Infrastructure Architecture

Infrastructure Architecture

The following table was sourced from the Business Architect Guild working files.  

Key	Skill Level of Expertise
Skill Class	Skill Type
Foundation	1 Awareness
Associate	2 Basic Information Demonstration
	3 Individualized Knowledge
	4 Practice
Professional	5 Delivery
	6 Connectivity of Ideas
	7 Enterprise Level Leadership
Master	8 Industry Mentorship
	9 Research
	10 Industry Leadership

The score in the self assessment column was defined by an assessment of the work done throughout my career and how others would score my skills.

	Infrastructure Architecture Class Name	IA Class Definition	Self Assessment
1	Infrastructure Architecture Introduction	Understanding of the role of the infrastructure architect. An introduction to the topics, skills and requirements of the IA role in an organization.	7
2	Access and Identity Management	Understanding the implementation and design of an identity and access solution within an enterprise.	10
3	Capacity Planning	Understanding the parameters’, constraints and design requirements for capacity within the environment (introduction) including storage, network and operations capacity.	8
4	Common Application Services	Understanding the common application services offered within the infrastructure deployed and how to convey this understanding to another architect.	7
5	Device Management	Understanding the common requirements and solutions for patch management, application and OS deployment and structured management of both.	8
6	Infrastructure RAS	Understanding of an ability to design the remote access facilities for an organization.	9
7	Network Design	Understanding and design of networks and network components, configuration and management requirements for both solutions and existing infrastructure.	7
8	Operations	Understanding of and design of the operations and management requirements for an IT organization.	7
9	System Management and Services	Understanding of a design of the management and services tools requirement for system, network and solution optimization.	7
10	Data Center Design	Understanding the design of physical data center facilities, including access controls and other security concerns.	7
11	Provisioning	Understanding the processes and procedures required to efficiently and effectively build out a physical or virtual server or other device.	7
12	Disaster Recovery and Backup	Understanding the infrastructure required to support effective disaster recovery and backup/restore processes.	7
13	High Availability Computing Environment	Understanding the infrastructure and operational requirements to provide a highly available computing environment (covers two of the three subjects necessary to provide high availability).	5