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http://brocade.com/education/certification-accreditation/certified-fabric-designer/index.page

Data Collection

• Given a scenario, design a solution that meets the customer's requirements
• Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of resiliency, redundancy, HA, and locality
• Given a scenario, describe the various documents required in the design assessment

Practice by making up many scenarios and then deciding which is the best way to design it.

Management and Monitoring Tools

• Given a scenario, describe how to satisfy a specific monitoring requirement
• Demonstrate knowledge of Brocade management tools

What to monitor How to monitor these

Hardware/Software Products and Features

• Demonstrate knowledge of interoperability of B-Series/M-Series products
• Given a scenario, describe Brocade hardware products and their purpose
• Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of Brocade software features and purpose

Interopmodes Features: VF, FCR, TI, QoS, FW, IRL, Trunking, Port Fencing, D_Port

Distance Solutions

• Given availability, performance and distance requirements, design an appropriate long distance solution using Fibre Channel
• Given a specific set of requirements, demonstrate ability to design a SAN extension solution using FCIP

FastWrite, Tape Pipelining, SACK Max distance for LWL and ELWL: Max performance of FCIP:

Performance Tuning Optimization

• Given a performance scenario, determine an appropriate solution
• Describe strategies for maximizing throughput in a Data Center Fabric

ICL, nohops, trunking. How to increase performance in FCIP and FCR:

Migration and Integration

• Given an existing fabric, identify migration strategies to upgrade the fabric with new technology
• Given a set of existing fabrics and network devices, determine a consolidation plan that minimizes disruption
• Describe the requirements to integrate a Brocade DCX Backbone into an existing M-Series fabric

FCR, Integrated Routing, E_port on a switch in the M_series.

Security

• Identify requirements for restricting which switches/devices may join a fabric
• Identify security features to restrict administrative access to a switch

SCC, AUTH DCC Distribute: RBAC IPFilter