Alibaba ACA Cloud Computing study guide
Alibaba ACA Cloud Computing · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Alibaba ACA Cloud Computing credential is an associate-level certification for practitioners who want to demonstrate foundational competence with Alibaba Cloud's platform. It suits cloud engineers, solution architects, developers, and operations staff early in their Alibaba Cloud journey, as well as professionals preparing for more advanced Alibaba Cloud certifications. The Alibaba ACA Cloud Computing study guide has 6 sections and about 1,817 words.
01Cloud Computing Fundamentals and Alibaba Cloud Overview
Alibaba Cloud organizes its catalog around the same IaaS/PaaS/SaaS ladder you see elsewhere, but exam questions lean on its own vocabulary. Know the difference between a Region (a geographic area such as Hangzhou or Frankfurt) and a Zone (an isolated datacenter with independent power and network inside a region).
280 words, about 1 min02Compute Services (ECS)
Elastic Compute Service (ECS) is the flagship IaaS product. A candidate must be fluent in the instance family taxonomy: general purpose (g), compute optimized (c), memory optimized (r), and shared/burstable types.
271 words, about 1 min03Storage and Content Delivery (OSS, CDN)
Object Storage Service (OSS) stores objects in buckets , each bound to a region and globally unique in name. Understand storage classes : Standard, Infrequent Access (IA), Archive, and Cold Archive - each trades retrieval latency and minimum storage duration for price.
269 words, about 1 min04Networking (VPC, SLB, CEN)
A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is an isolated network with a CIDR block you choose. Inside it you define vSwitches (subnets) bound to a single zone each.
255 words, about 1 min05Security
Security on Alibaba Cloud spans identity, network, data, and threat detection. Know the shared responsibility model : the provider secures physical infrastructure and managed-service platforms; you secure guest OS, applications, data, and access configuration.
230 words, about 1 min06Identity and Access Management
Resource Access Management (RAM) is Alibaba Cloud's IAM. The root Alibaba Cloud account should be locked down; day-to-day work uses RAM users , RAM user groups , and RAM roles .
512 words, about 3 min