Brocade Certified Fabric Professional 16 Gbps (BCFP) Exam

As a Brocade Certified Fabric Professional, you must be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of Brocade SAN switching, routing, extension platforms and related components, configure and maintain Brocade hardware and software products, troubleshoot and maintain FC routed and extended fabrics and implement adaptive networking components.

Brocade Certified Fabric Professional Exam Topics

The Brocade Certified Fabric Professional exam has these objectives:

Product Features

• Identify advanced product features
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of Brocade Trunking
• Describe licensing options and features

Implementation and Configuration

• Demonstrate knowledge of the different types of Brocade connectivity
• Demonstrate knowledge of implementing fabric security
• Describe implementation of Access Gateway features

SAN Management

• Demonstrate knowledge of using advanced management interfaces
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to gather performance data
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to proactively monitor an existing SAN

Adaptive Networking

• Given a scenario, describe how to use Adaptive Networking in a fabric

FC-FC Routing

• Describe Fibre Channel routed fabrics
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to implement FC-FC routing

Extension Features and Implementation

• Demonstrate knowledge of how to manage FCIP/FC distributed external solutions
• Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of advanced long distance Fibre Channel solutions

Advanced Troubleshooting

• Describe which tools can be used to troubleshoot a complex fabric problem
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to troubleshoot extension, FC routing, and FC network scenarios

• Certification Study Tools

  • BCAF in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.8 MB)

  • BCEFE in a Nutshell Study Guide (3.2 MB)

  • BCFA in a Nutshell 16 Gbps Study Guide (1.9 MB)

  • BCFA in a Nutshell 8 Gbps Study Guide (1.8 MB)

  • BCFCoEP in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.1 MB)

  • BCFD in a Nutshell Study Guide 16 Gbps (768.7 KB)

  • BCFP in a Nutshell 16 Gbps Study Guide (780.4 KB)

  • BCFP in a Nutshell 2010 Study Guide (732.8 KB)

  • BCLE in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.7 MB)

  • BCLP in a Nutshell Study Guide (822.8 KB)

  • BCND in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.2 MB)

  • BCNE in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.4 MB)

  • BCNP in a Nutshell Study Guide (695 KB)

  • BCSPNE in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.4 MB)

• Course Data Sheets

  • AFS 133 Implementing iSCSI with the FC4-16IP Blade (126.4 KB)

  • AFS 137 Introduction to the FC10-6 Director Blade (119.9 KB)

  • AFS 138 Introduction to the Brocade 7600 and FA4-18, Hardware and Software (133.2 KB)

  • AFS 141 Introduction to Brocade Virtual Fabrics (188.2 KB)

  • BiG 100 Introduction to the Brocade iSCSI Gateway (121.4 KB)

  • DCFM 200 Data Center Fabric Manager (220.1 KB)

  • DCX 100 Introduction to DCX Data Center Backbone (109.5 KB)

  • DCX 110 Brocade DCX Data Center Backbone Break and Fix (120.7 KB)

  • EM 101 Introduction to Fabric OS and M-EOS Element Manager (185.5 KB)

  • ENC 101 Introduction to Brocade Encyption (190 KB)

  • ETH 101 Internetworking Fundamentals for Brocade Training (197.4 KB)

  • ETH 503 IronView Network Management (192.1 KB)

  • FC 101 Introduction to Fibre Channel Concepts (188.4 KB)