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CHAPTER 4
Data Center Design
This chapter covers enterprise data center design fundamentals, technology trends, and
challenges facing the data center. General data center architecture, components, and de-
sign considerations are examined, but detailed data center design is not covered.
This chapter also provides an overview of virtualization, discusses the various virtualiza-
tion technologies and network virtualization design considerations.
The CCDA candidate can expect plenty of questions related to data center fundamentals,
challenges, architecture, and virtualization.
The “Do I Know This Already?” helps you identify your strengths and deficiencies in this
chapter's topics.
The ten-question quiz, derived from the major sections in the “Foundation Topics” portion
of the chapter, helps you determine how to spend your limited study time.
Ta ble 4 -1 outlines the major topics discussed in this chapter and the “Do I Know This Al-
ready?” quiz questions that correspond to those topics.
Ta b l e 4 -1
Do I Know This Already?” Foundation Topics Section-to-Question Mapping
Foundation Topics Section
Questions Covered in This Section
Enterprise DC Overview
1, 2
Challenges in the DC
3, 4
Enterprise DC Infrastructure
5, 6
Virtualization Overview
7
Virtualization Technologies
8, 9
Network Virtualization Design Considerations
10
