Professional Cloud Architect Certification Exam Guide

1.1 Designing a solution infrastructure that meets
business requirements. Considerations include:

    ●  Business use cases and product
strategy

    ●  Cost optimization

    ●  Supporting the application design

    ●  Integration with external systems

    ●  Movement of data

    ●   design decision trade – off

    ●   Build , buy , modify , or deprecate

    ●  Success measurements (e.g., key
performance indicators [KPI], return on investment
[ROI], metrics)

    ●   Compliance and observability

1.2 designing a solution infrastructure that meet
technical requirement . Considerations is include include :

    ●  High availability and failover
design

    ●   Elasticity of cloud resource
with respect to quota and limit

    ●  Scalability to meet growth
requirements

    ●  Performance and latency

1.3 Designing network, storage, and compute resources.
Considerations include:

    ●   Integration with
on – premise / multicloud environment

    ●  Cloud-native networking (VPC,
peering, firewalls, container networking)

    ●  Choosing data processing
technologies

    ●  Choosing appropriate storage
types (e.g., object, file, databases)

    ●  Choosing compute resources (e.g.,
preemptible, custom machine type, specialized workload)

    ●  Mapping compute needs to platform
products

1.4 Creating a migration plan (i.e., documents and
architectural diagrams). Considerations include:

    ●  Integrating solutions with
existing systems

    ●  Migrating systems and data to
support the solution

    ●  Software license mapping

    ●   Network planning

    ●   testing and proof of concept

    ●  Dependency management planning

1.5 Envisioning future solution improvements.
Considerations include:

    ●   Cloud and technology improvement

    ●  Evolution of business needs

    ●  Evangelism and advocacy