Acquia Cloud Pro study guide
Acquia Cloud Pro · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Acquia Certified Cloud Pro is a professional credential for people who build, operate, and support Drupal sites on Acquia's managed cloud hosting platform. It suits site builders, Drupal developers, DevOps engineers, and technical leads who work day to day with Acquia Cloud environments, deployment pipelines, and production operations. The Acquia Cloud Pro study guide has 6 sections and about 1,825 words.
01Acquia Cloud Platform Architecture and Environments
Acquia Cloud organizes work into an organization → application → environment hierarchy, and questions love to test which level a setting or artifact lives at. An application groups related code and databases; environments (Dev, Stage, Prod, plus on-demand environments created from a branch or a database backup) are isolated runtime stacks.
294 words, about 1 min02Deployment Workflow and Code Management
Acquia Cloud deployments are branch-based and Git-driven . Each environment tracks a branch (commonly master / main for Prod, stage , dev ), and a deploy moves the branch tip's code artifact onto that environment's servers.
306 words, about 2 min03Configuration Management and Environment Parity
Environment parity means Dev, Stage, and Prod behave the same because configuration lives in code, not in the database or UI. For Drupal 8+, that means exporting config to YAML, committing it, and importing on each environment ( drush cex / drush cim ).
320 words, about 2 min04Performance, Caching, and Search
Acquia Cloud performance questions center on the cache layers : browser/CDN, Varnish (page cache), and application caches (Drupal render/dynamic page cache, Redis/Memcache for cache bins, and views/entity caches). Know the order: request hits CDN → Varnish → web server → Drupal.
289 words, about 1 min05Security, Access Control, and Compliance
Security questions test who can do what, where, and how it is enforced . Know the roles: organization-level roles (admin, member, billing) vs team roles on an application (admin, lead, developer, etc.) vs environment permissions.
298 words, about 1 min06Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Incident Response
Troubleshooting questions reward a layered diagnostic approach . Know the tools: Acquia Cloud logs (web/Apache, PHP/error, Drupal watchdog, Varnish, database slow query), Insight (performance and availability monitoring), and status/health indicators.
318 words, about 2 min