Description

Candidates for this exam are Microsoft Dynamics 365 professionals who advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.

Candidates should have knowledge of all Dynamics 365 apps and Power Platform. They must have deep understanding of Finance and Operations apps. In addition, they have extensive domain knowledge in one or more industry verticals. This role requires understanding how decisions in each area affects the overall solution.

Course Fee: £1,999 + VAT

Objectives

After completing this course, candidates will be able to:

• Architect solutions
• Define solution strategies
• Manage implementations
• Manage testing

Who Should Attend

Candidates for this exam are Microsoft Dynamics 365 professionals who advise stakeholders and
translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.
Candidates should have knowledge of all Dynamics 365 apps and Power Platform. They must
have deep understanding of Finance and Operations apps. In addition, they have extensive
domain knowledge in one or more industry verticals. This role requires understanding how
decisions in each area affects the overall solution

Prerequisites

• Candidates must have a breadth and depth of knowledge and experience on industry standards and product capabilities.
• Candidates must have broad expertise in both functional and technical areas of Dynamics solution.
• Candidates should know about platforms, tools, and functional areas such as finance, supply chain management and manufacturing.
• In addition, they should have extensive domain knowledge in one or more customer industries.

Course Outline

Module 1: Architect solutions
Gather requirements

• identify operational and organizational challenges that impact a business
• identify existing business processes and opportunities to optimize business processes
• gather information about expected transaction volume
• categorize business requirements and perform gap fit analyses
• review and validate business requirements throughout the solution lifecycle
  Define the solution architecture
• map business requirements to functional components
• evaluate whether to build versus buy for selected business requirements
• identify opportunities to integrate other Microsoft technologies
• select solution design patterns
• select the appropriate tools to fulfill customer requirements
  Describe and document the solution blueprint
• define an organization and organization locations including intercompany information
• document the implementation timeline including roll-out strategies
• define the business process catalog and document solution gaps
• define instances, environments, and solution components
• develop a disaster recovery strategy
• identify required integration and interface details
• define required business intelligence and reporting components
• identify required security roles
  

  Module 2: Define solution strategies

  Select a deployment strategy

• develop a change management and adoption process
• select a deployment model and identify instances and environments required for the
  selected deployment model
• describe the Dynamics 365 One Version strategy and the effects of One Version on
  solutions
• segment solution development and delivery into logical phases
• provide alternative methodologies and approaches for deploying modifications
• determine solution maintenance cadence and timelines
• identify upgrade scenarios and select appropriate tools
• understanding success by design aspects
  Define an application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy
• define a code management and data flow strategy
• define a Power Platform solution management strategy
• determine which build automation capabilities to implement
• define a roll-back strategy for Finance and Operations apps and Power Platform
  solutions
  Determine a data management strategy
• differentiate between transactional and historical data
• define data quality and data validation process
• define data cleansing and transformation strategies
• define data dependencies
• develop a data migration strategy for master, transactional, reference, parameter, and
  document data entities
• develop data cut-over and data retention plans
  Define the security architecture
• differentiate between Azure, Dynamics 365, and infrastructure security
• describe Azure and infrastructure security-related elements
• describe use cases for and capabilities of record-level and role-based security in
  Dynamics 365

  Module 3: Manage implementations

  Describe Lifecycle Services (LCS) tools

• understand the use cases and capabilities of different LCS tools
• understand the use cases and capabilities Business Process Modeler (BPM)
• understand the use cases and capabilities LCS Methodologies
• create a usage profile to describe current or projected usage
• describe uses cases and capabilities for LCS downloadable tools
  Manage interactions with FastTrack
• identify the value proposition for FastTrack
• identify FastTrack engagement types and personnel roles
• describe typical FastTrack workshop scoping and the inputs for each workshop
• describe go-live checklist elements
  Determine support options
• develop a support plan and strategy
• define post-go-live support plans including response times and service-level agreements
  (SLAs)
• describe use cases and capabilities for the LCS Support tool
  Determine licensing requirements
• determine the types of licenses required
• estimate the number of licenses required by using the License Sizing estimator
• describe the process for estimating ongoing software licensing costs
  

  Module 4: Manage testing

  Define a testing strategy

• define a regression testing strategy
• identify opportunities for automated testing
• review use cases and test coverage for all scenarios
• determine when to use RSAT versus SysTest framework versus Postman versus ATL and
  other tools
  Define a performance testing strategy
• define performance goals and requirements
• identify performance monitoring and testing tools
• define performance benchmarks and success criteria
• design a performance and load testing strategy
• troubleshoot performance issues

About the Trainer

A Microsoft Dynamics Certified Trainer.

Course Fee

£1,999+VAT