Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Architecture practices
• Architectural foundations
  • Introduction and scope
  • Architectural approaches
  • Design principles
    • Choosing architecture components
    • Extend ArcGIS with SDKs and APIs
    • Environment isolation
  • Deployment concepts and approaches
    • Virtualization and ArcGIS Enterprise
    • VDI and ArcGIS Pro
    • Cloud services and providers
    • Working in secure environments
    • Enterprise and cloud migration
    • DNS, naming, and URLs
    • Forward proxies
    • Mobile app deployment
  • Diagramming resources
• Architecting for success
  • Build and manage a GIS program
  • Define and implement a geospatial strategy
  • Content and data governance
  • Staff roles, development, and training
  • Collaboration approaches and recommendations
  • Capability delivery
  • Change management
  • Application implementation strategy
  • Upgrades and patching
• Automation
  • Automation pillar
  • Automate ArcGIS software deployment
  • Infrastructure as code and DevOps
  • Automation with ArcGIS Pro
  • Automation with ArcGIS Enterprise
  • Automation with ArcGIS Online
  • Workflow automation
• Integration
  • Integration pillar
  • Integration approaches and methods
  • Integrate with external systems
    • Understand webhooks
    • API management
    • Data pipelines and ETLs
    • Data lakes and data warehouses
    • Knowledge graphs
• Observability
  • Observability pillar
  • Monitor system performance
  • Define and capture telemetry
• Performance and scalability
  • Performance and scalability pillar
  • Optimize apps, data, and services
  • Workload separation
  • Design an effective test strategy
  • Tools for performance testing
• Reliability
  • Reliability pillar
  • Load balancing and reverse proxies
  • High availability
  • Backups and disaster recovery
  • ArcGIS and IT infrastructure monitoring
• Security
  • Security pillar
  • Authentication models and providers
  • Authorization and access models
  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Secure network design
  • Zero trust architecture
  • Securing public data
  • PKI and client certificates
  • Effective security scanning
  • Identity-aware proxies
  • Web application firewalls