Infrastructure Architecture Specialization

Demonstrated understanding of the role of the infrastructure architect, including skills and requirements of the IA role in an organization.

Infrastructure Architecture Capabilities

Access and Identity Management

Demonstrated understanding of the implementation and design of an identity and access solution within an enterprise.

Capacity Planning

Demonstrated understanding of the parameters, constraints, and design requirements for capacity within the environment including storage, network and operations capacity.

Common Application Services

Demonstrated understanding of the common application services offered within the infrastructure and how to convey this understanding to another architect.

Device Management

Demonstrated understanding of the common requirements and solutions for patch management, application and OS deployment and structured management of both.

Infrastructure RAS

Demonstrated understanding of, and ability to design the remote access facilities for an organization.

Network Design

Demonstrated understanding of and the ability to design networks and network components, configuration and management requirements for both solutions and existing infrastructure.

Operations

Demonstrated understanding of and ability to design the operations and management requirements for an IT organization.

System Management and Services

Demonstrated understanding of and ability to design the management and services tools requirement for system, network and solution optimization.

Data Center Design

Demonstrated understanding of and the ability to design physical data center facilities, including access controls and other security concerns.

Provisioning

Demonstrated understanding of the processes and procedures required to efficiently and effectively build out a physical or virtual server or other device.

Disaster Recovery and Backup

Demonstrated understanding of the infrastructure required to support effective disaster recovery and backup/restore processes.

High Availability Computing Environment

Demonstrated understanding of the infrastructure and operational requirements to provide a highly available computing environment, including two or three critical components required for a successful environment.