Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect Expert

Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect Expert

As a candidate for this certification, you’re a Dynamics 365 professional who advises stakeholders and translates business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. You design cohesive solutions for your customers because you know how to work with the essential architectural components of Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps. You have extensive domain knowledge in one or more industry verticals. Plus, you understand how decisions in each area affect the overall solution. In addition, you’re familiar with platforms, tools, and functional areas, such as finance, supply chain management, and manufacturing.

Skills measured

Course Outline

Gather requirements

• identify operational and organizational challenges that impact a business
• identify existing business processes and opportunities to optimize business processes
• gather information about expected transaction volume
• categorize business requirements and perform gap fit analyses
• review and validate business requirements throughout the solution lifecycle

Define the solution architecture

• map business requirements to functional components
• evaluate whether to build versus buy for selected business requirements
• identify opportunities to integrate other Microsoft technologies
• select solution design patterns
• select the appropriate tools to fulfill customer requirements

Select a deployment strategy

• develop a change management and adoption process
• select a deployment model and identify instances and environments required for the selected deployment model
• describe the Dynamics 365 One Version strategy and the effects of One Version on solutions
• segment solution development and delivery into logical phases
• provide alternative methodologies and approaches for deploying modifications
• determine solution maintenance cadence and timelines
• identify upgrade scenarios and select appropriate tools
• understanding success by design aspects

Describe Lifecycle Services (LCS) tools

• understand the use cases and capabilities of different LCS tools
• understand the use cases and capabilities Business Process Modeler (BPM)
• understand the use cases and capabilities LCS Methodologies
• create a usage profile to describe current or projected usage
• describe uses cases and capabilities for LCS downloadable tools

Manage interactions with FastTrack

• identify the value proposition for FastTrack
• identify FastTrack engagement types and personnel roles
• describe typical FastTrack workshop scoping and the inputs for each workshop
• describe go-live checklist elements

Determine support options

• develop a support plan and strategy
• define post-go-live support plans including response times and service-level agreements
  (SLAs)
• describe use cases and capabilities for the LCS Support tool

Define a performance testing strategy

• define performance goals and requirements
• identify performance monitoring and testing tools
• define performance benchmarks and success criteria
• design a performance and load testing strategy
• troubleshoot performance issues

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