Brocade Certified Professional Data Center Track – Check!

After ~49 posts on this blog on the topic Brocade the first larger block is finally complete: the Brocade Certified Professional Data Center Track (BCPDC)!

What’s that? So Brocade has several (4) tracks which consist of  certifications/accrediations, some are shared between the tracks and some are only in one track.
Currently, after completing 3 out of 4 you gets the title Brocade Distinguished Architect! Woop!

It took me ~3.5 years (counting since first blog post about BCFA (certified fabric administrator)) to complete all the prerequisites for BCPDC, but naturally I didn’t do it as fast as I could. I was patient and many of the certificates I got by being signing up for Brocade’s beta tests of their certs.

Not that many certificates left to take actually before I can complete another track.
Most of the remaining ones are labeled accreditations, which are unprobro_edu4_cert_pro_data_center_rgbctored tests one does at home.

  • For Brocade Certified Professional Converged Networking (BCPCN) I have 3 accrediations left (Fabric Specialist, FCoE Specialist and Ethernet Fabric Support Specialist) and 1 certification: Ethernet Fabric Professional 2013. The certification I have signed up for the free one I mentioned in an earlier blog post.
  • For Brocade Certified Professional
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    Posted at 10pm on 02/04/14 | No Comments » | Filed Under: IT, Storage

BANAS – Brocade Certification – Studying

I’m going to focus on the below things when studying for BANAS: They are based on the current objectives listed on Brocade’s page.

 

Brocade Accredited Network Advisor Specialist Exam Topics

  • The Brocade Accredited Network Advisor Specialist exam has these objectives:

Product Features

  • Demonstrate knowledge of Brocade Network Advisor product features

Installation and Configuration

  • Describe the installation and configuration of Brocade Network Advisor

  • Perform SAN Discovery

    • What are seed switches?

  • Perform IP Discovery

    • BNA 170-WBT is a course that’s currently free by Brocade – it’s about IP Discovery in BNA!
    • Once discovered devices are stored in the Management application database. First IP of the device discovered becomes the primary address of the device.
    • Simple/Profile based discovery: single: hostname/IP. Profile: range.
    • Requirements
      • Users must have Discover Setup-IP and “All IP Products AOR” privileges
        • For rediscovery only “All IP Products AOR” is needed?
      • ICMP or telnet must be enabled on devices
      • Snmpv1+v2 or v3 read-write
      • IP range of devices must be known
      • All devices must have SNMP MIB support
    • Access by: “Discover -> IP Products”.
    • One can add default username/password. One can add several and it tries the default and then the rest..
    • It uses OIDs to select products to
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      Posted at 10pm on 30/03/14 | No Comments » | Filed Under: IT, Storage
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