F-05, Technical
Understanding technical infrastructure
Understand how power, cooling, monitoring and resilience interact to support critical IT services.
Objectives
- Trace the main power and cooling chains that support an IT load
- Explain the purpose of major electrical and mechanical components
- Compare redundancy, maintainability and failure isolation choices
- Relate monitoring and maintenance evidence to operational resilience
Audience
IT managers, junior facilities engineers, project managers, operators and buyers working with critical infrastructure.
Prerequisites
- Basic Data Center terminology
- This course does not replace electrical or mechanical trade qualification
Programme
01
Electrical architecture
- Power, energy, current, voltage and three phase concepts
- Utility intake, transformers, switchgear and protection
- UPS systems, stored energy and downstream distribution
- Reading an overview single line diagram and locating dependencies
02
Standby power and cooling
- Generator systems, fuel autonomy and transfer arrangements
- Testing under representative conditions and recording results
- Heat path, air and liquid cooling concepts and major components
- Control points, airflow, water, leaks and environmental monitoring
03
Resilience and operational assurance
- Capacity, redundancy, concurrent maintenance and fault isolation
- Failure modes, common mode risks and system dependencies
- Monitoring, alarms, maintenance and periodic testing
- Assessment based on evidence without treating a topology label as a guarantee
Outcomes
- Explain a Data Center power and cooling architecture at system level
- Distinguish installed redundancy from demonstrated resilience
- Identify the evidence needed to support a technical risk review
Public references
TALINTS programme outline informed by openly accessible institutional publications.