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The IBM Cloud for Financial Services Specialty prepares a professional to be able to assist with the creation or migration of regulated workloads to the IBM Cloud for Financial Services. Candidates should be able to identify the approach, components, and framework within IBM Cloud for Financial Services, and articulate the motivation, benefits, and risk factors for financial clients to move their regulated workloads to the public cloud. Learners will also review the technology considerations and dependencies as it relates to application migration of customer workload environments using IBM Cloud for Financial Services and determine appropriate technical solutions moving towards modern, cloud-native architectures. Upon successful completion of IBM Cloud for Financial Services, learners enrolled in the Verified Certificate Track will receive an edX certificate as well as a code for 50% off the IBM Cloud for Financial Services certification exam. Upon receiving a passing score on the exam, the IBM Cloud for Financial Services v2 Specialty certification will be awarded by Credly.

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Learning objectives

  • Ibm cloud for financial services:
  • Define the purpose, program elements, and benefits of ibm cloud for financial services
  • Outline the target clients for cloud service providers
  • Define the key market segments of the banking and insurance industry
  • Distinguish between the various challenges within the banking and insurance industry
  • Components, risk, and compliance:
  • Identify how ibm cloud for financial services uses the define-implement-assess model to meet regulatory requirements
  • Review the purpose and benefits of the ibm cloud framework for financial services, fs validation, and the security and compliance center
  • Define the various regulatory guidelines and industry standards that ensure financial compliance
  • Review the forms of risk and risk mitigation strategies within ibm cloud for financial services ecosystem
  • Customer workload environment:
  • Identify approaches, considerations, and dependencies of application migration and modernization
  • Assess design and implementation principles for architecting an application related to financial services
  • Articulate the value of ibm tools that support customer workload environments
  • Technical solution design:
  • Differentiate between the three main reference architectures available to fs cloud enterprises
  • Identify architecture building blocks used in fs cloud deployable architectures
  • Identify the benefits of cloud hyper protect crypto services (hpcs) to fs cloud clients
  • Implementation considerations:
  • Identify the purpose and benefits of enterprise account management
  • Recall the benefits and requirements for financial services validation
  • Understand how devsecops principles, continuous integration, and code risk analyzer help during implementation
  • Compliance, slos, and slas:
  • Identify the challenges within the financial services sector and how ibm security and compliance center helps to achieve compliance
  • Distinguish between the various tools that help with monitoring security and compliance
  • Review the importance of service level agreements and how they play a role into system availability
  • Identify the three support tiers within ibm cloud

Syllabus

Customer Workload Environment
Module 4: Technical Solution Design
Module 1: IBM Cloud for Financial Services
You will cover the following topic:
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An Introduction to IBM Cloud for Financial Services
Module 2: Components, Risk, and Compliance
Components, Risk, and Compliance
Module 3: Customer Workload Environment
Technical Solution Design
Module 5: Implementation Considerations
Implementation Considerations
Module 6: Compliance, SLOs, and SLAs
Compliance, SLOs, and SLAs

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Focuses on IBM's Financial Services Cloud specifically, providing specialized training for professionals in this domain
Aligns with industry needs by teaching skills and knowledge relevant to the financial services sector and its regulatory landscape
Emphasizes practical application with guidance on customer workload environments and technical solution design
Provides tools and techniques for IBM Cloud for Financial Services implementation, including DevSecOps principles and Continuous Integration
May require prior knowledge of IBM Cloud services or financial services industry regulations for optimal comprehension
Course is set to be retired, so its availability and future support may be limited

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Review the terms and concepts within Financial services
This will help you strengthen your understanding to build upon when the course begins.
Browse courses on Financial Services
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  • Create a mind map or drawing which outlines the key terms, products, and concepts related to financial services.
  • Make note of any financial service offerings you know or have used.
Build a basic IBM Cloud for Financial Service Architecture
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  • Find an existing architectural diagram for IBM Cloud for Financial Services.
  • Locate a tutorial on how to set up IBM Cloud for Financial Services.
  • Implement the tutorial and develop the basic architecture.
  • Modify the architecture and write notes on the changes and enhancements you make.
Practice questions on IBM Cloud for Financial Services.
Answering practice questions will help you build a stronger understanding and prepare for the exam.
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  • Locate practice questions for the IBM Cloud for Financial Services Exam.
  • Set a timer to mimic real testing conditions.
  • Answer the practice questions and review your answers.
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Discuss Implementation Considerations in IBM Cloud for Financial Services with Peers
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  • Find a peer who has also taken or is enrolled in the course.
  • Choose a specific topic in the Implementation Considerations module to focus on.
  • Research the topic on your own to come prepared.
  • Discuss your findings with your peer.
  • Reflect on the discussion.
Mentor a new student in IBM Cloud for Financial Services
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  • Find a student who is new to the IBM Cloud for Financial Services.
  • Offer to mentor them and help them get started.
  • Meet with them regularly to discuss the course material.
  • Answer their questions.
  • Provide feedback on their work.
Contribute to an open-source project related to IBM Cloud for Financial Services
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  • Find an open-source project related to IBM Cloud for Financial Services.
  • Familiarize yourself with the project's codebase.
  • Identify an area where you can contribute.
  • Make a pull request with your contribution.
  • Collaborate with other contributors to improve your contribution.

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