Course Description
This course presents the knowledge & skills to design a cloud infrastructure that supports multiple services successfully. The procedure takes an “open” approach & outlines infrastructure, application platform, & cloud management platform as the fundamental layers in a cloud. It explores the business needs & challenges that have led the organization to adopt a cloud solution. This course highlights the benefits, challenges, & considerations of design choices & emphasizes the importance of proper requirements gathering in the design process. Additionally, students are given opportunities to practice these new skills while performing exercises & labs. This course prepares the student for the Dell EMC ProvenTM Professional Cloud Architect certification exam.
Prerequisites
- 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 & Management, Dell EMC Cloud Infrastructure & Services, VMware Certified Professional (VCP) & Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).
Audience Profile
This course is intended for architects, designers, & consultants involved in the planning & design of cloud infrastructure components.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Apply relevant design processes & techniques when producing an effective cloud infrastructure design.
- Make a cloud infrastructure design that addresses business requirements & constraints that were identified during an assessment.
- Communicate the benefits, challenges, & considerations of various cloud-enabling technologies and their relevance in meeting a business requirement or constraint.
- Develop a cloud infrastructure design that includes cloud management, application platform, consumer resources, hybrid & multi-cloud capabilities, & disaster recovery.
Content Outline
- Driving digital transformation through Cloud
- Cloud infrastructure design approach, goals, & scope
- Cloud solution design project lifecycle
- Cloud reference architecture
- General design considerations for cloud infrastructure
- Data collection process & metrics
- Data collection tools
- Business value analysis
- TCO & ROI
- Selection criteria
- Compute considerations
- Storage considerations
- Network consideration
- CI/HCI selection criteria
- Strategies & design considerations
- Proof of concept: Cloud-in-a-box infrastructure
- CMP reference architecture
- CMP infrastructure
- Selection criteria for CMP
- CMP design considerations
- Hybrid & multi-cloud use cases
- Design considerations for hybrid & multi-cloud
- Disaster recovery considerations
- Key requirements for the application platform
- Options to build an application platform
- Design considerations for Do-It-Yourself
- Design considerations for using a PaaS solution
Certification
Specialist - Cloud Architect, Cloud Infrastructure Version 3.0 (DCS-CA)
FAQs
A: This course is intended for architects, designers, & consultants involved in the planning & design of cloud infrastructure components.
A: To attend the training session, you should have operational Desktops or Laptops with the required specification and a good internet connection to access the labs.
A: We recommend you attend the live session to practice & clarify the doubts instantly & get more value from your investment. However, if, due to some contingency, you have to skip the class, Radiant Techlearning will help you with the recorded session of that particular day. However, those recorded sessions are not meant only for personal consumption & NOT for distribution or commercial use.
A: Radiant Techlearning has a data center containing a Virtual Training environment for participants’ hand-on-practice.
Participants can easily access these labs over Cloud with the assistance of a remote desktop connection.
Radiant virtual labs allow you to learn from anywhere in the world & in any time zone.
A: The learners will be enthralled as we engage them the real-world & industry Oriented projects during the training program. These projects will improve your skills & knowledge & you will gain a better experience. These real-time projects will help you a lot in your future tasks & assignments.