Huawei HCIP-Cloud Service Solutions Architect study guide
Huawei HCIP-Cloud Service Solutions Architect · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Huawei HCIP-Cloud Service Solutions Architect is a professional-level certification aimed at engineers, pre-sales consultants and cloud architects who design solutions on Huawei Cloud rather than simply operating individual resources. It sits above the entry-level associate tier and assumes you already understand what a virtual machine, a virtual private cloud and an object bucket are; the exam tests whether you can combine them into a coherent, secure, resilient and cost-aware design for a stated business requirement. The Huawei HCIP-Cloud Service Solutions Architect study guide has 8 sections and about 2,884 words.
01Cloud Solution Design Principles and the Huawei Cloud Service Portfolio
Every design question on this exam starts with the same discipline: translate a business requirement into a service choice, then justify it against five qualities - reliability, security, performance, elasticity, and cost. Huawei Cloud's global infrastructure is organised as regions (isolated, independent) containing availability zones (physically separate, low-latency, connected by redundant fibre).
365 words, about 2 min02Computing Services Design: ECS, BMS, Auto Scaling and Containers
ECS is the workhorse. You choose an instance family matched to the workload (general-purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, GPU/heterogeneous), an image (public, private, shared, or marketplace), EVS system/data disks, security groups, and an EIP if public access is needed.
363 words, about 2 min03Storage Services Design: EVS, OBS, SFS, Backup and Archive Tiers
Pick storage by access pattern and consistency need , not by capacity. EVS is block storage attached to one ECS in the same AZ.
365 words, about 2 min04Network Services Design: VPC, ELB, EIP, DNS, Direct Connect and VPN
A VPC is region-scoped and contains subnets , each bound to one AZ. Plan CIDR blocks early: overlapping ranges block VPC peering, VPN, and Direct Connect later, and re-IP is brutal.
371 words, about 2 min05Security and Compliance Design: IAM, KMS, WAF, HSS and Cloud Firewall
Design security in layers, because questions usually ask which control fixes which risk. Identity (IAM): the Huawei Cloud account is the root of trust; day-to-day work should use IAM users in groups with policies (system or custom JSON), MFA enabled, and least privilege granted through roles/agencies for cross-service access.
352 words, about 2 min06Database and Data Services Design: RDS, DCS, DWS, DDM and the Data Lake
Classify the workload first: transactional (OLTP), caching, analytical (OLAP), or large-scale unstructured analytics. RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) gives you a managed OLTP database with primary/standby high availability, read replicas for read scaling, automated backup with point-in-time recovery, parameter templates, and storage autoscaling.
354 words, about 2 min07High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Cloud Migration Design
Start every HA/DR question by extracting RTO (how long until service is restored) and RPO (how much data you can afford to lose). The answers determine the pattern and the cost.
362 words, about 2 min08Cloud Operations, Monitoring, Automation and Cost Optimization
Operations questions test whether you can see , react , and pay less . See: CES collects metrics (basic free metrics at coarse granularity; detailed metrics at 1-minute granularity, billed) and needs the agent installed for guest-OS metrics such as memory and disk usage.
352 words, about 2 min