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Learning Paths
Education planning without the guesswork

Learning Paths are structured roadmaps of courses that lead students to develop a thorough understanding of their selected technologies. They ensure the gradual introduction of complex technologies and challenging concepts with two or three levels of expertise.

Validate your knowledge
Our learning paths are conveniently aligned to EMC Proven Professional Certifications. If you choose to take the next step, you already have the knowledge as well as access to the supporting study materials for exam preperation.

Purchasing Learning Path ( ValuePaks and Video ValuePaks)
Learning Paths are conveniently pre-packaged as ValuePaks and Video ValuePaks so that you can purchase the complete curriculum at a discount.

Learning Path/ValuePak Focus on: Suited for:
Avamar Administration
  • Global Data Deduplication at the source
For any storage professional who deploys and manages EMC Avamar solutions. This curriculum offers knowledge and Lab experiences required for credible storage professionals to administer EMC Avamar
data-deduplication technology.

Backup and Recovery
  • EMC NetWorker 7.3
  • Backup to Disk
  • Virtual Tape Library
For any IT professional who deploys and manages EMC NetWorker-based backup solutions. This curriculum offers the required knowledge and lab experience to manage traditional backup environments. In addition, LAN/SAN/NAS-based disk backup, virtual tape libraries, and automated replication are detailed. The knowledge and skills gained through this Learning Path will enable professionals to fully leverage EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions.

CAS Essentials
  • Centera
For any storage professional who deploys and manages a Centera content-addressed storage (CAS) environment. This curriculum provides required knowledge and hands-on lab experience to leverage Centera Virtual Pools, Advanced Retention Capabilities and other features to create an active archive to deliver superior TCO, a higher level of security, and resource reconciliation in an overall tiered storage environment.

CLARiiON Solutions
  • CLARiiON provisioning
  • SAN connectivity and configuration
  • CLARiiON Management
  • SnapView, MirrorView, and SAN Copy
For any storage professional who deploys and manages CLARiiON SAN environments. The Management curriculum offers the required knowledge and lab experience to manage an end-to-end SAN environment including, Windows and UNIX servers, SAN switches, and CLARiiON storage systems using Navisphere, Access Logix, and other management tools. The Business Continuity curriculum addresses local and remote data replication requirements through exposure to SnapView, MirrorView and SAN Copy. The knowledge and skills gained through this Learning Path will enable professionals to fully leverage high-availability CLARiiON solutions.

DiskXtender
  • Windows 2003 environment
  • File management policies
  • Media and hardware management
  • Migrating files to Centera and NAS
For any storage professional who deploys and manages EMC DiskXtender in mid-size Microsft Windows environments, this curriculum provides the knowledge and LAB experiences required to fully exploit the capabilities of automated file archiving solution. Configure disk, optical, tape and EMC Centera as secondary storage, migrate data and reduce primary storage acquisition costs and management overhead, and backup and recovery requirements.

EMC Disk Library
  • DL210 to DL6300
  • up to v 3.01emulation code
  • Active Engine Failover
  • Auto Archive
  • Remote Copy
  • Embedded Storage Node / Media Server
For any storage professional who deploys and manages EMC Disk Library as part of corporate backup and recovery environments, this curriculum provides the knowledge and LAB experiences required to fully exploit the capabilities of our industry-leading open systems Disk Libraries. EMC Live Virtual Classroom provides live instructor-peer interactions as well as access to actual LAB environment via internet connection.

EMC Smarts
  • Service Assurance Manager
  • IP Administrator
  • Global Console
For any networking professional who deploys and manages a EMC Smarts resource management solution. This curriculum offers the required knowledge and exposure to EMC Smarts architecture and most commonly leveraged software components to start building and leveraging intelligent, automated IT infrastructure management solutions that can maximize availability and performance of mission-critical IT networking and infrastructures.

EmailXtender and EmailXaminer
  • EMC EmailXtender
  • EMC EmailXaminer
  • Exchange and Notes
For any storage professional who deploys and manages EMC EmailXtender messaging solutions. This curriculum offers the required knowledge and lab experiences to fully exploit the capabilities of the software within Microsoft Exchange and/or Lotus Notes environments to establish intelligent, cost-effective archiving and retrieving of e-mail data supporting legal discovery and regulatory compliance requirements (EmailXaminer).

Networked Storage - NS Solution
  • Celerra NS Series and CNS
  • UNIX and Windows
For any storage professional curriculum who deploys and manages a Celerra NAS environment. This curriculum provides the required knowledge and hands-on lab experience to fully exploit the features, functions, and availability of Celerra file server configurations to support CIFS, NFS, and multi-protocol file system environments with considerations for data replication within a NAS environment.

Storage Area Network (SAN)
  • SAN connectivity and configuration
  • Multi-vendor switch configuration
For any storage professional who deploys and manages multi-site, multi-vendor SAN environments. This curriculum offers the required knowledge and lab experiences to configure and manage highly available SANs built on CLARiiON, Symmetrix DMX, and multi-vendor switches and heterogeneous servers. Centralized management software along with native switch tools are used to demonstrate best practices for monitoring, tuning, and scaling various SAN topologies. The knowledge and skills gained through this Learning Path will enable professionals to fully leverage the current SAN environment and effectively scale their infrastructure to meet future demands.

Rainfinity
  • Global File Virtualization
  • Rainfinity into NAS
  • CIFS and NFS
  • UNIX/LINUX
This curriculum is intended for any storage professinal who deploys and manages EMC Rainfinity Global File Virtualization solutions. This curriculum offers the required knowledge and lab experiences needed to fully exploite the capablilites of the application within a NAS environment.

RecoverPoint
  • Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
  • Continuous Remote Replication (CRR)
  • Heterogeneous SAN
  • Consitency groups
This curriculum is intended for any storage professional who deploys and manages EMC RecoverPoint CRR & CDP solutions. This curriculum offers the required knowledge and lab experiences needed to fully exploit the capabilities of the solution in complex SAN environments.

Storage Management
  • ControlCenter
  • VisualSAN and VisualSRM
  • Storage Scope FLR
For any storage professional who deploys and manages storage resource management and reposting solutions. This curriculum offers required knowledge and lab experiences to fully exploit the capabilities of the EMC ControlCenter suite of software including StorageScope, and resource management and reporting solutions. This curriculum offers required knowledge and LAB experiisualSRM in establishing centralized storage management and reporting capabilities. Performance considerations, alert management, and framework integration are addressed in the follow-on courses.

Symmetrix Business Continuity
  • TimeFinder and SRDF
  • Local and remote replication
For any storage professional who deploys and manages local and/or remote replication solutions in a Symmetrix DMX-based open systems environment. This curriculum offers required knowledge and lab experiences to fully exploit the capabilities of TimeFinder/SRDF software in variety of business continuity and disaster recovery scenarios. Replication technology integration with specific applications such as Oracle, SQL, and Exchange are addressed in the follow-on courses.

Mainframe Business Continuity
  • TimeFinder and SRDF
  • Local and remote replication
For any storage professional who deploys and manages local and/or remote replication solutions in Symmetrix DMX-based z/OS mainframe environments. This curriculum offers required knowledge and lab experiences to fully exploit the capabilities of the TimeFinder/SRDF suite of replication software in variety of business continuity and disaster recovery scenarios. SRDF/Star configuration is addressed in the follow-on courses.

Partner-Only Offerings

Avamar Administration, Installation and Configuration
  • Global Data Deduplication at the source
For Velocity ASN PS partners who implements EMC Avamar solutions. This curriculum offers knowledge and Lab experiences required for credible storage professionals to install and configure EMC Avamar data-deduplication technology.

CLARiiON AX4-5 and CX-10c,20c,20f QuickStart
  • CLARiiON CX-10c,20c,20f
  • PowerPath
  • Windows SAN
  • Interactive Installation Guide (IIG)
  • Storage Technology Foundations
CLARiiON CX3-10c,20c,20f QuickStart curriculum provides education and certification required for new ASN partner individuals who are responsible for implementing CLARiiON CX301oc,20c,20f storage systems in Windows environments. This curriculum is delivered fully in self-study e-Learning mode to eliminate the need for travel and to minimize the time away from your job. This solution includes associate level certification curriculum and an online assessment, enabling formal validation and recognition expected for ASN partner technical resources.

  • Celerra NS20 Only
  • Celrra Startup Assistant (CSA)
  • Storage Technology Foundations
NS20 QuickStart curriculum provides education and certification required for new ASN partner individuals who are responsible for implementing Celerra NS20 storage systems delivered with the Celerra Startup Assistant (CSA). This curriculum is delivered fully in selfstudy e-Learning mode to eliminate the need for travel and to minimize the time away from your job. This solution includes associate level certification curriculum and an online assessment, enabling formal validation and recognition expected for ASN partner technical resources.

  • Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
  • Continuous Remote Replication (CRR)
  • Heterogeneous SAN
  • Consistency groups
This curriculum is intended for any storage professional who deploys and manages EMC RecoverPoint CRR & CDP solutions. This curriculum offers the required knowledge and lab experiences needed to fully exploit the capabilities of the solution in complex SAN environments.

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