Banking infrastructure: fundamentals and production decisions

Objectives and progression

Independent professional pathway for understanding infrastructure supporting banking services and making evidence-based project and operational decisions. Six modules connect services to dependencies, identity, connectivity, recovery, observability, batch, maintenance, decommissioning, FinOps, and operational transition. Includes 24 questions and eight original cases covering fictional NAV, certificates, restoration, shared DNS, unknown outcomes, quarterly reporting, and weekend changes. Internal assessment of 26 decisions in 60 minutes. Primary BCBS, ECB, AWS, OWASP, Kubernetes, FinOps, and NIST sources. This is not external certification, a bank procedure, or regulatory-conformance validation.

Audience: IT project managers, APS teams, L3 support, infrastructure owners, and financial-services production professionals.

Prerequisites: Basic systems, networking, and application-support knowledge. Cases use synthetic data and require no banking-system access.

270 estimated study minutes

• Translate a business need into verifiable architecture and acceptance.
• Distinguish failures by layer and preserve access control and evidence.
• Assess failure boundaries and demonstrate recovery of usable service.
• Connect technical signals to outcomes and reprocessing decisions.
• Include maintenance, compatibility, and retirement in project scope.
• Balance costs, external dependencies, and demonstrated operational capability.

Modules

1. Services, dependencies, and evidence
2. Identity, connectivity, and protection
3. Resilience and data recovery
4. Operations, batch, and observability
5. Change, obsolescence, and decommissioning
6. Cloud, costs, and RUN autonomy

Continue learning

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• Middleware
• Disaster Recovery
• Monitoring and Observability
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References and version

DR banking infrastructure professional assessment2026.10

• Principles for operational resilience · 2026-10-01
• ECB Guide on outsourcing cloud services · 2026-10-01
• ECB finalises Guide on outsourcing cloud services · 2026-10-01
• REL13 Plan for disaster recovery · 2026-10-01
• REL9 Back up data · 2026-10-01
• REL10 Fault isolation · 2026-10-01
• Shared responsibility model · 2026-10-01
• OPS7 Operational readiness · 2026-10-01
• COST4 Decommission resources · 2026-10-01
• REL6 Monitor workload resources · 2026-10-01
• Making retries safe with idempotent APIs · 2026-10-01
• Transport Layer Security Cheat Sheet · 2026-10-01
• Logging Cheat Sheet · 2026-10-01
• Kubernetes logging architecture · 2026-10-01
• FinOps allocation capability · 2026-10-01
• NIST SP800-88 Revision2 · 2026-10-01
• NIST SP800-40 Revision4 · 2026-10-01