HCIA-Cloud study materials
HCIA-Cloud study resources

HCIA-Cloud case studies

HCIA-Cloud · Put your knowledge to work in context.

HCIA-Cloud (Huawei Certified ICT Associate – Cloud) is an associate-level certification in Huawei's career certification track, which the Huawei Talent portal lists under its Certification menu alongside Specialist Certification, the Documentation Center, Certification News and Certification Courses. Candidates typically reach it through the Learning and Certification Service pages that Huawei Enterprise exposes in its Learning and Tech Support navigation. The HCIA-Cloud case studies are 5 cases and about 5,451 words.

1

The "40% cheaper" claim at a promotion-driven retailer

A regional retailer runs 46 VMware VMs in its own data centre: 12 web/API servers, 8 application servers, 4 Oracle database servers (3 TB total), 6 batch/ETL nodes, and 16 internal tools. Average CPU utilisation across the estate is 11%.

1,001 words, about 5 min
2

Transcoding burst, 200 TB of media, and a finance objection

A short-video editing SaaS runs on Huawei Cloud. Editors upload 4K clips through an ELB in front of 6 ECS web servers.

1,134 words, about 6 min
3

The tenant whose guest says 35% idle but whose queries take 3.5 seconds

An internal platform team runs a three-host private cloud and sells a standard 16-vCPU / 64 GB VM. Each host has two 32-core CPUs with hyperthreading enabled and 512 GB of RAM.

1,123 words, about 6 min
4

Ninety alarms a day and the incident nobody saw

A payment gateway runs on Huawei Cloud: 24 ECS instances behind a dedicated ELB, 6 RDS for MySQL instances, a DCS Redis cluster and a DMS Kafka cluster. The operations team is four engineers.

1,095 words, about 5 min
5

A three-tier VPC with SSH open to the world

A three-tier web application runs on Huawei Cloud. Traffic flows WAF → ELB → 8 web ECS in a public subnet (10.0.1.0/24) → 4 application ECS in a private subnet (10.0.2.0/24) → RDS for MySQL in a data subnet (10.0.3.0/24).

1,098 words, about 5 min