CSA-C01 Exam Information and Outline
Alibaba Cloud Certified Associate: Cloud Security Engineer
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 9, 2026
CSA-C01 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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- Exam Format
- 50 questions; duration 90 minutes; passing score 70/100; Pearson VUE
- Network Security and Threat Mitigation (28%)
- VPC security groups and network ACLs
- Cloud Firewall and Web Application Firewall
- Anti-DDoS, Bot Management and GameShield
- Host Security (24%)
- Security Center and ECS hardening
- Bastionhost jump-server access
- ActionTrail audit logs and Cloud Config compliance rules
- Data Security (22%)
- Key Management Service and envelope encryption
- OSS and RDS encryption; SSL certificates
- Sensitive Data Discovery and Protection; Secrets Manager
- Identity and Access Management (18%)
- RAM users, groups, roles and policies
- MFA, SSO, STS and Resource Directory
- Cloud Security Basics (8%)
- Shared responsibility model and MLPS classification
- Compliance frameworks and cloud threat fundamentals