Exam Information

A Brocade Certified SAN Designer is a Brocade Certified Fabric Professional with a detailed understanding of SAN design as well an expertise in implementing complete SAN solutions. To achieve this level of expertise you must first pass the Brocade Certified SAN Designer exam.

Suggested Curriculum: CSD 261: Brocade SAN Designer Web-based Training course

The Brocade Certified SAN Designer v2.6.2 - v4.2 exam tests against the following objectives:

Assess SAN Requirements

Given a specific customer business problem, relate how a SAN installation can meet and solve customer needs.
Given a specific customer business problem, identify what information needs to be collected about their current and target environments to characterize the proposed architecture.
Map existing SAN technologies and protocols to an appropriate solution.
Define the key availability characteristics which need to be identified to determine an appropriate SAN architecture.

Create a SAN Design That Meets Specific Requirements, while Considering Design Trade-offs

Choose or build an appropriate SAN architecture to meet defined manageability requirements.
Build or choose an appropriate SAN architecture to meet defined availability requirements.
Given a topology, classify the availability and distribution model of each Fabric as single or redundant, resilient or non-resilient, and the fault tolerance level.
Define the appropriate device attachment scheme to meet availability/performance requirements.
Build or choose an appropriate SAN architecture to meet defined performance requirements.
Given a particular configuration with performance information evaluate locality, ISL/trunks, quads/octets and link speed to determine the performance and capacity requirements or limitations.
Build or choose an appropriate SAN architecture to meet defined scalability requirements.
Given an initial design and the customer's growth plan, select which topology and switch types are appropriate.
Given a proposed SAN architecture, identify whether hop count restrictions have been violated.
Given a varying set of SAN designs/components and customer requirements, identify which SAN components will need to be integrated.
Given a SAN architecture, identify the most appropriate Brocade switches.
Select the zoning implementation that best meets the SAN design requirements, based on Brocade guidelines.

Translate a SAN Design to a Functional Deployment Plan

Identify what physical connections (power, Ethernet and patch panels) or placements (physical space, rack space, seismic, and UPS) would be required to integrate the SAN into an existing data center.
Integrate the SAN into the existing management network infrastructure.
Select the appropriate equipment, actions, or configurations to complete the MAN/WAN implementation.
Create the appropriate switch configuration planning documentation to implement a given SAN architecture.
Create the appropriate fabric configuration planning documentation to implement a given SAN architecture.
Create the appropriate physical or logical SAN layout documentation required to implement a given SAN architecture.
Create an appropriate logical connection diagram including logical site groupings and topology.
Create a SAN migration plan, given current and targeted SAN architecture.
Document the issues and consequences of a particular SAN/Fabric management application given a set of customer requirements.
Describe specific growth plans for a proposed SAN architecture.

Optimize and Tune SAN Design

Select methodologies to optimize and tune a deployed SAN architecture.

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