Course Outline
Identify Solution Requirements
Identify business requirements
• describe an organization including companies, divisions, and other entities
• visualize an organization structure
• identify reporting requirements, including operational, analytical, and externally facing reports
Perform gap analyses
• categorize business requirements and determine what gaps exist between current apps and services and the proposed solution
• identify the functional business processes that must be added, removed, or modified
Define compliance requirements
• define audit requirements
• determine localization requirements and design a localization strategy, including taxes and user interfaces
• identify regulatory and governmental compliance requirements, including data privacy regulations
Define security requirements
• design a strategy for segregating duties
• design the security strategy and architecture for a solution
Determine licensing needs and costs
• evaluate the costs and benefits of solution options
• determine licensing requirements for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations and
third-party apps and services
• estimate upfront and ongoing infrastructure and cloud services costs
• estimate the long-term costs for a solution
Design Solution Components
Design business processes
• identify use cases and business optimization opportunities, including upgrade and
data migration scenarios
• map requirements and business process steps to a solution
• select solution functional components
Design data migration strategies
• identify and characterize data sources that must be migrated
• design a master data management strategy
• develop a data migration strategy
• develop a data cut-over plan
Design system integrations
• identify options to increase return on investment by integrating Office 365 apps and services and other Microsoft solutions
• identify options for integrating with third-party solutions
• select integration strategies
• recommend add-on technologies and services
Design solution infrastructure
• select a cloud-based or on-premises implementation
• identify required infrastructure apps, services, components, and features
• define performance requirements
Define Solution Testing and Management Strategies
Develop an application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy
• identify the available instance types
• select instance types for a solution
• identify use cases, integration points, and methodologies for implementing Azure DevOps functionality
Recommend Lifecycle Services (LCS) tools
• identify the available LCS tools, including Business Process Modeler (BPM), Regression
Suite Automation Tool (RSAT) and Regulatory Updates
• select LCS tools to support a solution
Define a testing strategy
• design a strategy for performance and load testing
• define a regression testing strategy, including what requires testing and the order of testing
• determine when to use RSAT, SysTest, and other tools and technologies
• define performance goals and requirements, predict transaction volumes
