SharePoint Online Super User — Lesson 1: Advanced Site and Information Architecture

Lesson Overview

This lesson develops practical understanding of Advanced Site and Information Architecture within the SharePoint Online Super User learning path.

Learners connect the key concepts to a realistic advanced SharePoint Online site ownership and business-user administration scenario and document the decisions, evidence, risks, and improvement opportunities identified during the activity.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the purpose and role of advanced site and information architecture.
• Apply the lesson concepts to a practical advanced SharePoint Online site ownership and business-user administration requirement.
• Recognize security, governance, operational, and quality considerations.
• Validate the result and recommend appropriate next steps.

Topics Covered

• site planning
• hub and navigation concepts
• content types and metadata
• information organization

Hands-On Activity

1. Review the scenario, stakeholders, current process, requirements, and expected outcome.
2. Prepare the required Microsoft environment, design, query, report, script, or configuration.
3. Complete the guided implementation and record important decisions and dependencies.
4. Test the outcome using functional, security, data-quality, and operational checks.
5. Document issues, corrective actions, evidence, and an improvement recommendation.

Validation Checklist

• The solution or analysis matches the documented requirement.
• Configuration, calculations, queries, scripts, or workflows produce the expected result.
• Security, access, governance, data quality, and operational impacts are reviewed.
• Errors and limitations are documented with clear corrective actions.
• The final output includes reusable notes and practical next steps.

Lesson Outcome

After completing this lesson, learners can explain, apply, and validate advanced site and information architecture in a realistic workplace scenario.