IT Infrastructure · Beginner → Expert
💾 Storage Engineering: DAS, NAS, SAN and Object Storage
Understand enterprise storage from disks and RAID through filesystems, NAS, SAN, object storage, performance, snapshots, replication, backup integration, resilience, and operations.
Course roadmap
Pass each module exam to unlock the next module.
Module 1 · Beginner
Storage Media, Interfaces and Performance Characteristics
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Module 2 · Beginner
Capacity Units, IOPS, Throughput and Latency
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Module 3 · Beginner
RAID Levels, Erasure Concepts and Failure Domains
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Module 4 · Beginner
Partitions, Volumes and Filesystem Fundamentals
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Module 5 · Intermediate
DAS and Local Storage Architecture
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Module 6 · Intermediate
NAS, SMB, NFS and File Service Design
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Module 7 · Intermediate
SAN, Fibre Channel and iSCSI Concepts
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Module 8 · Intermediate
LUNs, Multipathing and Block Storage Operations
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Module 9 · Advanced
Object Storage, Buckets, Metadata and Consistency Concepts
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Module 10 · Advanced
Caching, Tiering and Data Placement
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Module 11 · Advanced
Snapshots, Clones and Copy-on-Write Concepts
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Module 12 · Advanced
Replication, Mirroring and High Availability
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Module 13 · Advanced
Backup Integration and Recovery Design
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Module 14 · Expert
Encryption, Access Control and Data Security
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Module 15 · Expert
Monitoring, Capacity Planning and Performance Troubleshooting
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Module 16 · Expert
Lifecycle, Firmware, Expansion and Migration
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Module 17 · Expert
Expert Capstone: Resilient Storage Platform
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Certification gate
Final course exam
Pass mark: 80%. Time limit: 360 minutes. All module exams must be passed first.
Locked until modules are passed