HCSP-Cloud Migration study plan

Define the six migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, retire) and match each to a realistic workload example you have personally seen or can describe concretely

Draft a one-page migration methodology outline covering discovery, assessment, wave planning, execution, and validation phases, and state what artifact exits each phase

Build a TCO comparison template that separates one-time migration cost from run-rate cost and includes licensing, egress, and dual-running line items

List the seven Rs decision criteria you would use in a portfolio triage and rank them by how early they can be applied with incomplete data

Produce a dependency discovery checklist covering network flows, DNS, identity, certificates, batch schedules, and external integrations

Classify ten sample workloads into migration waves using a scoring model that weighs business criticality, technical complexity, and dependency depth

Write the risk register entries for the top five migration risks you identified, each with a likelihood, impact, and mitigation owner

Define the acceptance criteria you would require before declaring an assessment complete for a single application

Compare rehost, replatform, and refactor approaches for the same three-tier web application and justify which you would pick under a fixed deadline

Identify the application-level changes required when moving from fixed IP addresses to elastic endpoints, including connection pooling and retry behavior

Map how authentication and authorization change when an application moves from on-premises directory services to a cloud identity provider

Draft a per-application runbook section listing pre-migration, migration, and post-migration verification steps

Design a cutover sequence for a multi-tier application that minimizes downtime and states the rollback trigger for each step

Explain the difference between offline, online, and continuous data replication and select the right one for three stated RPO and RTO targets

Describe how schema conversion and data type mapping differ between homogeneous and heterogeneous database migrations, and list two validation checks for each

Outline a data validation approach that compares row counts, checksums, and sampled business-level queries between source and target

Write the migration order for a relational database with referential integrity constraints, including how you sequence tables and disable and re-enable constraints

Calculate the replication bandwidth and catch-up window for a stated dataset size, change rate, and link speed, and show the arithmetic

Identify the top three causes of replication lag during a bulk load and state a mitigation for each

Draft the rollback plan for a database cutover, including how you would reconcile writes made to the target after the switch

Translate an on-premises network design into a cloud equivalent covering subnets, routing, NAT, and hybrid connectivity options

Compare compute sizing approaches and explain how you would right-size an instance family from observed utilization data

List the identity and access prerequisites for a platform migration, including role separation and least-privilege boundaries between migration and operations roles

Describe how you would migrate shared services such as DNS, monitoring agents, and backup infrastructure without breaking dependent workloads

Build a cutover checklist with named go and no-go criteria, communication points, and a decision owner for each checkpoint

Define the validation test set for a migrated workload covering functional, performance, security, and integration checks

Write the rollback decision criteria and the maximum tolerable rollback window for a stated workload

Draft the post-cutover hypercare plan covering monitoring thresholds, escalation paths, and the exit criteria for ending hypercare

Define the post-migration cost and performance review cadence and the specific metrics you would track at each review

Draft three governance controls covering tagging, change management, and access review, and state how each is enforced

Revisit your week 1 methodology outline and revise it with what you learned, noting each change and why

Complete a timed practice set across all seven domains and log every missed question by domain and root cause