This course presents the knowledge and skills to successfully design a cloud infrastructure that supports multiple types of services. The course takes an “open” approach and outlines infrastructure, application platform, and cloud management platform as the fundamental layers in a cloud. It explores the business needs and challenges that have led the organization to adopt a cloud solution. This course highlights the benefits, challenges, and considerations of design choices and emphasizes the importance of proper requirements gathering in the design process. Additionally, students are provided with opportunities to practice these new skills while performing exercises and labs. This course prepares the student for the Dell EMC ProvenTM Professional Cloud Architect certification exam.
The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.
- Driving digital transformation through cloud
- Cloud infrastructure design approach, goals, and scope
- Cloud solution design project lifecycle
- Cloud reference architecture
- General design considerations for cloud infrastructure
- Data collection process and metrics
- Data collection tools
- Business value analysis
- TCO and ROI
- Selection criteria
- Compute considerations
- Storage considerations
- Network considerations
- CI/HCI selection criteria
- Strategies and design considerations
- CMP reference architecture
- CMP infrastructure
- Selection criteria for CMP
- CMP design considerations
- Hybrid and multicloud use cases
- Design considerations for hybrid and multicloud
- Disaster recovery considerations
- Key requirements for application platform
- Options to build an application platform
- Design considerations for Do-It-Yourself
- Design considerations for using PaaS solution
In addition to lecture, this course includes case studies, exercises and labs
designed to allow practical experience for the participant.
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
Students are expected to be technical professionals with three or more years of design experience in storage, operating systems, virtualization, networking, business continuity, or disaster recovery.
Recommended prerequisites include: Dell EMC Information Storage and Management, Dell EMC Cloud Infrastructure and Services, VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).
This course is intended for architects, designers, and consultants who are involved in the planning and design of cloud infrastructure components.
