Domain 3: Migration Planning (15% of the exam content)
This domain accounts for 15% of the exam content.
Topics
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