• Load balancers are a fundamental component in any distributed

• application architecture. In this course, you'll explore what load
• balancers do and where they are used. Then, you'll discover how
• they have evolved into modern day application delivery controllers.
• You'll learn about the different types and features available in
• modern load balancing solutions. You'll then move on to explore
• standard network topologies that incorporate load balancing, as
• well as how to effectively introduce Layer 4 and Layer 7 load
• balancers. You'll learn how a load balancer in the cloud can vary
• from on-prem and examine load balancing across different cloud
• platforms. Finally, you'll learn how to deploy both a Layer 4 and a
• Layer 7 cloud-native load balancing solution on the Microsoft Azure
• platform.

• Understanding design theory, network design, and how load

• balancers work is critical to an effective network deployment. In
• this course, you'll learn about design theory and how to apply it
• to build a reusable patterns. Then, you'll explore network design
• concepts and methods, where you'll examine how an enterprise
• network is structured for maximum efficiency. Next, you'll move on
• to learn about where a load balancer fits into the network
• architecture. You'll explore capacity planning and how to
• right-size your load balancer deployments, as well as
• considerations and best practices for load balancer deployments.
• Finally, you'll explore the methods and algorithms used in load
• balancing.

• The cloud brings many opportunities, but it also brings

• challenges to network design and operational workload placements.
• In this course, you'll learn about the private, public, hybrid, and
• multi-cloud models. You'll explore the challenges and opportunities
• of adopting the cloud and how to plan for a migration. Next, you'll
• examine design patterns, architectures, and topologies of cloud
• deployments, as well as best practices to use when selecting a
• topology. You'll explore options available for DNS routed load
• balancing across data centers. Finally, you'll learn how to design
• a cloud architecture and how to incorporate load balancers for
• various stages of data flow.

• Traditionally, disaster backup and recovery involved backups

• being stored on special hardware such as tape and in multiple
• off-site locations. Disaster recovery often involved manual
• intervention and downtime. With cloud and multi-cloud
• configurations, new techniques take advantage of scalable resource,
• load balancing, and failover for easier replicated backup and
• disaster recovery while maintaining business continuity. In this
• course, you'll learn the history of disaster backup and recovery,
• both prior to the cloud and relating to cloud and multi-cloud.
• You'll learn how responsibilities are managed for disaster backup
• and recovery in the cloud, as well as how various large public
• cloud providers manage data backup. You'll explore how to configure
• disaster backup for the various public cloud providers, challenges
• of implementing cloud disaster backup and recovery, and application
• load balancing with multi-cloud. Finally, you'll learn how load
• balancing applies to data backup and recovery and contrast this
• with application load balancing.

Final Exam: Multi-cloud Load Balancing Principles will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout the Multi-cloud Load Balancing Principles track of the Skillsoft Aspire Load Balancing Multi and Hybrid Cloud Solutions Journey.