Learning path · Advanced
IT Architecture
Move from configuring systems to designing environments with stated trade offs.
What you will be able to do
- Produce a design with requirements, constraints and rejected alternatives
- Identify failure points before they are discovered in production
- Use reference architectures as a starting point rather than a template
The path
Work through these in order.
- 01IT Architecture Fundamentals
Requirements, patterns and decisions.
Designing technology environments deliberately: requirements, constraints, patterns, trade offs and documented decisions.
- 02Network Architecture
Zones, routing and enforcement points.
The structural design of an organisation's networks: segmentation, routing, redundancy, edge services and policy enforcement points.
- 03Identity Architecture
Directories, tiers and lifecycle.
The design of directories, identity providers, authentication flows, privilege tiers and lifecycle processes that govern all access.
- 04Security Architecture
Control coverage across layers.
The deliberate arrangement of controls across identity, endpoints, applications, data, network and infrastructure, aligned to a maturity model.
- 05High Availability Architecture
Removing single points of failure.
A design pattern that removes single points of failure across every layer of a service's dependency chain.
- 06Backup Architecture
Designing for recovery certainty.
A layered protection design that survives ransomware: local speed, secondary media, offsite distance and an immutable, credential isolated copy.
- 07Enterprise Architecture
Aligning technology with business capability.
Aligning technology capability with business capability through documented current state, target state and a sequenced roadmap.