Alibaba Cloud Associate (ACA) Cloud Computing [Course]

Discover how a cloud provider's global infrastructure uses regions and zones, typically three zones per region, to optimize latency, cost, and regulatory compliance with interconnectivity and high availability.

Explore Alibaba Cloud's global infrastructure, covering 30 regions and 89 availability zones, with international and mainland China regions, and learn about expansions like Wuhan and upcoming South Africa.

Learn how cloud security protects data and applications with encryption, multi-factor authentication, and other tools, while navigating compliance standards like GDPR and HIPAA to secure data in the cloud.

Explore Alibaba Cloud elastic compute service (ecs) as scalable, secure infrastructure as a service for virtual machines, with region and zone architecture, private networking, monitoring, and diverse billing models.

Explore Alibaba Cloud ECS instances, virtual machines you can fully customize, with diverse instance types and sizes, plus metadata and user defined data for startup configuration.

Explore three ECS scenarios: hosting scalable web apps with Apache or Nginx, big data processing with Hadoop, Spark, or Flink, and flexible development and testing with snapshots and SSH.

Learn to use Alibaba Cloud's ECS to create and manage virtual machines. Configure images, networks, security groups, storage, and login credentials in the Germany region.

Explore Alibaba Cloud's server load balancer concepts, including load distribution, high availability, security, health checks, and auto scaling integration across Alb, Nlb, and Clb for scalable traffic management.

Explore Alibaba Cloud's SLB components: instances, listeners, and backend ECS servers; learn region, zone, naming, health checks, and scheduling algorithms round robin, weighted round robin, and weighted least connections.

Discover how Alibaba Cloud SLB enables high availability with multi-zone disaster recovery, an active-passive backup zone, and a 30-second automatic failover, plus DNS-driven cross-region recovery.

Explore three scenarios where SLB boosts availability, scalability, and security for web apps, e-commerce, and microservices by routing traffic, performing health checks, and enabling SSL termination.

Automate resource adaptation with Alibaba Cloud auto scaling to match demand and avoid overprovisioning or under provisioning, using elastic scale up, scale down, and self-healing.

Explore Alibaba Cloud ECS auto scaling concepts, including scaling group, configuration, rule, activity, and trigger tasks, to set min/max capacity, cooldowns, and templates to automatically adjust ECS instances.

Explore three common autoscaling scenarios for Alibaba Cloud: web application with traffic spikes, batch processing workloads, and containerized microservices, to optimize performance, control costs, and prevent overprovisioning.

Discover Alibaba Cloud's RDS, a fully managed relational database service with automatic failover and scalable storage, supporting MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, PPAS, and MariaDB on the Apsara file system.

Explore Alibaba Cloud RDS features, including automatic and manual backups with configurable retention, OSS archive storage, read-only and temporary instances, and the DTS migration service for data recovery and scaling.

Explore three-level RDS security: anti-ddos integration, IP whitelist up to 1000 addresses, and protection against SQL injection. Monitor performance in real time with CPU, IOPS, and Cloud Monitor diagnostics.

Explore how RDS powers apps and APIs with managed databases for CMS and e-commerce. Scale resources, secure data, support analytics and enterprise apps with high availability, backups, and read replicas.

Learn Alibaba Cloud OSS, an object storage service that stores data as objects in buckets with keys and metadata, supporting standard, infrequent access, and archival storage, plus lifecycle management.

Learn how to host a static website on Alibaba Cloud OSS, compare static and dynamic sites, and bind a custom domain with a CNAME to boost branding and scalability.

Log in to the Alibaba Cloud Console, create a public OSS bucket in Germany, upload index.html, and enable static website hosting with a default home page.

Explore OSS security with server side, client side, and transmission encryption using KMS or bring your own key, plus ACL, RAM, bucket policies, and logging for monitoring.

Explore OSS common scenarios for data backup and archiving, static website hosting, and data-intensive applications, highlighting durability, cost savings, archival compliance, CDN delivery, and data governance.

Alibaba cloud security follows a shared responsibility model, with Alibaba securing the infrastructure and services while customers protect data and access controls using Ram, Security Center, Anti-DDoS, and WAF.

Leverage Alibaba Cloud Log Service, a fully managed real-time data ingestion and analysis platform that collects logs from applications, servers, containers, and IoT, with powerful queries and dashboards.

Explore the ACA cloud computing associate exam overview, including 50 questions, 100 points, a 90-minute duration, and offline testing logistics.

Learn to book your ACA cloud computing associate exam by purchasing first, applying the voucher, and scheduling via Pearson VUE with preferred test centers and date.