Alibaba ACP Cloud Computing Professional Practice Exam

The Alibaba ACP Cloud Computing Professional certification is designed to validate the knowledge and skills of IT professionals working with Alibaba Cloud services. This certification focuses on essential cloud computing concepts, best practices, and various Alibaba Cloud products and services. The certification attests to your skills to design, deploy, and manage cloud-based solutions using the Alibaba cloud.
Why is Alibaba ACP Cloud Computing Professional important?

• Validates expertise in Alibaba Cloud computing and services.
• Enhances career prospects in cloud computing and IT roles.
• Recognized as a standard for cloud professionals working with Alibaba Cloud.
• Provides knowledge of best practices in cloud architecture and deployment.
• Prepares candidates for roles in cloud management, architecture, and development.

Who should take the Alibaba ACP Cloud Computing Professional Exam?

• Cloud Architect
• Cloud Engineer
• DevOps Engineer
• IT Administrator
• Systems Administrator

Skills Evaluated

Candidates taking the certification exam on the Alibaba ACP Cloud Computing Professional is evaluated for the following skills:

• Understanding of cloud computing concepts and models.
• Knowledge of Alibaba Cloud services and products.
• Ability to design and implement cloud solutions.
• Proficiency in managing and optimizing cloud resources.
• Familiarity with security and compliance in the cloud environment.

Alibaba ACP Cloud Computing Professional Certification Course Outline
The Alibaba ACP Cloud Computing Professional Certification covers the following topics -

Module 1. Understanding ECS:

• ECS-related concepts (like regions and zones, instances, disks, snapshots, images, networks, and security groups).

• The advantages, billing policies, application scenarios, APIs and SDKs of ECS.

• Deploy applications based on ECS products.

• The usage and operations of ECS instances, disks, security groups, snapshots, images and tags.

• Discover and resolve common problems arising during the operating system usage, server logons, and use of other ECS instance products.

• Implement application solutions based on ECS, RDS and Server Load Balancers, VPCs, OSS, CDN, Auto Scaling, Alibaba Cloud Security and CloudMonitor products.

Module 2. Understanding Auto Scaling:

• Auto Scaling concepts (like scaling groups, scaling configuration, scaling rules, scaling activities, scaling trigger, tasks, scaling mode and freezing time).

• Auto Scaling features, product advantages and common application scenarios.

• Auto Scaling's specific configuration and operations, which includes the creation and maintenance of scaling groups, configuration of rules and jobs, and configuration of alert jobs.

• Precautions during Auto Scaling use to prevent and solve common problems arising during use.

• Implement application solutions on the basis of on Auto Scaling and ECS and Server Load Balancer products.

Module 3. Understanding Server Load Balancer:

• Server Load Balancer concepts and features (like the Server Load Balancer definition, implementation principles, supported protocols, session persistence, health checks, backend server weights, certificates, and forwarding policies).

• Server Load Balancers product advantages and its application scenarios.

• Usage, operation and maintenance of Server Load Balancers, including Server Load Balancer configuration, maintenance, precautions, and problem identification and handling.

• Implement application solutions based on Server Load Balancer as well as ECS and Auto Scaling products.

Module 4. Understanding VPC:

• VPC-related concepts (like VPCs, Vrouters, Vswitches, route tables, and route entries).

• The advantages and application scenarios of VPC products.

• The usage and operation of VPCs, Vswitches, EIPs, Vrouters, and route tables.

• The security and configuration as well as use restrictions of VPCs.

• Carry out VPC monitoring and O&M.

• Implementation of interconnection solutions between VPCs through Express Connect.

• Use ECS, Server Load Balancer and OSS products in a VPC and implement application solutions.

Module 5. Understanding OSS:

• The OSS-related concepts (like regions, buckets, objects, anti-leech, and object lifecycle management).

• The advantages, application scenarios and billing models of OSS products.

• The management, use and operations of OSS buckets and objects.

• The image processing capabilities offered by OSS.

• Common problems arising during the usage of OSS products.

• Implement application solutions based on OSS as well as ECS, CDN and ApsaraVideo for Media Transcoding.

Module 6. Understanding CDN:

• CDN-related concepts (like DNS resolution, intelligent DNS, CNAME, cache, edge nodes, CDN Domains, and back-to-source).

• The advantages, application scenarios and billing modes of CDN products.

• Carry out basic configuration and optimization of CDN to solve basic common problems.

• Implement application solutions based on CDN as well as ECS and OSS products.

Module 7. Understanding Alibaba Cloud Security services and CloudMonitor:

• Basic security awareness and security basics of using Cloud services.

• Alibaba Cloud Security series, such as Anti-DDoS Basic, Anti-DDoS Pro, Security Center and CloudMonitor.

• Discover DDoS attacks, brute force password cracking attacks, and web SQL injections among other common security risks according to security alerts from Alibaba Cloud, and use Alibaba Cloud Security product for protection.

Module 8. Understanding General knowledge about Cloud Computing:

• Practitioners in the cloud computing field are required to possess basic knowledge about the related concepts, technologies and cloud computing advantages, including the definition, features, advantages, service types, implementation technologies and deployment methods of cloud computing.