PR-602: Migrate and Secure Windows Server and SQL Server (Migrate Compute) — Lesson 4: Cutover Validation, Operational Handover, and Modernization Roadmap

Topics Covered

• Plan high availability, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and patching
• Troubleshoot replication, connectivity, authentication, cutover, and performance issues
• Validate migrated workloads and create an optimization and modernization roadmap
• End-to-end scenario integration, decision trade-offs, and stakeholder impact
• Validation checklist, measurable acceptance criteria, and evidence capture
• Prioritized improvement roadmap, ownership, and next learning steps

Guided Practice Steps

1. Translate the lesson requirement into a clear PR-602: Migrate and Secure Windows Server and SQL Server (Migrate Compute) implementation or analysis objective.
2. Document assumptions, selected tools or features, dependencies, risks, and expected results.
3. Perform the guided task, capture evidence, and compare the result with the acceptance criteria.
4. Record issues, corrective actions, and a reusable operational or development note.

Practical Activity

Validate cutover outcomes and produce an optimization and modernization roadmap.

• Define the scenario, inputs, constraints, and expected outcome.
• Complete the activity and preserve screenshots, outputs, logs, code, or decision evidence.
• Review the result, identify gaps, and document corrective or improvement actions.

Validation Checklist

• The stated requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• Configuration, code, data, or design decisions are documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational considerations are reviewed.
• Evidence supports the conclusion and the next action is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Cutover Validation, Operational Handover, and Modernization Roadmap within a realistic PR-602: Migrate and Secure Windows Server and SQL Server (Migrate Compute) scenario and support the result with validation evidence.