CEA-C01 Exam Information and Outline
Alibaba Cloud Certified Associate: Cloud Engineer
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 13, 2026
CEA-C01 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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- Exam Format
- Multiple-choice and scenario-based questions; typically 50 questions, 90 minutes, passing score 70/100
- Module 1: Introduction and Basic Cloud Security
- Alibaba Cloud global infrastructure, regions, zones and CDN
- Cloud concepts, deployment and service models; pricing
- Shared responsibility model
- Account security: root and RAM users, groups, roles, MFA
- Module 2: Compute and Networking
- VPC: IP addressing, vSwitches, vRouters, network ACLs, security groups, internet access
- Elastic Compute Service: launching and releasing instances
- Container options: Kubernetes (ACK) and serverless
- Module 3: Storage
- Block, file and object storage; cloud disks and NAS
- Object Storage Service (OSS) features and operations
- Module 4: Databases
- Managed vs. self-hosted databases; ApsaraDB RDS engines
- Database security, backups, migration tools and PolarDB
- Module 5: Scaling and Monitoring
- Server Load Balancer types, components and health checks
- Disaster recovery and DDoS protection
- Auto Scaling with SLB; CloudMonitor dashboards and alerts