Domain 3: Migration Planning (15% of the exam content)

This domain accounts for 15% of the exam content.

Task 3.1: Select existing workloads and processes for potential migration

Knowledge of:

• Application discovery and assessment

• Application portfolio assessment

• Total cost of ownership (TCO) calculation

• Application migration tools (for example, Application Discovery Service, Migration Hub)

Skills in:

• Evaluating cloud readiness of applications

• Identifying application dependencies

• Calculating TCO for applications

• Prioritizing workloads for migration

Task 3.2: Determine the optimal migration strategy for existing workloads

Knowledge of:

• The 6 Rs of migration (rehost, replatform, repurchase, refactor, retire, retain)

• Application migration tools and services (for example, Application Migration Service, Datenbank Migration Service)

• Data transfer services (for example, DataSync, Transfer Family, Snow Family)

• networking services for migration (for example, Direct Connect, VPN)

Skills in:

• Selecting the appropriate migration strategy for applications

• Selecting the appropriate database migration tools and services

• Selecting the appropriate data transfer services

• Designing network architectures for migration

Task 3.3: Determine a migration strategy for existing on-premises data

Knowledge of:

• Data migration tools and services (for example, Datenbank Migration Service, DataSync)

• Data transfer services (for example, Snow Family)

• Datenbank migration strategies (for example, homogeneous, heterogeneous)

• Data validation and reconciliation

Skills in:

• Selecting the appropriate data migration tools and services

• Designing data migration strategies

• Implementing data validation and reconciliation processes

• Designing strategies for large-scale data migrations