Migrating On-Premises

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in assessing on-premises systems and planning secure, resilient, testable cloud migration waves. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Inventory applications, infrastructure, data, dependencies, owners, service levels, costs, and constraints
• Define migration drivers, success measures, risks, governance, stakeholders, and phased scope
• Compare rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, and replace decisions for representative workloads
• Design identity, networking, security, landing-zone, backup, observability, and connectivity foundations
• Plan replication, synchronization, cutover sequencing, testing, rollback, and service continuity
• Validate functionality, data integrity, security, performance, integrations, and user acceptance
• Prepare communication, change, support, ownership, incident, recovery, and decommissioning procedures
• Measure cloud cost, performance, reliability, security posture, and post-migration improvements

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.