configure physical and logical storage
• Identify and configure client protocols
• State virtualization techniques available in Data ONTAP
• Describe Snapshot copies and space consumption in Data ONTAP
• Discuss backup methods available in Data ONTAP
• Configure and administer client-server relationships in NFS environments
• Configure, administer, and troubleshoot storage systems in CIFS environments
• Collect and analyze performance data to assist with troubleshooting storage system hardware, operating systems, network connections, NFS configuration files, and options
• Define the components of a SAN environment and explain how LUNs relate to the storage system
• Describe the Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI SAN multipathing options for Windows and Linux-based operating systems
• List the storage-system and data availability methods
• Configure and administer SnapRestore®, asynchronous and synchronous SnapMirror®, MetroCluster™, SnapVault®, and Open Systems SnapVault technologies

This 10-day boot camp will prepare you prepare for the NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA) Data ONTAP 7-Mode exams. Through lectures and labs, learn about the features and functions of the NetApp® Data ONTAP® 7-Mode operating system and about network-attached storage (NAS) administration and SAN configuration. This course covers 153 and 163 (Data ONTAP 7.3), 154 (Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode) and 190 (Data ONTAP 8.1 7-Mode) NCDA exams.