NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer—Data Protection Specialist

The NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer–Data Protection exam tests the candidate’s skills, knowledge, and capabilities in NetApp® data protection solutions, assessment of customer data storage requirements, as well as the implementation of backup and disaster recovery solutions.

Candidates should have six to twelve months of experience with: NetApp ONTAP replication technologies, planning, implementing and administering NetApp data protection and recovery solutions.

Candidates must first achieve the NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA) certification.

You should be able to do these tasks

• Create backup schedules and policies
• Implement interdependencies
• Translate business requirements into policies

You should be familiar with these tools

• SnapCenter, BlueXP, System manager
• AIQ-DA, AIQUM, HWU, IMT, CI/CS, fPolicy
• SSH, Ping, Traceroute, CLI

Domain 1. Data Protection Solutions

• Data protection solutions
• Design documentation solutions 
• Solution dependencies

Domain 2. NetApp ONTAP Core Data Protection Features

• Knowledge of data protection or data redundancy on an ONTAP system
• Data efficiencies as they relate to data protection
• How to deploy data protection solutions in a hybrid cloud

Domain 3. NetApp Data Protection Software

• Deploy NetApp data protection software
• Administer NetApp data protection software
• Data protection solutions for Kubernetes applications

Domain 4. NetApp ONTAP Business Continuity Solutions

• SnapMirror active sync
• SVM-DR operations

Domain 5. Troubleshooting and Testing

• Troubleshoot data protection configurations
• Disaster Recovery procedures
• Data restore procedures

Candidates must first achieve the NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA) certification.

Consider completing the following NetApp Associate Accreditation exams:

NetApp Cloud Native Associate

NetApp Hybrid Cloud Associate