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A Cloud Engineer is responsible for understanding Alibaba Cloud services to create, configure, and manage cloud resources. This foundational role is essential for advancing to specialized positions and plays a key part in supporting cloud operations within an organization through effective resource management and collaboration.

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What You'll Learn

 

  • Understand the core concepts of cloud computing and the Alibaba Cloud platform.
  • Learn the fundamentals of Alibaba Cloud architecture, products, and services.
  • Deploy and manage Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances in Alibaba Cloud.
  • Configure and use cloud storage and database services for business applications.
  • Understand networking concepts including VPC, load balancing, and secure connectivity.
  • Implement basic security controls and access management in Alibaba Cloud environments.
  • Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot cloud resources and services effectively.
  • Explore best practices for cloud deployment, scalability, and high availability.
  • Gain hands-on knowledge of managing cloud infrastructure for real-world workloads.
  • Prepare for the Alibaba Certified Cloud Engineer (Associate) certification exam.

 

Who Should Attend

The target audience for a Certified Alibaba Cloud Associate course includes junior cloud engineers, IT professionals, and systems administrators looking to build foundational skills in Alibaba Cloud services. It also appeals to developers, IT support staff, and recent graduates interested in cloud infrastructure and resource management. Additionally, SME owners and consultants who need to understand Alibaba Cloud for business or advisory purposes would benefit from this course.

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Prerequisites

  • Fundamental Cloud Service Knowledge: Understanding core Alibaba Cloud Services (E.g. ECS, VPC, OSS, RDS, ACK, CDN) and their use cases.
  • Basic Tool Knowledge: Familiarity with tools for managing cloud resources, including Auto Scaling, DTS and DMS
  • Basic Network Configuration: Understanding how to configure network elements such as VPCs, security groups, and SLBs
  • Basic Security and Monitoring Knowledge: Awareness of essential security practices to secure the Alibaba Cloud account (via RAM), and basic knowledge of resource monitoring service

 

 

Learning Journey

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Module 1: Introduction to Alibaba Cloud and Basic Cloud Security

Getting to know Alibaba Cloud

  • Who we are
  • Global Infrastructure
  • Region and zones
  • Alibaba Cloud CDN
  • Choosing where to deploy services
  • Why Cloud
  • What is the cloud
  • Cloud deployment and service models
  • Shared Responsibility model
  • Cloud Pricing models

Basic Cloud Account Security

  • Alibaba Cloud accounts and identities
  • Root user, RAM user, RAM user groups, RAM roles
  • Interacting with Alibaba Cloud
  • Setting up your Alibaba account
  • Authentication and authorization
  • Credentials in Alibaba Cloud
  • Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
  • Locking down the root user

Module 2: Compute on Alibaba Cloud

Elastic Compute Service Fundamentals

  • Computing on and off the cloud
  • Understanding traditional and cloud servers
  • Compute options on Alibaba Cloud
  • What is Alibaba Cloud ECS
  • Functions and features
  • Basic operations
  • Launching and releasing instances
  • Duplicating launched instances
  • Other compute options on Alibaba Cloud
  • Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (container)
  • Alibaba Cloud Elastic Container Instances (serverless)

Module 3: Networking on Alibaba Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud Fundamentals

  • Networking basics and terminology (IP addresses and CIDR blocks)
  • What is Alibaba Cloud VPC
  • Concepts & components
  • vSwitches
  • vRouters
  • Network ACLs
  • Security groups
  • Basic operations
  • Setting up security groups
  • Enabling Internet access for resources within VPCs

Module 4: Storage on Alibaba Cloud

Object Storage Service Fundamentals

  • Storage types on Alibaba Cloud (file, block, object storage)
  • Elastic Block Storage
  • Understanding cloud disks
  • Apsara File Storage NAS
  • What is OSS
  • Concepts & components
  • Buckets, objects, URL identifiers
  • Functions and features
  • Bucket policies, versioning, storage tiers, lifecycle management
  • Use cases
  • Basic operations
  • Creating buckets
  • Uploading and downloading objects from buckets

Module 5: Databases on Alibaba Cloud

ApsaraDB RDS Fundamentals

  • Databases on the cloud
  • RDBs and RDBMSs
  • Managed and self-hosted DBs
  • What is ApsaraDB RDS
  • Supported engines
  • What is a DB instance
  • Security & backups
  • Tools
  • Data Transmission Service
  • Database Management Service
  • Other DB options on Alibaba Cloud
  • PolarDB (Cloud-native RDB developed in-house)
  • Other options for NoSQL, etc.

Module 6: Scaling & Monitoring Alibaba Cloud Resources

Server Load Balancer Fundamentals

  • Availability and business continuity
  • What is SLB
  • Types of load balancers in Alibaba Cloud
  • Concepts and components
  • Listener, backend server groups
  • Health checks
  • Additional features
  • Disaster recovery
  • Auto Scaling
  • DDoS protection

Auto Scaling Fundamentals

  • What is Auto Scaling
  • How Auto Scaling works
  • Concepts & components
  • Scaling modes, scaling components
  • Scaling considerations
  • Basic operations
  • Setting up Auto Scaling with SLB

CloudMonitor Fundamentals

  • Why monitoring matters
  • What is CloudMonitor
  • Concepts & components
  • Application groups
  • Dashboards and alerts
  • Basic operations
  • Creating a dashboard and setting up an alert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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