IBM Cloud Advanced Architect

“This course will soon be retired"

The IBM Cloud Advanced Architect course is designed for professionals who typically have three or more years of experience working as a cloud architect. This advanced-level course extends and validates an architects’ capabilities while preparing them for an advanced IBM Cloud certification. Certification as an IBM Cloud Advanced Architect assures employers, colleagues, and clients that practitioners are knowledgeable and up to date on cloud technologies and practices as well as the latest IBM Cloud products and services. Upon successful completion of IBM Cloud Advanced Architect, learners enrolled in the Verified Certificate Track will receive an edX certificate as well as a code for 50% off the IBM Cloud Advanced Architect certification exam. Upon receiving a passing score on the exam, the IBM Cloud Advanced Architect v2 Specialty certification will be awarded by Credly.

Module 1: Introduction

You will cover the following topic:

• Introduction to IBM Cloud Advanced Architect

Module 2: Designing Cloud Solutions

You will cover the following topics:

• Building and Designing Solutions to Scale Elastically for Performance and Cost Efficiency
• Optimizing Solution Performance Using Geolocation
• Advantages of Immutable Cloud Infrastructure Software Defined Environments
• Designing Cloud Native Architecture
• Selecting Compute Options
• Designing Environments for Multicloud Deployments

Module 3: Compute Options

You will cover the following topics:

• Designing Resilient Solutions
• Designing per Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective Requirements
• Designing Resilient Solutions using Technologies with Inherent Resiliency
• Designing Solutions to Survive Outages

Module 4: Security

You will cover the following topics:

• Applying IBM Cloud Security Best Practices
• Applying the IBM Cloud Shared Responsibility Model
• IBM Cloud Security Services
• Design Solutions that Take Advantage of Multiple Security Services
• Security and Compliance Goals

Module 5: Observability and Monitoring

You will cover the following topics:

• Logging and Monitoring to Trigger Autoscaling and Deployment of Services
• Designing Solutions for Observability

Module 6: Data and Migration

You will cover the following topics:

• Designing Solutions for Storing and Analyzing Data
• Designing Solutions for Portability
• Designing Solutions for Data Residency

Module 7: Cloud Migration and Modernization

You will cover the following topics:

• Identifying Customer Requirements for Application Modernization and Migration
• Migrating Complex Workloads to IBM Cloud
• Migrating Complex Workloads to Containers on IBM Cloud
• Applying Network Design Considerations