Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Migration Architect Professional — Lesson 1: Migration Discovery, Application Assessment, Dependencies, Waves, and Business Cases

Learning Objectives

• Interpret how migration discovery, application assessment, dependencies, waves, and business cases changes application behaviour, data, accounting, or service delivery.
• Perform a repeatable sequence with known inputs, controls, outputs, and rollback points.
• Prove security, correctness, performance, recoverability, and support readiness.

Detailed Topics

• Migration Discovery
• Application Assessment
• Dependencies
• Waves
• Business Cases
• ownership, prerequisites, data, and acceptance criteria for migration discovery, application assessment, dependencies, waves, and business cases
• security, control, integration, performance, recovery, and support implications

Instructor Demonstration

Demonstrate migration discovery, application assessment, dependencies, waves, and business cases within a portfolio of applications assessed, sequenced, migrated to OCI, validated, cut over, and stabilized with controlled rollback options. Use representative data and capture discovery inventory, dependency maps so another practitioner can verify the result.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Migration Architect Professional activity focused on migration discovery, application assessment, dependencies, waves, and business cases. Introduce a realistic case of incomplete discovery, isolate the cause, apply a reversible correction, and rerun the acceptance checks.

1. Record the requirement, environment, identities, dependencies, data, controls, and expected result.
2. Perform the workflow and capture course-specific evidence before and after each material change.
3. Test normal, boundary, failure, security, reconciliation, recovery, and operational conditions.
4. Document the root cause, correction, rollback, owner, support action, and next improvement priority.

Scenario Analysis

• Separate mandatory requirements from convenience requests and local workarounds.
• Compare the proposed approach against security, reliability, usability, cost, and audit expectations.
• Select the smallest supportable change and assign follow-up ownership.

Troubleshooting Guidance

When migration discovery, application assessment, dependencies, waves, and business cases does not produce the expected result, confirm scope, effective dates, identities, data context, dependencies, and recent changes. Review the most relevant discovery inventory, dependency maps before editing configuration. Test one reversible hypothesis at a time, verify recovery, and confirm that the fix does not create incomplete discovery elsewhere.

Validation Checklist

• Prerequisites, ownership, data context, settings, and expected outcomes are documented.
• The result is reproducible and supported by discovery inventory, dependency maps.
• Security, controls, data quality, integration, performance, recovery, and support conditions are reviewed.
• Exceptions, corrective action, rollback, approvals, monitoring, and handover are recorded.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Migration Discovery, Application Assessment, Dependencies, Waves, and Business Cases in a realistic Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Migration Architect Professional situation and defend the result with course-specific evidence.