ACA-Operator Exam Information and Outline
ACA System Operator certification
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 10, 2026
ACA-Operator Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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official ACA-Operator exam objectives. This course outline serves as your roadmap.
The information below reflects the 2026 syllabus defined by
Alibaba-Cloud.
Below are complete topics detail with latest syllabus and course outline, that will help you good knowledge about exam objectives and topics that you have to prepare. These contents are covered in questions and answers pool of exam.
- Exam Format
- Approx. 60 multiple-choice/multiple-select questions; 60 minutes; passing score 65%
- Cloud Computing Basics
- Regions, zones and Alibaba Cloud global infrastructure
- Shared responsibility model and billing methods
- Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
- Instance types, images, snapshots and cloud disks
- Security groups and remote connection
- Instance lifecycle operations
- Networking
- VPC, vSwitches, EIP, NAT Gateway
- Server Load Balancer (SLB) and health checks
- Storage
- Object Storage Service (OSS): buckets, objects, permissions and lifecycle
- NAS and block storage
- Elasticity and Monitoring
- Auto Scaling groups and rules
- CloudMonitor metrics, alerts and dashboards
- ActionTrail and log management
- Identity and Security Operations
- Resource Access Management (RAM): users, groups, roles, policies
- Anti-DDoS and Security Center basics
- Troubleshooting and Operational Best Practices