Dell – Cloud Infrastructure Planning & Design

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Dell – Cloud Infrastructure Planning & Design

 

Course Overview

This course presents the knowledge and skills to successfully design a cloud infrastructure that supports multiple types of services. The course takes an “open” approach and outlines infrastructure, application platform, and cloud management platform as the fundamental layers in a cloud. It explores the business needs and challenges that have led the organization to adopt a cloud solution. This course highlights the benefits, challenges, and considerations of design choices and emphasizes the importance of proper requirements gathering in the design process. Additionally, students are provided with opportunities to practice these new skills while performing exercises and labs. This course prepares the student for the Dell Technologies Proven Professional Cloud Architect Specialist level certification exam.

Course Objectives

  • Apply relevant design processes and techniques when producing an effective cloud infrastructure design.
  • Create a cloud infrastructure design that addresses business requirements and constraints that were identified during an assessment.
  • Communicate the benefits, challenges, and considerations of various cloud-enabling technologies as well as their relevance in meeting a business requirement or constraint.
  • Develop a cloud infrastructure design that includes components such as cloud management, application platform, consumer resources, hybrid and multicloud capabilities, and disaster recovery.

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for architects, designers, and consultants who are involved in the planning and design of cloud infrastructure components.

Course Prerequisites

Students are expected to be technical professionals with three or more years of design experience in storage, operating systems, virtualization, networking, business continuity, or disaster recovery. Recommended prerequisites include: Dell EMC Information Storage and Management, Dell EMC Cloud Infrastructure and Services, VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).

What's Included

What’s included?

  • Authorized Courseware
  • Intensive Hands on Skills Development with an Experienced Subject Matter Expert
  • Hands-on practice on real Servers and extended lab support 1.800.482.3172
  • Examination Vouchers & Onsite Certification Testing- (excluding Adobe and PMP Boot Camps)
  • Academy Code of Honor: Test Pass Guarantee
  • Optional: Package for Hotel Accommodations, Lunch and Transportation

Training Solutions

With several convenient training delivery methods offered, The Academy makes getting the training you need easy. Whether you prefer to learn in a classroom or an online live learning virtual environment, training videos hosted online, and private group classes hosted at your site. We offer expert instruction to individuals, government agencies, non-profits, and corporations. Our live classes, on-sites, and online training videos all feature certified instructors who teach a detailed curriculum and share their expertise and insights with trainees. No matter how you prefer to receive the training, you can count on The Academy for an engaging and effective learning experience.

Methods

  • Instructor-Led (the best training format we offer)
  • Live Online Classroom – Online Instructor-Led
  • Self-Paced Video

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Schedule

StartFinishPublic PricePublic Enroll Private PricePrivate Enroll
12/8/202512/12/2025
12/29/20251/2/2026
1/19/20261/23/2026
2/9/20262/13/2026
3/2/20263/6/2026
3/23/20263/27/2026
4/13/20264/17/2026
5/4/20265/8/2026
5/25/20265/29/2026
6/15/20266/19/2026
7/6/20267/10/2026
7/27/20267/31/2026
8/17/20268/21/2026
9/7/20269/11/2026
9/28/202610/2/2026
10/19/202610/23/2026
11/9/202611/13/2026
11/30/202612/4/2026
12/21/202612/25/2026
1/11/20271/15/2027

Curriculum

Agenda

1 – Introduction to Cloud Design

  • Driving digital transformation through cloud
  • Cloud infrastructure design approach, goals, and scope
  • Cloud solution design project lifecycle

2 – Design Parameters

  • Cloud reference architecture
  • General design considerations for cloud infrastructure

3 – Data Collection and Analysis

  • Data collection process and metrics
  • Datacollectiontools
  • Businessvalueanalysis
  • TCOandROI

4 – Architecting a Do-It-Yourself Solution

  • Selection criteria
  • Compute considerations
  • Storageconsiderations
  • Networkconsiderations

5 – Architecting a CI/HCI Solution

  • CI/HCI selection criteria
  • Strategies and design considerations

6 – Cloud Management Platform (CMP)

  • CMPreferencearchitecture
  • CMPinfrastructure
  • Selection criteria for CMP
  • CMP design considerations

7 – Hybrid and Multicloud

  • Hybrid and multicloud use cases
  • Design considerations for hybrid and multicloud
  • Disasterrecoveryconsiderations

8 – Application Development and Deployment Platform

  • Key requirements for application platform
  • Options to build an application platform
  • Design considerations for Do-It-Yourself