Deploy database offerings on selected platforms
Understand automated deployment
Apply patches and updates for hybrid and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) deployment
Deploy hybrid SQL Server solutions
Recommend an appropriate database offering based on specific requirements
Evaluate the security aspects of the possible database offering
Recommend a table partitioning solution
Recommend a database sharding solution
Configure Azure SQL Database for scale and performance
Configure Azure SQL Managed Instance for scale and performance
Configure table partitioning
Configure SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines for scale and performance
Configure data compression
Evaluate requirements for the migration
Evaluate offline or online migration strategies
Implement an online migration strategy