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Dell Data Protection

Management Foundations

Build a comprehensive understanding of modern data protection — covering backup, replication, archiving, cloud protection, SDDC, and security management for wherever data lives.

Backup & Recovery Data Replication Deduplication Archiving SDDC Protection Cloud Backup Fault Tolerance Cyber Recovery Data Security GRC

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D-DP-FN-23 — Data Protection Architecture

Modules

Complete D-DP-FN-23 scope

22+ hrs

Duration

Self-paced learning

Foundations

Level

Associate foundations tier

24/7

Support

Expert guidance

What You Will Learn

Five Data Protection Foundation Modules

Build the foundational knowledge to protect data wherever it lives — on-premises, cloud, SDDC, or edge — and prepare for advanced data protection certifications.

Module 01

Data Protection Architecture

›Need for data protection and availability — RTO, RPO, and SLA objectives
›Various data protection and availability solutions — backup, replication, and snapshots
›Building blocks of a data protection architecture and data source components
›Data protection applications, storage targets, and management functions
›Data security controls — encryption, access management, and compliance frameworks

Module 02

Data Protection Solutions

›Fault tolerance — compute (RAID, HA), network (bonding, multipath), and storage-based techniques
›Application-based fault tolerance — database clustering, availability zones, and active-active configurations
›Backup architecture — topologies (direct, LAN-based, SAN-based), granularity, and recovery operations
›Data deduplication — deduplication ratios, source vs target deduplication, and primary storage deduplication
›Replication — local and remote replication, synchronous vs asynchronous, and consistency groups

Module 03

Data Archiving and Migration

›Data archiving architecture — active archive, compliance archive, and storage tiering policies
›Archiving and retrieval operations — stub files, recall, and ILM policy management
›Storage tiering — hot, warm, cold, and archive tiers with automated tiering policies
›SAN migration — LUN migration, host-based migration, and array-based migration
›NAS, hypervisor, and application-based migration techniques

Module 04

Data Protection for SDDC, Cloud, and Big Data

›SDDC architecture — software-defined compute (vSphere), storage (vSAN), networking (NSX), and data protection
›Cloud computing service models and deployment models for data protection workloads
›Cloud-based backup, replication, archiving, and migration strategies
›Big data analytics and data protection for data lakes — Hadoop, Spark ecosystem
›Big Data as a Service (BDaaS), mobile device backup, and cloud-based mobile data protection

Module 05

Securing and Managing the Data Protection Environment

›Drivers for data security — regulatory requirements, insider threats, and ransomware proliferation
›GRC — governance frameworks, risk quantification, and compliance audit processes
›Security threats — ransomware, data exfiltration, and supply chain attacks
›Security controls — immutable backups, air-gapped vaults, RBAC, and MFA
›Data protection management functions — monitoring, reporting, alerting, and SLA compliance

Full Curriculum

5-Module D-DP-FN-23 Programme

Complete data protection foundations from architecture basics through cloud, SDDC, and security management — the essential stepping stone to advanced Dell DP certifications.

›Data protection need — business continuity, regulatory compliance, and ransomware resilience drivers
›Data protection and availability solutions — backup, snapshots, replication, and CDP
›Building blocks — production data sources, protection application, storage targets, and management
›Data protection application types — agent-based, agentless, and hypervisor-level backup
›Data security — encryption at rest, in-transit, access management, and audit logging

›Fault tolerance layers — compute RAID, HBA multipath, network bonding, and storage-based HA
›Application-based fault tolerance — Oracle RAC, SQL Always On, and VMware HA/FT
›Backup granularity — full, incremental, differential, reverse incremental, and synthetic full
›Backup topologies — direct attached, LAN-based, SAN-based, and serverless LAN-free backup
›Deduplication types — inline vs post-process, source vs target, and primary storage deduplication
›Replication modes — synchronous, asynchronous, journal-based CDP, and snap-based replication

›Active archive — cost-optimised tier for ageing data with full random-access retrieval
›Compliance archiving — WORM policies, litigation hold, e-discovery, and retention enforcement
›Storage tiering — hot (NVMe/SSD), warm (SAS), cold (SATA/NL-SAS), and archive (tape/object) tiers
›Automated storage tiering — ILM policy engines, tiering triggers, and performance impact analysis
›Migration approaches — SAN LUN migration (VAAI), NAS share migration, and application-aware cutover

›SDDC architecture — vSphere (compute), vSAN (storage), NSX (networking) integration for DP
›Data protection in SDDC — VADP-based backup, storage-based snapshots, and VM replication
›Cloud deployment models — public, private, hybrid, and community cloud DP strategies
›Cloud-based backup — cloud-native agents, Cloud Tier integration, and cloud-to-cloud backup
›Data lake protection — HDFS backup, Spark checkpoints, and Hive metadata protection
›Big Data as a Service — SaaS data protection, mobile MDM backup, and cloud endpoint backup

›Security drivers — regulatory mandates (GDPR, HIPAA, SOX), ransomware, and insider threats
›GRC — risk registers, control frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST CSF), and audit evidence collection
›Security threats specific to DP — backup infrastructure targeting, catalogue encryption, and exfiltration
›Security controls — immutable backup copies, object lock, air-gapped vaults, and privileged access management
›DP management functions — policy lifecycle, job monitoring, SLA alerting, and capacity reporting
›Management processes — change management for DP environments, DR testing, and vendor management

Live Training

Live Instructor

Mon–Fri · Weekend batches

Recording

Live class recording included

30 Days

1.5 hrs/day weekday · 3 hrs weekend

Course Materials

Study notes and resources

Tech Support

Call / WhatsApp support

Working Hours

Mon–Fri · 9 AM – 6 PM

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Management Foundations

Five Data Protection Foundation Modules

5-Module D-DP-FN-23 Programme

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