Present and Defend: Second Mock

In this chapter, you will continue creating an end-to-end solution for your second full mock scenario. You already covered most of the scenario in Chapter 14, Practice the Review Board: Second Mock, but you still have plenty of topics to cover. In this chapter, you will continue analyzing and solutioning each of the shared requirements and then practice creating some presentation pitches.

To give you the closest possible experience to the real-life exam, you will go through a practice Q&A session and defend, justify, and change the solution based on the judges’ feedback.

After reading this chapter, you are advised to reread the scenario and try to solution it on your own. In this chapter, you are going to cover the following main topics:

• Continue analyzing the requirements and creating an end-to-end solution
• Presenting and justifying your solution

By the end of this chapter, you will have completed your second mock...

Continue Analyzing the Requirements and Creating an End-to-End Solution

You covered the business process requirements earlier in Chapter 14, Practice the Review Board: Second Mock. By the end of that chapter, you had a good understanding of the potential data model and landscape. You have already marked some objects as potential LDVs.

Next, there is a set of data migration requirements that you need to solve. Once you complete them, you will have an even better understanding of the potential data volumes in each data model’s objects, which will help you create an LDV mitigation strategy. Now, you can first start with the data migration requirements.

Analyzing the Data Migration Requirements

This section’s requirements might impact some of your diagrams, such as the landscape architecture diagram or the data model.

The company has over 80 million customers in its legacy CRMs. The data is expected to contain a significant number of duplicates.

After analyzing...

Presenting and Justifying Your Solution

It is now time to create your presentation. This is something you would have to do on the go during the review board as you would likely consume the whole three hours creating the solution and supporting artifacts.

As you learned before in Chapter 13, Present and Defend: First Mock, you need to plan your presentation upfront and use your time management skills to ensure you describe the solution with enough detail in the given time. You will learn some time-keeping techniques in Appendix, Tips and Tricks, and the Way Forward.

You are now familiar with the structure of the board presentation. You start with the structured part of the presentation and then switch to the catch-all mode. As a reminder, these two different presentation phases include the following:

• Structured part: In this part, you describe specific pre-planned elements of your solution, starting with an overall solution introduction, including a brief walk-through...

Summary

In this chapter, you continued developing the solution for the second full mock scenario. You explored more challenging data modeling, accessibility, and security requirements. You also created comprehensive LDV mitigation and data migration strategies. You tackled challenges with reporting and had a good look at the development and release management process and its supporting governance model.

You then dived into specific topics and created an engaging presentation pitch that described the proposed solution from end to end. You used diagrams to help explain the architecture more thoroughly and practiced the Q&A stage using various potential questions.

Congratulations! You have now completed two full mock scenarios. You can practice solving these scenarios as many times as possible. You can also try to add or remove requirements to them to make things more challenging. The mini-scenarios you used in this book are also handy to practice a shorter version from time...