Section 1: Designing and
planning a cloud solution architecture (~24% of the exam)
1.1 Designing a solution infrastructure that meets
business requirements. Considerations include:
â—Ź Business use cases and product
strategy
â—Ź Cost optimization
â—Ź Supporting the application design
â—Ź Integration with external systems
â—Ź Movement of data
â—Ź Design decision trade-offs
â—Ź Build, buy, modify, or deprecate
â—Ź Success measurements (e.g., key
performance indicators [KPI], return on investment
[ROI], metrics)
â—Ź Compliance and observability
1.2 Designing a solution infrastructure that meets
technical requirements. Considerations include:
â—Ź High availability and failover
design
â—Ź Elasticity of cloud resources
with respect to quotas and limits
â—Ź Scalability to meet growth
requirements
â—Ź Performance and latency
1.3 Designing network, storage, and compute resources.
Considerations include:
â—Ź Integration with
on-premises/multicloud environments
â—Ź Cloud-native networking (VPC,
peering, firewalls, container networking)
â—Ź Choosing data processing
technologies
â—Ź Choosing appropriate storage
types (e.g., object, file, databases)
â—Ź Choosing compute resources (e.g.,
preemptible, custom machine type, specialized workload)
â—Ź Mapping compute needs to platform
products
1.4 Creating a migration plan (i.e., documents and
architectural diagrams). Considerations include:
â—Ź Integrating solutions with
existing systems
â—Ź Migrating systems and data to
support the solution
â—Ź Software license mapping
â—Ź Network planning
â—Ź Testing and proofs of concept
â—Ź Dependency management planning
1.5 Envisioning future solution improvements.
Considerations include:
â—Ź Cloud and technology improvements
â—Ź Evolution of business needs
â—Ź Evangelism and advocacy