HCIE-Cloud study guide
HCIE-Cloud · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
HCIE is the Expert tier of Huawei Career Certification, the top of a three-level ladder that runs Huawei Certified ICT Associate (HCIA), Huawei Certified ICT Professional (HCIP), and Huawei Certified ICT Expert (HCIE). Huawei describes the programme as a talent development system and certification standard aimed at developing ICT professionals for the digital era. The Expert level sits above Associate and Professional and is organised by technical field; Huawei's published roadmap groups fields under headings such as ICT Infrastructure, Basic Software & Hardware, Cloud Platform & Cloud Services, and Project Management, with individual tracks including Computing, Storage, Datacom, WLAN, Security, Transmission, Access, 5G, and LTE. Candidates typically work as cloud or infrastructure engineers, solution architects, or presales and delivery specialists who design, deploy, and operate Huawei platforms and services. The certification path has two exam stages: a written exam delivered through Pearson VUE, and a separate HCIE Lab Exam that candidates schedule through the HCIE Lab booking route. Huawei notes that requirements and processes differ by level and technical field, so confirm the current syllabus for your track before booking. Topics on this exam: Cloud Platform & Cloud Services. The HCIE-Cloud study guide has 2 sections and about 743 words.
01Cloud Platform
This domain tests how well you understand the architecture, deployment, and day-2 operations of the Huawei Cloud Stack platform. Expect questions on FusionCompute components, resource pooling, high availability, multi-tenancy, and the management plane rather than on individual cloud service features. FusionCompute splits into CNA on each compute node and VRM as the cluster manager. VRM runs active/standby; losing one VRM does not stop running VMs.
374 words, about 2 min02Cloud Services
This domain tests the provisioning, networking, elasticity, and data-protection behavior of cloud services on Huawei Cloud and Huawei Cloud Stack. Questions typically combine ECS, EVS, VPC, ELB, AS, OBS, and RDS into a small architecture scenario. ECS placement depends on AZ, flavor, image, and affinity/anti-affinity groups. Anti-affinity spreads instances across hosts for availability.
369 words, about 2 minMore study resources for HCIE-Cloud
- Practice questionsIn Huawei Cloud Stack, which component is responsible for unified management of compute, storage, and network resources across multiple availability zones?
- FlashcardsECS flavor naming. A flavor such as c6.large.2 encodes family (c = compute-optimized), generation (6), size class (large), and vCPU count (2).
- Cheat sheetHuawei Cloud IaaS core services: ECS (Elastic Cloud Server), EVS (Elastic Volume Service), VPC, ELB, OBS, IMS, and BMS; ECS instances are defined by flavor (vCPU/memory), image, disk type, and VPC/subnet placement.
- Key termsRegion. A geographic area containing one or more isolated data centers that host cloud resources; users choose a region to control latency, data residency, and disaster recovery separation.
- Study planMap the full HCIE-Cloud exam blueprint into a personal checklist, marking every sub-area of Cloud Platform & Cloud Services as known, weak, or unknown.
- Common mistakesHCIE-level items are scored on design reasoning, not product recall.
- Exam-day guideBring the exact ID document the registration was made under, with a signature and photo.