Huawei HCIP-Storage study guide
Huawei HCIP-Storage · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
HCIP-Storage is the Professional-tier credential in Huawei's Storage certification track. Huawei runs three levels - Huawei Certified ICT Associate (HCIA), Huawei Certified ICT Professional (HCIP) and Huawei Certified ICT Expert (HCIE) - and Storage appears as one of the technology fields on the Huawei Career Certification roadmap, so HCIP-Storage sits one step above entry level and one below the expert tier. The Huawei HCIP-Storage study guide has 6 sections and about 2,216 words.
01Storage Fundamentals and Architectures
This domain tests whether you understand why storage behaves as it does: media characteristics, RAID and RAID 2.0+, cache behaviour, the I/O path, and how block, file and object architectures differ. Hard disks are limited by seek time and rotational latency, so IOPS stay low while sequential throughput is high.
405 words, about 2 min02Huawei Storage Product Portfolio (OceanStor Block, File, Object)
This domain tests product placement: which Huawei family you propose for a given workload, and why the others are wrong. OceanStor Dorado is the all-flash line (3000/5000/6000/8000/18000 in V6), built end to end on NVMe with the SmartMatrix full-mesh multi-controller architecture.
354 words, about 2 min03Storage Networking (SAN, NAS, IP/FC) and Host Connectivity
This domain tests the path between host and LUN or share: protocol choice, zoning and authentication, multipathing, and mapping views. Fibre Channel is lossless by design.
395 words, about 2 min04Data Protection
This domain tests local and platform-level protection: what each mechanism actually protects against and what it costs. Availability features keep data online; protection features keep recoverable copies.
339 words, about 2 min05Backup and Disaster Recovery
This domain tests solution design: RPO/RTO targets, the right replication or backup mechanism, and three-data-center topologies. RPO is the maximum acceptable data loss in time; RTO is the maximum acceptable downtime.
367 words, about 2 min06Storage Management, Monitoring and Troubleshooting
This domain tests daily operations: where to configure, what to monitor, and how to isolate a fault methodically. Huawei arrays are managed through DeviceManager (web GUI), a CLI over SSH, and one-click information collection for logs; alarms and events also stream via SNMP traps or syslog, and health reporting can be forwarded through the remote maintenance service.
356 words, about 2 min