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CL-212 Cloud & Platform

Azure Solutions Architecture

Architect on Azure with the same rigor as CL-202: availability zones and sets, App Service vs AKS vs Functions selection, messaging with Service Bus and Event Grid, storage and Cosmos DB trade-offs, and Azure-native DR — closed with panel-defended scenario designs.

B4Professional
6modules
40skill atoms
2role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

6 modules, 40 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Compute Selection7 skill atoms
App ServiceAKSFunctions decision treesContainer Apps & KEDA scalingconsumption vs premium plan cold startsVNet integration per compute optionstateful workload constraints
2Resilient Topologies7 skill atoms
zonesfront doortraffic distributionzone-redundant vs zonal servicesFront Door vs Traffic Manager vs Application Gateway rolesWAF at the edgepaired-region strategy
3Messaging & Events7 skill atoms
Service BusEvent Gridpatternsqueues vs topics & subscriptionssessions for ordered processingdead-letter & max delivery countduplicate detection
4Data Trade-offs6 skill atoms
Azure SQLCosmos consistency modelsCosmos partition key designRU/s provisioned vs serverlessHyperscale vs Business Critical tiersfailover groups & geo-replication
5DR the Azure Way7 skill atoms
ASRgeo-redundancyRTO/RPO designRA-GRS read accessvault backup retention policytest failover without commitreplication lag measurement
6Design Defense6 skill atoms
scenario reviews against Well-ArchitectedSKU selection defenseidentity boundary justificationfailure-mode walkthroughpricing calculator cost estimatenamed residual risks
Where it fits

CL-212 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 2 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Cloud / Solutions Architect

Practitioner stage
CL-202CL-212CL-223

Enterprise Architect

Professional stage
CL-202CL-212CL-223

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B4.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

Run CL-212 for your team.

This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.

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