Expected ACP-Sec1 Exam Topics, as suggested by Alibaba :

• Module 1: Characteristics, application scenarios and features of Alibaba Cloud security management-related products
• Module 2: Cloud computing-related product (ECS, Server Load Balancer, OSS, RDS, VPC and CDN) content
• Module 3: Core security products: basic operations and management of Anti-DDoS, Security Center, SSL Certificate, Content Moderation, Key Management Service
• Module 4: Cloud service-related basic security protocols such as HTTP, FTP, TCP, UDP and ICMP/ Understanding common security risks of the above products
• Module 5: Characteristic, application scenarios, competitive edges and features of Alibaba Cloud Anti-DDos and WAF
• Module 6: Security application solution design, such as correct understanding and handling after receiving alerts from the console, e-mails or text messages
• Module 7: Discovering DDoS attacks, brute force password cracking attacks/ Security advantages of their combined solutions
• Module 8: web SQL injections among other common security risks and taking appropriate measures for protection
• Module 9: Understanding the positioning, main features, working principles and application scenarios of the above products

Expected ACP-Cloud1 Exam Topics, as suggested by Alibaba :

• Module 1: Able to use ECS, Server Load Balancer and OSS products in a VPC and implement application solutions/ Familiar with Auto Scaling features, product advantages and common application scenarios
• Module 2: Has knowledge about the advantages and application scenarios of VPC products/ Has knowledge about implementation of interconnection solutions between VPCs through Express Connect
• Module 3: Familiar with the image processing capabilities offered by OSS/ Able to deploy applications based on ECS products
• Module 4: Has knowledge about the security and configuration as well as use restrictions of VPCs/ Able to carry out basic configuration and optimization of CDN to solve basic common problems
• Module 5: Has knowledge about the advantages, application scenarios and billing models of OSS products/ Able to implement application solutions based on Server Load Balancer as well as ECS and Auto Scaling products
• Module 6: Has basic security awareness and security basics of using Cloud services/ Familiar with the usage and operations of ECS instances, disks, security groups, snapshots, images and tags
• Module 7: Has knowledge about the management, use and operations of OSS buckets and objects/ Has knowledge about the advantages, billing policies, application scenarios, APIs and SDKs of ECS
• Module 8: Familiar with VPC-related concepts, including VPCs, Vrouters, Vswitches, route tables, and route entries/ Able to implement application solutions based on OSS as well as ECS, CDN and ApsaraVideo for Media Transcoding

Expected ACA-Sec1 Exam Topics, as suggested by Alibaba :

• Module 1: Able to discover and resolve common issues emerged during the use of Alibaba Cloud Security related products
• Module 2: Understanding of the concepts of Alibaba Cloud Security related products
• Module 3: Familiar with common network protocols such as HTTP, FTP, TCP, UDP and ICMP
• Module 4: Familiar with operations of Alibaba Cloud Security related products
• Module 5: Knowledge of network security, such as firewall policy, key encryption, access control, network security, and network attack and protection methodologies
• Module 6: Activating, creating, configuring, starting and stopping and disabling a service
• Module 7: Familiar with the concepts and related knowledge of Cloud Computing
• Module 8: Aware of main application scenarios of Alibaba Cloud Security related products and know each of these products’ special usage scenario
• Module 9: Virtualization, storage and networking/ Familiar with operation on Linux and Windows operating system and be able to configure network and storage related system commands
• Module 10: Familiar with features of Alibaba Cloud Security related products and key product implementation principles

Expected ACA-Operator Exam Topics, as suggested by Alibaba :

• Module 1: Deploy and configure ECS on Alibaba Cloud, Set up remote access to ECS/ Apply Alibaba Cloud Networking Features
• Module 2: Use Cloud Monitor to monitor application resource usage and health status/ Cloud Architecture- High Availability and Fault Tolerance
• Module 3: Use Alibaba Cloud services and features to manage and assess resource utilization/ Implement scalability and elasticity based on a given use case using Auto-Scaling and Load Balancer
• Module 4: Implement connectivity to build a full-mesh global network on cloud/ Create container images for lightweight application packaging using Docker
• Module 5: Manage permissions for an enterprise organization on the cloud/ Recognize and differentiate highly available and resilient architectures on Alibaba Cloud
• Module 6: Identify and implement data protection, encryption, and capacity planning needs/ Enable finance to see what is being spent, when, and by whom
• Module 7: Manage identity and authentication for an organization’s users, across multiple platforms/ Publish container images to Alibaba Cloud Container Registry (ACR)
• Module 8: Network design for resource sharing between different accounts/ Use Cloud Config to track resource configuration changes and evaluate configuration compliance
• Module 9: Create an ECS image to package the application and runtime environments for easy distribution/ Gather and interpret relevant information for network troubleshooting
• Module 10: Migrate data from a local environment to OSS or RDS using DTS or OSS utilities/ Implement data backup, archiving and retention for Cloud Disk, RDS, and OSS

Expected ACA-Developer Exam Topics, as suggested by Alibaba :

• Module 1: Create container images for lightweight application packaging using Docker/ Deploy and configure ECS on Alibaba Cloud
• Module 2: Setup applications directly with Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, Serverless Workflow and API/ Setup remote access to ECS
• Module 3: Run containers by using Alibaba Cloud Elastic Container Instance (ECI)/ Create ECS images to package application and runtime environments for easy distribution
• Module 4: Connect to Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) through both private and public network endpoints/ Set up applications using Simple Application Server
• Module 5: Connect with Alibaba Cloud Relational Database Service (RDS) through both private and public network endpoints/ Publish container images to Alibaba Cloud Container Registry (ACR)
• Module 6: Implement solutions to interact with Alibaba Cloud Message Queues/ Use Alibaba Cloud CLI and SDK to manage cloud resources
• Module 7: Create and manage keys, secrets, and certificates using KMS and SSL Certificate Service/ Set and retrieve properties and metadata for data in various storage services
• Module 8: Implement autoscaling rules, including scheduled autoscaling, and scaling by operational or system metrics/ Use Tracing Analysis to debug and analyze application issues
• Module 9: Create and implement secret key based access signatures/ Implement solutions to interact with Alibaba Cloud Message Service
• Module 10: Know how to select different types of NoSQL database for different application scenarios/ Setting up CDN and Redis for content acceleration
• Module 11: Use Cloud Monitor to monitor application resource usage and health status/ Migrate data from a local environment to OSS or RDS
• Module 12: No instance type (specification) was included in the request parameters
• Module 13: Interact with data using the appropriate SDK/ Configure authentication for APIs calls/ Monitoring, Debugging and Optimization

Expected ACA-Database Exam Topics, as suggested by Alibaba :

• Module 1: Alibaba Cloud database products portfolio/ Basic concepts of database (SQL, index, view, transaction, log, etc.)
• Module 2: Common operation of Alibaba Cloud database (database creation, basic operation and maintenance, monitoring, connection, etc.)
• Module 3: Infrastructure, core functions and application scenarios of Alibaba cloud database: Tair (Redis enterprise version) and Apsara DB for MongoDB
• Module 4: Database Overview/ Relational Database/ NoSQL/ Data Warehouse/ ADB database infrastructure, core functions and application scenarios
• Module 5: From cloud native to cloud dedicate: MyBase database dedicated cluster/ Development history and future trend of database
• Module 6: Core capabilities and basic operations of Alibaba Cloud database tools and utilities/ Fast construction of cloud native data
• Module 7: Infrastructure, core functions and application scenarios of PolarDB, which is Alibaba Cloud Native database representative/ Mainstream tools include: ADAM, DTS, DMS, DBS
• Module 8: DLA infrastructure, core functions and application scenarios/ Cloud database edition and engine selection how-to

Expected ACA-CloudNative Exam Topics, as suggested by Alibaba :

• Module 1: Promoting best the solution to end users and customers/ Understand the concept of Infrastructure as code
• Module 2: Able to discover and resolve common infrastructure issues by using Log Service/ Knowledge required for ACA Cloud Native Certification
• Module 3: Account authentication and authorization, network attack prevention/ Introduction to ACA Cloud Native Certification
• Module 4: Deploying Alibaba Cloud Container Service on Kubernetes clusters and deploying applications using DevOps best practices
• Module 5: Knowing the key features of each of the following products/ Basic knowledge of application and data security related technologies
• Module 6: Concepts and related knowledge of Cloud Computing/ Operations and usage of Alibaba Cloud Container Service on Kubernetes
• Module 7: Software development lifecycle and understands the concept of DevOps/ Application containerization technology like Docker
• Module 8: Effective technology solutions and enterprise best practices based on Alibaba Cloud’s provided Cloud Native reference cases
• Module 9: Typical web application architecture/ Auto-scaling features and adequate security protection

Expected ACA-Cloud1 Exam Topics, as suggested by Alibaba :

• Module 1: Aware of main application scenarios of Alibaba Cloud Computing-related products and how they shall be used together
• Module 2: Alibaba Cloud Security services and CloudMonitor/ Familiar with the concepts of Alibaba Cloud Computing related products
• Module 3: Familiar with features of Alibaba Cloud Computing-related products and key product implementation principles/ We strongly recommend you register an Alibaba Cloudaccount and try the products directly/ Familiar with operations of Alibaba Cloud Computing-related products
• Module 4: Rudimentary knowledge of network security/ Cloud Computing and Network Security
• Module 5: creating, configuring, starting and stopping and deleting a service instance/ Has knowledge in the use and operation of Alibaba Cloud’s ECS, Server Load Balancers
• Module 6: Familiar with common network protocols such as HTTP, FTP, TCP, UDP and ICMP/ Familiar with software development lifecycle
• Module 7: Able to discover and resolve common issues emergedduring the use of Alibaba Cloud Computing-related products
• Module 8: develop general solutions and enterprise best practices based on Alibaba Cloud’s products and business needs

Expected ACA-BigData1 Exam Topics, as suggested by Alibaba :

• Module 1: Distributed file system like Google file system/ Familiar with the theory of relational database such as Oracle
• Module 2: Know how the common components in Hadoop ecosystem work/ Know about the concepts of Alibaba Cloud big data related products
• Module 3: Has rudimentary knowledge of distributed system theory/ Able to use the data management module for data management
• Module 4: Able to discover and resolve common issues emerged during the use of Alibaba Cloud big data products/ Familiar with software development language like SQL and Python
• Module 5: features of Alibaba Cloud Big Data products and key product implementation principles/ Rudimentary knowledge of distributed system theory
• Module 6: Aware of main application scenarios of Alibaba Cloud Big Data related products and how they shall be used together
• Module 7: Understand the Graph programming framework, including basic concepts/ concepts and related knowledge of Cloud Computing, such as virtualization