HCIE-Cloud study plan

Map the full HCIE-Cloud exam blueprint into a personal checklist, marking every sub-area of Cloud Platform & Cloud Services as known, weak, or unknown

Explain the layered architecture of a Huawei Cloud stack (compute, storage, network, management plane) from memory on a blank diagram

Set up a free-tier or lab tenant and provision one ECS instance, one VPC, and one EVS volume end to end

List the core platform services and write one sentence on what each is used for

Describe compute services in depth: instance families, flavor selection, image handling, and scaling behavior

Configure VPC networking with subnets, security groups, and an elastic IP, then verify connectivity

Compare block, object, and file storage services and select the right one for three given scenarios

Document the identity and permission model (users, groups, roles, policies) and apply a least-privilege policy to a test user

Explain cloud service lifecycle operations: provisioning, monitoring, backup, and decommissioning

Configure a monitoring and alerting rule set for CPU, disk, and network thresholds on the lab instances

Design and test a backup and restore procedure for one EVS volume and one object bucket

Summarize how billing, quotas, and resource tagging affect cost control

Diagnose and resolve five common platform faults (network isolation, quota exhaustion, image incompatibility, storage attachment failure, permission denial)

Explain high availability patterns: multi-AZ deployment, load balancing, and auto scaling

Build a load-balanced, auto-scaling web tier in the lab and trigger a scale-out event

Articulate disaster recovery concepts: RPO, RTO, and replication strategies

Consolidate cloud platform knowledge into a single comparison sheet of service categories and selection criteria

Practice explaining architecture trade-offs aloud for three design scenarios within a time limit

Review weak items from the week-1 checklist and close at least 80 percent of them

Draft solution outlines for two open-ended design prompts without notes

Complete a timed full-length mock exam under realistic conditions and score it strictly

Categorize every wrong answer by root cause: knowledge gap, misread question, or reasoning error

Re-study the three weakest sub-areas identified by the mock and re-test them

Practice written scenario responses with structured headings and explicit assumptions

Run a second timed mock exam and compare scores against week 6 to confirm improvement

Drill the remaining weak items until each is answered correctly twice in a row

Rehearse explaining a full solution architecture end to end in under 15 minutes

Review operational best practices for security, reliability, and cost in cloud deployments

Consolidate all notes into a single review pack of no more than 10 pages

Complete a final light mock or rapid-fire question set and confirm readiness thresholds

Rehearse exam-day logistics: time allocation, question triage, and answer structuring

Confirm confidence on every blueprint sub-area and flag anything still uncertain