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Alibaba ACA-Operator Exam Syllabus

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Before starting your ACA-Operator exam preparation, it is recommended to review the complete Alibaba ACA System Operator Certification exam syllabus and carefully go through the exam objectives listed below. Once you understand the exam structure and objectives, you should practice using our free ACA-Operator questions. We also provide premium ACA-Operator practice test, fully updated according to the latest exam objectives, to help you accurately assess your preparedness for the actual exam.

Alibaba ACA-Operator Exam Objectives

Section Weight Objectives
Cloud Architecture- High Availability and Fault Tolerance 15%
  • Implement scalability and elasticity based on a given use case using Auto-Scaling and Load Balancer.
  • Recognize and differentiate highly available and resilient architectures on Alibaba Cloud.
  • Leverage the relevant cloud services such as SLB, DNS-Global Traffic Manager to implement a HA/DR
  • system on Alibaba Cloud.
Cloud Infrastructure Deployment and Provisioning 15%
  • Deploy and configure ECS on Alibaba Cloud, Set up remote access to ECS.
  • Create an ECS image to package the application and runtime environments for easy distribution.
  • Create container images for lightweight application packaging using Docker.
  • Publish container images to Alibaba Cloud Container Registry (ACR).
  • Run containers using Alibaba Cloud Elastic Container Instance (ECI).
  • Deploy applications directly with Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, Serverless Workflow, and API
  • Gateway.
  • Identify and remediate deployment issues.
Data Management and Security 15%
  • Know how to select different types of databases for different application scenarios.
  • Migrate data from a local environment to OSS or RDS using DTS or OSS utilities.
  • Identify and implement data protection, encryption, and capacity planning needs.
  • Implement data backup, archiving and retention for Cloud Disk, RDS, and OSS.
Networking on Cloud 15%
  • Apply Alibaba Cloud Networking Features.
  • Implement connectivity to build a full-mesh global network on cloud.
  • Network design for resource sharing between different accounts.
  • Network security solutions.
  • Gather and interpret relevant information for network troubleshooting.
Cloud Governance 15%
  • Manage identity and authentication for an organization’s users, across multiple platforms.
  • Manage permissions for an enterprise organization on the cloud.
  • Use Action Trail for auditors to see what actions were taken, when, and by whom. Allow technical staff
  • to perform after-the-fact analysis to pinpoint weaknesses that led to security breaches or breakdowns.   
  • Enable finance to see what is being spent, when, and by whom. 
Monitoring and Alerting 13%
  • Use Cloud Monitor to monitor application resource usage and health status.
  • Implement autoscaling rules, including scheduled autoscaling, and scaling by operational or system metrics.
  • Use Cloud Config to track resource configuration changes and evaluate configuration compliance.
Automation and Orchestration 12%
  • Use Alibaba Cloud services and features to manage and assess resource utilization.
  • Automate manual or repeatable processes to minimize management overhead by using resource orchestration tools like Terraform or Alibaba Cloud ROS/OOS/Serverless Workflow.
Official Information https://edu.alibabacloud.com/certification/aca_operator#top