ACA CCP study plan

Map each core Alibaba Cloud product family (compute, storage, networking, database, security) to its primary use case in your own words

Distinguish ECS instance families and deployment sets well enough to pick an instance type for three given workloads

Compare OSS storage classes and explain lifecycle rules and bucket-level access control

Sketch how VPC, vSwitch, SLB, and ECS fit together to serve a two-tier web application

Explain RDS vs. PolarDB vs. ApsaraDB for Redis trade-offs for three scenarios

Describe SLB listener types and health check behavior and choose a load balancer type for stated traffic patterns

Trace a DNS query through Alibaba Cloud DNS and Alibaba Cloud CDN to a backend origin

Differentiate Auto Scaling, ROS, and Cloud Monitor responsibilities in an elastic deployment

Define IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and classify five Alibaba Cloud offerings into each model

Contrast public, private, and hybrid cloud plus region/zone topology and explain why availability zones matter

Explain elasticity, pay-as-you-go vs. subscription billing, and the shared responsibility model

Compute the cost drivers and scaling behavior of a sample workload across two deployment models

Apply the shared responsibility model to list who secures what for ECS, OSS, and RDS

Configure the logic of RAM users, groups, roles, and policies and write a least-privilege policy for a stated task

Explain Security Center, Anti-DDoS, WAF, and Cloud Firewall and match each to an attack scenario

Describe data protection controls: encryption at rest, KMS key management, and backup/recovery options

Design a VPC network segmentation plan with security groups and network ACLs for a regulated workload

Explain identity federation and STS temporary credentials in an access flow

Draft an incident-response sequence for a compromised ECS instance using Alibaba Cloud tooling

Identify logging and audit sources (ActionTrail, Log Service) and what each captures

Design a highly available multi-zone architecture and justify each redundancy decision

Explain backup, disaster recovery, and RTO/RPO trade-offs and set targets for a sample system

Use Cloud Monitor metrics and alarms to define a monitoring plan with thresholds

Describe the deployment lifecycle from ROS template to production rollout with rollback

Optimize a sample architecture for cost, performance, and reliability and document the trade-offs

Troubleshoot three given symptoms (high latency, connection failures, disk pressure) to likely causes and fixes

Right-size compute and storage using utilization data and explain when to scale up vs. out

Review the week-2 architecture and revise it against what you now know

Consolidate weak areas by re-testing each domain and logging every missed concept

Practice timed scenario questions across all four domains and review each wrong answer to root cause

Re-derive the shared responsibility model, product selection rules, and HA design principles from memory

Build a final one-page summary of decision rules for exam scenarios