40514: Microsoft Cloud Workshop: Data Platform Upgrade and Migration

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in planning and validating a Microsoft data-platform upgrade and migration to Azure through assessment, target architecture, migration execution, cutover, and operational readiness. 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 databases, servers, applications, integrations, dependencies, versions, workloads, owners, and service expectations
• Assess compatibility, performance, availability, security, compliance, licensing, recovery, and migration constraints
• Select target services and design compute, storage, networking, identity, connectivity, availability, backup, and monitoring
• Choose rehost, replatform, refactor, offline, online, phased, pilot, and coexistence approaches based on evidence
• Use assessment and migration tools, remediate blockers, synchronize data, test applications, and rehearse cutover
• Validate row counts, checksums, functionality, performance, security, jobs, reports, integrations, and business acceptance
• Plan rollback, communications, change windows, incident ownership, support, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery
• Optimize costs, performance, governance, documentation, skills, operating procedures, 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.