Architecture Challenges
Realistic enterprise scenarios inspired by Microsoft architecture projects. Make the decisions, see the trade-offs, and learn how architects reason.
Lakehouse or Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
Choose the right store for a mixed analytics workload.
A retailer is consolidating on Microsoft Fabric. Data engineers work in Python and Spark on semi-structured clickstream data, while a BI team writes T-SQL and needs governed, low-latency reporting for finance. Leadership wants one platform, not a zoo of engines.
Microsoft 365 Copilot or Microsoft Foundry
Match the AI platform to the actual requirement.
A professional services firm wants two things: employees who can ask questions over their own SharePoint and Teams content, and a customer-facing assistant on their public website that answers from a curated product knowledge base with full control over prompts and logging.
Designing a reliable RAG architecture
Where retrieval quality is actually won or lost.
A bank is building an internal assistant over thousands of policy PDFs on Microsoft Foundry. An early prototype gives confident but wrong answers, and the team is tempted to fix it by swapping in a larger model.
Governance before a Copilot rollout
Make AI safe to switch on.
A healthcare provider is ready to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot. Security is worried that years of loose SharePoint permissions mean sensitive files will suddenly become findable through natural-language search.