EMC's Cloud Infrastructure Services ( CIS ) E20-002 Certification Exam Learning aids

A few months back, i wrote about the availability of Cloud Infrastructure Services certification thru EMC Academic Alliance. Today, i would like to share insights on a few learning aids available for students, when preparing for the exam. 
Lets start by answering the question, Why should i enroll for Cloud Infrastructure and Services (EMCCIS) Exam ?. 
A quick note for students : Some of the product details shared may have converged to drive the Software-defined vision, but the foundation to all technologies continue to remain the same. Hence, the videos shared are only to prepare you for the CIS exam and shall only compliment the theory learnt,
Breaking the contents to respective modules
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Module 1: Journey to the Cloud

For Reading  

• EMC IT's Journey to the Private Cloud: A Practitioner's Guide

Videos     

• Intro to Cloud Computing 

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Module – 2   Classic Data Center

• Take a journey through Google’s data centers by following an email along its path.
• Inside a Google Data center

Reading 

• Data center Technologies 
• Converged Data Center: FCoE, iSCSI, & the Future of Storage Networking ( EMC World 2013 )
• Storage Area Networking: SAN Technology Update & Best Practice Deep Dive for FC, FCoE, & iSCSI SANs

Video 

• RAID Techniques ( to be uploaded soon ) 
• Introduction to Storage Area Network 
• The Why and How of Data Deduplication 
• Big Ideas: Why Cloud Matters 
• Introduction to Data Backup ( to be uploaded soon )

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Module – 3 Virtualized Data Center – Compute 

Reading 

• All about Virtualization
• EMC IT's Journey to the Private Cloud: Server virtualization

Video

• VMware Virtualization
• Virtualization 101

Concept in Practice

• VMware Vsphere Demo   
• vSphere with Operations Management 
• Infrastructure Components - Compute

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Module 4 : Virtualized Data Center – Storage

Concept is Practice

• EMC IT's Journey to the Private Cloud: Backup & Recovery Systems
• EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering 
• EMC Vplex 
• Storage vMotion 
• Infrastructure Components - Storage

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Module 5: Virtualized Data Center – Networking

Concept is Practice

• Network Virtualization  
• Demo 

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Module 6: Virtualized Data Center – Desktop

• EMC IT's Journey to the Private Cloud: Applications & Cloud Experience
• EMC IT’s Journey to the Cloud : VIRTUAL DESKTOP
• Demo: Manage ThinApp Packages using Horizon Workspace
• VDI

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Module 7: Business Continuity in VDC 

• VMware vMotion
• Fault Tolerance
• Avamar Flash Demo - EMC
• EMC Data Domain

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Module – 8   Cloud Computing primer

• Cloud Computing Defined 

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Module – 9   Cloud Infrastructure and Management

• Simplifying and Automating Management Across Virtualized/Cloud-Based Infrastructures
• Demo: EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager/Operations - EMC
• VBlock

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Module 10: Cloud Security

• Cloud Computing Security  
• VMware vCloud Networking and Security

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Module – 11 Cloud Migration Considerations

Further reading :

• EMC Accelerates Journey to Big Data with Business Analytics-as-a-Service
• 2012 EMC Corporation IT Performance Report

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I will try to update the contents at regular intervals. Hope this helps you score good marks in the exam. Also, don't forget to try our Practice Test today.