Lesson 1: What is a Technical Solution Architect?

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   welcome to digital assets technical solution architect certification path a digital asset certified technical solution architect or TSA serves as a key technical leader with a well-rounded expertise in aligning demo Solutions with business goals and vision and providing technical guidance to project teams so that they can successfully deliver a high performance robust and scalable dammo solution in this lesson we will learn about the

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   roles and responsibilities of a TSA and how digital assets TSA certification path equip solution Architects to meet the expectations from this role we will also go over the list of courses in this path and their brief overviews followed by the assessments to be completed for certification TSA plays a strategic role in aligning daml Solutions with business vision and a technical leaders ship role in managing stakeholder expectations and project implementation this

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   multi-layered role can be summarized at two levels at a strategic level the TSA works with Business Leaders to map their Vision to technical capabilities of dill and Canton helps Business Leaders navigate the architectural choices by providing them with a clear view on pros and cons of each decision guides the transformation of business workflows from conventional technology IES to the

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   Innovative daml and Canton technology platform and ensures that the daml solution integrates well with their it landscape at a technical leadership level a TSA performs a thorough risk assessment of building a DL solution and communicates the riskmanagement plan to all project stakeholders sets the stakeholders expectations in terms of the functional and nonfunctional capabilities of DL Solutions and ensures that the the project team understands

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   and implements best practices related to daml and Canton technology as is evident a TSA can significantly impact the project outcomes and requires a wide range of skills experiences and expertise to fulfill the expectations from this role while this course provides many useful insights and helps build conceptual foundations to design a good DL solution architecture there are certain prerequisites that are critical to get the most out of this certification let us take a look at what

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   those prerequisites are the first prerequisite is in terms of experience required to understand the technologies that underly D Solutions the TSA certification path is designed for those it professionals who have at least 10 years of relevant solution architecture experience this experience can be wide ranging though generally it is expected that the training has created elegant solutions to complex problems optimize security concerns and weight cost and

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   performance trade-offs at minimum they should have experience in considering and Advising on tradeoffs related to maintainability upgradeability extensibility and performance of Enterprise systems they should have demonstrated experience leading Technical Resources and collaborating with others on production implement ations they should be fluent in computer science fundamentals such as data structures algorithms and design patterns with the ability to fluently

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   translate them into working elegant code while the above experiences are generic in nature they must translate into some hard skills that help map the learnings from this course into real world implementations for example an aspiring TSA should have a good grasp of identity and access management M protocols such as oaf 2 deployment platforms such as kubernetes and Cloud platforms such as Azure Oz or gcp apart from these experiences and

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   skills there are three certifications from digital asset that must be completed before commencing on the TSA certification path these are daml philosophy damel fundamentals and DL contract developer with these prerequisite experience experiences and certifications you are now ready to start on the TSA certification path the TSA certification path comprises four courses Each of which has multiple lessons these courses are introduction

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    to TSA solution topology functional requirements and non-functional requirements these four courses cover a broad spectrum of Concepts required to build a DL solution let us take a look at some of the key Concepts covered in each of these courses the first course titled introduction to TSA teaches when and why organizations should adopt daml and Canon Technologies and how they can assess Which business use cases are most

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    valuable to implement as daml Solutions the second course titled solution topology builds upon the fundamentals covered in the prerequisite certifications and Dives deeper into the infrastructural elements of DL Solutions their internal architecture especially focusing on their backend design it also provides an overview of the development life cycle of a DL solution the third course titled functional requirements focuses on designing workflows in a way that best

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    leverages the power of daml and Canton platform it starts with techniques to map functional requirements to damel workflows and then takes a deep dive into the workflow design and the related data strategy it concludes with understanding different types of integration options with other internal systems and with I am systems having understood the internal design of a DL solution the fourth course titled non-functional requirements provides insights into how the external infrastructural components

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    and the internal workflow designs can be fine-tuned to meet the particular latency throughput availability and scale a ability requirements these four courses provide a 360° view of a daml solution its alignment with business goals its power to transform use cases and its ability to develop a robust platform that can scale and adapt with changing business needs each of these courses will have several lessons and each lesson will

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    have a short self- assessment quiz to reinforce some key concepts of the lesson once the trainee has completed all four courses they can take the certification exam administered online with questions from all four courses the successful completion of this exam will result in the traine becoming da certified Technical Solutions architect let us summarize the da certified Technical Solutions architect or TSA is a technical leadership role

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    that is critical to align business objectives and technological choices as well as providing technical leadership in Building daml Solutions this certification path for a TSA comprises four courses introduction to TSA solution topology functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements the assessments for the certification are at two levels self assessment after each lesson in all four courses and certification exam at the

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    end of all four courses