OVHcloud Associate study guide
OVHcloud Associate · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The OVHcloud Associate credential is an independent, third-party certification designed for cloud professionals who work with OVHcloud products and want to demonstrate practical breadth across the vendor's portfolio. It suits systems administrators, cloud engineers, pre-sales and solutions architects, and managed-service technicians who already touch OVHcloud services or plan to. The OVHcloud Associate study guide has 6 sections and about 1,987 words.
01Bare Metal & VPS
This domain checks whether you can map a workload to the right OVHcloud server product and then configure it correctly. Questions focus on dedicated server ranges, VPS ranges, the split of responsibility, and the options that change how a machine is addressed, protected and recovered.
370 words, about 2 min02Storage and Backup
This domain tests product selection more than configuration depth: given a durability, access-pattern and retrieval requirement, which OVHcloud storage or backup service fits, and what does it not do? Object Storage - S3-compatible buckets (also Swift API), region-scoped, with versioning, lifecycle rules and object lock for immutability.
325 words, about 2 min03Network & Network Security
This domain covers how OVHcloud addresses services publicly and privately, and which controls filter or absorb traffic. Expect vRack, IP management, anti-DDoS, firewalls, security groups and load balancing.
330 words, about 2 min04Public Cloud
This domain tests the OpenStack-based Public Cloud model: projects, regions, instances, storage, networking and billing. You should know what a project is and which objects live inside a region.
321 words, about 2 min05Hosted Private Cloud
This domain covers OVHcloud's VMware-based private cloud: the SDDC model, its components, what the customer administers, and which options are ordered separately. Hosted Private Cloud provides dedicated VMware hosts managed by OVHcloud, with vSphere hypervisors, vCenter for management, NSX for network virtualisation and vSAN for hyperconverged storage (or dedicated datastores depending on the offer).
301 words, about 2 min06Identity, Security & Operations
This domain tests account and permission hygiene plus day-to-day operations: who can do what, how access is proven, and how incidents and changes are tracked. The OVHcloud account (NIC handle) is the billing and ownership root.
340 words, about 2 min