Solution Architect Practitioner's Guide (AWS Certification Prep)


Course Number: SA-100WA
Duration: 4 days (26 hours)
Format: Live, hands-on

Solution Architect Training Overview

This Solution Architect training course teaches attendees how to develop non-functional requirements, create architecture views, use patterns, and perform architecture reviews. This course also prepares participants for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Certification exam.  

Location and Pricing

Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.

Objectives

  • Work with business use cases and requirements to identify architecturally significant requirements
  • Define architecture to fulfill the requirements, ensuring that it is traceable, verifiable, and measurable
  • Communicate the architecture to technical teams for implementation, use, and ongoing support
  • Demonstrate the value of the architecture to the business
  • Identify and apply appropriate techniques to build momentum in the rapid delivery of successful solutions

Prerequisites

No prior experience is presumed.

Outline

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Introduction
Solution Architecture Overview
  • Why is Solution Architecture Important?
  • Communications Vehicle Among Stakeholders
  • The Project is Organized Around Architectural Elements
  • What is a System?
  • Why Focus on Structure?
  • Solution Architecture Context
  • Solution Architecture & Domains
  • SA Spans All Domains
  • Relationship to EA Architecture Development Process
  • Example: Solution Architecture Stakeholders
  • Solution Architecture Deliverables
  • EA Involvement in SA
  • Architecturally Significant
  • Resource: Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
  • Resource: SWEBOK
  • Resource: OpenUp
  • Resource: Microsoft Library
  • Group Discussion: Methodologies
Core Solution Architecture Methods
  • Shared Vision
  • Example Shared Vision
  • Draw the Boundary
  • Well-defined Interface
  • Example: Context Diagram
  • Identify the External Interfaces
  • Subsystems
  • Subsystem Context Diagram
  • Layers
  • Example: Subsystems with Layers
  • Components
  • Decomposing the System
  • Partitioning Patterns
  • Example Partitioning Based on Patterns
  • Example: Healthcare SOA Framework
  • Requirements Allocation
  • Group Discussion: Requirements Allocation
  • Configuration Management Implications
  • Release Management Implications
  • Testing Implications
  • Work Pattern & Skill Set Implications
  • Work & Build Dependencies
  • Increment/Sprint Planning
  • Sizing Implications
  • More Than Executable Architecture
  • Development Architecture
  • Operations Architecture
  • Group Discussion: Integrating Operations Architecture
Architecture Concepts
  • Fundamental Architecture Concepts
  • Abstraction
  • Coupling
  • Cohesion
  • Decomposition & Modularization
  • Encapsulation & Information Hiding
  • Separation of Interface & Implementation
Stakeholder Management
  • When to Focus on Stakeholder Management
  • Steps in the Stakeholder Management Process
  • Identifying Stakeholders
  • Points to Consider
  • Example Stakeholders & Concerns
  • Classifying Their Positions: The Stakeholder Matrix
  • Determining the Stakeholder Management Approach and Tailoring the Deliverables: The Stakeholder Map
  • Example: Stakeholder Map
  • Template: Stakeholder Map Matrix Template
Views & Viewpoints
  • Example View: Claim Handling from a Process Viewpoint
  • Example View: Claim Handling from a Data Viewpoint
  • Example View: Claim Handling Project from a Financial Viewpoint
  • Contents of Views and Viewpoints
  • Example Formal Viewpoint: Security
  • Software Architecture Viewpoints: 4+1
Architecture Requirements
  • Architecture Quality Attributes
  • Quality of Service Requirement Categories
  • Checklist: Quality Attribute (QA) Categories
  • Trade-off Analysis
  • Group Discussion: Trade-offs
  • Technique: Requirement Patterns
  • Tool: Non-Functional Requirement Patterns
  • Checklist: Requirement Statement Best Practices
  • Technique: Architecture Change Cases
  • Template: Elements of a Change Case
  • Example: Change Case
  • Eliciting Change Cases
  • Group Discussion: Change Case
Architecture Requirement Techniques
  • Requirements Management Activities
  • Best Practices
  • Baselining Requirements
  • Desirable RM Repository Characteristics
  • Example: Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
  • Why Traceability?
  • Identifying Candidate Tactics, Patterns, and Styles
  • Requirements-Tactics-Patterns-Styles
  • Making Architectural Decisions
  • Architectural Measurement
  • Implementing Architectural Measurement
  • Example Metrics
Quality of Service (QoS) Requirements
  • Qualities of Service and Design
  • Performance: Requirements
  • Performance: Response Time Pattern
  • Performance: Transaction Time Patterns
  • Performance: Throughput Pattern
  • Scalability: Capacity Patterns
  • Reliability & Availability
  • Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
  • Availability: Pattern
  • Extensibility
  • Maintainability
  • Manageability
  • Security
  • Cultural Adaptability
  • Portability
  • Testability
  • Usability
  • Upgradeability
  • Recoverability
  • Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
  • Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
  • Prioritizing Quality of Service Requirements
  • Inspecting QoS Requirements for Trade-off Opportunities
  • Quality of Service Testing
Business Architecture
  • Business Architecture Models & Diagrams
  • Business Process Concepts
  • Example: Medicaid Business Process Model
  • Example: Medicaid Business Process Definition
  • Business Function Concepts
  • Example: HL7 EHR Functional Model
  • Example: Process Flow Diagram
  • Resource: Business Analysis Book of Knowledge (BABOK)
  • Resource: Business Architecture Body of Knowledge (BIZBOK™)
Data Architecture
  • Data Modeling
  • Conceptual Data Model
  • Example: Conceptual Data Model
  • Example: Property & Casualty Conceptual Data Model
  • Example: Data Entities
  • Logical Data Model
  • Normalization
  • Abstraction
  • Example: Logical Data Model
  • Physical Data Model
  • Example: Physical Data Model
  • Data Modeling Notation
  • Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
  • Cardinality
  • Annotated Relationships
  • Subtype Relationship
  • Resource: DAMA DMBOK
Data Domain Systems
  • First, Some Practical Observations
  • Data vs Information
  • The Need to Bridge the Gap
  • The Three vs. of Big Data
  • Limitations of Relational Databases
  • Limitations of Relational Databases (Cont'd)
  • What are NoSQL (Not Only SQL) Databases?
  • What are NoSQL (Not Only SQL) Databases?
  • The Past and Present of the NoSQL World
  • NoSQL Database Properties
  • NoSQL Benefits
  • NoSQL Database Storage Types
  • The NoSQL Systems CAP Triangle
  • Limitations of NoSQL Databases
  • Big Data Sharding
  • Sharding Example
  • Mix-and-match Approach
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon Storage SLAs
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Data Lifecycle Management with Amazon S3
  • Microsoft Azure Data Management Capabilities
  • Hadoop
  • Hadoop Distributed File System
  • HBase
  • Apache Spark
  • The Spark Platform
  • Running Spark on a Cluster
  • MongoDB
  • MongoDB Use Cases
  • Apache Cassandra
  • Apache Cassandra Design
  • Cassandra's Main Features and Qualities of Service
Supporting QoS Requirements
  • Tactics
  • Availability Tactics
  • Supporting System's High Availability
  • The CAP Theorem
  • Mechanisms to Guarantee a Single CAP Property
  • Modifiability Tactics
  • Horizontal and Vertical Scalability
  • Leveraging Cloud Scaling Services
  • Performance Tactics
  • Achieving the Performance You Need
  • Security Tactics
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) with Federated Identity Management
  • OpenID
  • OpenID Communication Diagram
  • OAuth 2.0
  • OAuth 2.0 Communication Diagram
  • OpenID Connect
  • OpenID Connect Communication Diagram
  • Operational Security in the Cloud
  • DevOps Security Concerns
  • Testability Tactics
  • Achieving Testability with Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration
  • Typical Setup for OSS-based Continuous Integration
  • Responsive Web Design (RWD) Support for Usability
Solution Architecture Styles
  • Catalog of Architectural Styles
  • Asynchronous Messaging
  • Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
  • Example MOM implementation Platforms
  • MOM Messaging
  • MOM Qualities
  • Publish/Subscribe Messaging
  • Point-to-Point Messaging (P2P)
  • MOM Related Standards
  • MOM Example
  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Service-Oriented Interaction Model
  • SOA Characteristics
  • Microservices
  • Microservices Architecture
  • Microservices vs. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
  • Many Flavors of Web Services
  • Understanding REST
  • Principles of RESTful Services
  • SOAP and RESTful Web Services
Patterns
  • What are Patterns?
  • Elements of a Pattern
  • Pattern Levels
  • Pattern Types
  • How to Start Using Patterns?
  • Common Architectural Patterns
  • Layers Pattern
  • Example: Retail Layered Architecture
  • Object-Oriented Design Patterns
  • OO Design Patterns
  • Structural Design Pattern: Facade Pattern Example
  • Enterprise Integration Patterns
  • Messaging Systems: Overview
  • Example Pattern: Pipes and Filters
  • Example: Monitoring Credit Bureau
  • EAA Patterns
  • Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern
  • SOA Patterns
  • Example: Saga Pattern
  • Business Process Patterns
  • Example: Synchronizing Merge Pattern
  • Configuration Management Patterns
  • New Patterns Continue to Emerge
  • Group Discussion: Patterns
Technical Architecture
  • What is Technical Architecture?
  • Two Components of Technical Architecture
  • Software Architecture
  • What a Technical Architecture is Not
  • Architectural Views
  • Rational Unified Process (RUP) 4 + 1 Views
  • The Implementation View
  • The Deployment View
  • Technology Modeling
  • The Essential Project: Technology Modeling overview
  • Layers of the Enterprise Architecture
  • Relationship with Other Architectures
  • Relationship between Business Architecture and TA
  • Relationship between EA, SA, and TA
  • SA vs. TA
  • Technical Architecture's Scope
  • The Technical Architect's Areas of Expertise
  • The Technical Architect's Tasks
  • Target System Elements Identification
  • Technical Architecture Governance
  • System Capacity Planning
Defining the Cloud
  • A Bit of History
  • Cloud Computing at a Glance
  • Electrical Power Grid Service Analogy
  • The NIST Perspective
  • Five Characteristics
  • On-demand Self-Service (NIST Characteristic)
  • Broad Network Access (NIST Characteristic)
  • Resource Pooling (NIST Characteristic)
  • Rapid Elasticity (NIST Characteristic)
  • Measured Service (NIST Characteristic)
  • The Three Cloud Service Models: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
  • The Four Cloud Deployment Models (NIST)
  • The NIST Cloud Definition Framework
  • A Hybrid Cloud Diagram
  • Cloud Services
  • Managed vs. Unmanaged Services
  • Shared Responsibility Model
  • The AWS (Simplified) Service Stack
Architecture Deliverables
  • Documentation Best Practices
  • Architecture Requirements Document
  • Template: Requirements Specification
  • IEEE Architectural Description Document
  • Template: Architectural Description Document
  • TOGAF Architecture Definition Document
  • Templates: Architectural Definition Document
  • Group Discussion: Architecture Definition Documents
  • Interface Specifications
  • Interface Specification Best Practices
  • Interface Design Document
  • Template: Interface Design Document
  • Database Design Document
  • Template: Database Design Document
  • Platform Design Document
  • Template: Platform Design Document
  • Architecture Decision Document
  • Template: Architecture Decision Document
  • Verbal Supports: CREST
  • Group Discussion: Presentations
Reference Architecture
  • Reference Architecture Components
  • Reference Architecture Context
  • Architecture Principles
  • Qualities of a Good Set of Principles
  • Templates: Principle & Principle Catalog
  • Applying Architecture Principles
  • Policies
  • Template: Policy
  • Example: Governance Policies
  • Example: SOA Policy
  • Example: Policies
  • Reference Models
  • Example: Reference Model
  • Example: Architecture Use Cases
  • Example: SOA Reference Architecture
  • Practices: Standards & Guidelines
  • Example: Interoperability Standards
  • Resource: Financial Industry Organizations
  • Resource: Health Industry Organizations
  • Resource: Retail Industry Organizations
  • Resource: Technical Organizations
  • Industry Organizations
  • Insurance Industry Standards ROI
  • Requirements
  • Example: Mobile Security Reference Architecture
  • Example: MSRA Requirements
  • Architecture Building Blocks: Reusable Requirement Sets
  • Resource: NIST Security Requirements
  • Example: COTS Standard Requirements Set
Packaged Software and SaaS
  • Alternatives to Custom Development and Hosting
  • Open Source Software
  • Frameworks
  • Cloud Computing
  • Integration of Mixed Solutions
  • Implications for Architecture
  • Packaged Software Advantages & Disadvantages
  • SaaS Advantages and Disadvantages
  • Open Source Advantages and Disadvantages
  • Integration Strategies
  • The API Economy
  • COTS
  • Typical COTS Architecture
Building Modern Applications
  • Next-Generation Methodologies, Approaches, Tools, and Applications
  • Web 2.0
  • Rich Internet Client Applications
  • Single Page Applications (SPA) with AngularJS
  • Two-way Data Binding (the AngularJS Way)
  • Other Client Side MV(C) Frameworks
  • "Rich Client" - "Thin Server" Architecture
  • Mobile Platforms
  • Types of Mobile Applications
  • Native Mobile Applications
  • Mobile Web Applications
  • Hybrid Mobile Applications
  • Hybrid App Tools and Frameworks
  • RIA as a Driving Force to Turn the "Thin Server" into Microservice(s)
  • So, How Can Microservices Help Me?
  • The Data Exchange Interoperability Consideration
  • Microservices in Their Purest Form: AWS Lambdas
  • The Microservices Architecture Design Principles
  • Decentralized Processing
  • Crossing Process Boundary is Expensive!
  • Managing Microservices
  • Traditional Enterprise Application Architecture (Simplified)
  • Microservices Architecture Example (Simplified)
  • Design for Failure
  • Fault Injection During System Testing
  • Architecting in the Cloud
  • The Building Blocks of a Fault-tolerant Application on AWS
  • Dev and Ops Views
  • What is DevOps?
  • More DevOps Definitions
  • DevOps and Software Delivery Life Cycle
  • Main DevOps Objectives
  • The Term "DevOps" is Evolving!
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Prerequisites for DevOps Success
  • Alignment with Business Needs
  • Collaborative Development
  • Continuous Testing and Integration
  • Continuous Release and Deployment
  • Continuous Application Monitoring
  • Standing Up DevOps
  • Select DevOps Techniques and Practices
  • Containerization and Virtualization
  • Machine Images On Demand
  • Virtualization
  • Hypervisors
  • Docker Containers
  • Docker as Platform-as-a-Service
  • Docker Integration
  • Docker Application Container Public Repository
  • Kubernetes
  • Other Containerization Systems
  • Where to Use Virtualization and Containerization
Conclusion

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