Learn about Alibaba Cloud Platform and its certification track, what will be value of certification and how anyone can prepare it to grow career in Alibaba Cloud

1. Start your
Alibaba Cloud
Certification
Journey
Chirag Nayyar
Alibaba Cloud Singapore Community

2. About
Started Career in 2016
Technical Sales Manager at Cloud Kinetics
Bunch of Cloud Certifications
Co-Organizer Alibaba Cloud Singapore
Community
youtube.com/datacenteroncloud

3. Agenda
• Why Alibaba Cloud Platform?
• What is the value of Certification?
• Alibaba Cloud Certification/s
• How to start preparing for exam?
• Q/A

4. Why Alibaba Cloud?
• 21 Regions and 63 Availability Zone
• $28B of investment in next 3 years
• 500+ Edge point globally & 2300+ in Mainland China
• Double 11 Record
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/19/alibaba-cloud-will-invest-28-billion-more-into-its-infrastructure-over-the-next-three-years/
https://www.chinainternetwatch.com/29999/double-11-2019/

5. Is Certification
Worth?
• Certs are game changers
• Push to learn
• Covering the foundation in details.

6. Alibaba Certification Catalogue
• Cloud Computing (Architect) – Associate, Professional, Expert
• Big Data - Associate, Professional, Expert
• Security – Associate & Professional

7. Alibaba Cloud Associate Cloud Computing
• Covers Core Product
• Entry Level Solution Design
• Starting point for fresher & Career Switch.
• 50 question , 100 Marks and 90 Mins
• 30 Single Answer , 10 MCQ, 10 True/False

8. Alibaba Cloud Associate Big Data/Security
• Covers Core Product
• Entry Level Solution Design
• Starting point for fresher & Career Switch.
• 60 question , 100 Marks and 90 Mins
• 30 Single Answer , 10 MCQ, 20 True/False for Big Data
• 40 Single Answer , 20 MCQ for Security Exam

9. Alibaba Cloud Professional Certifications
• Experience in IT Required
• 70 question , 100 Marks and 90 Mins (ACP Cloud Computing)
• 60 question , 100 Marks and 120 Mins (ACP Big Data)
• 80 question , 100 Marks and 120 Mins (ACP Security)
• Single Answer, MCQ, True False

10. Alibaba Cloud Expert Certifications
• Experience in IT Required and Complex Architecture
• 75 question , 150 Marks and 150 Mins (ACP Cloud Computing)
• 50 question , 100 Marks and 150 Mins (ACP Big Data)
• Single Answer, MCQ,

11. Certification
Level
Associate Level is
Mile Wide
Professional Level
is Mile Deep
Expert Level is Mile
Wide & Mile Deep

12. Tips
• Don’t confuse with too many resources
• Open your Alibaba Cloud Account and utilize
free trial generously
• Build something which cover most of the basic
concepts and services (i.e Multi tier Wordpress
Blog then migrate it to Containers Platform)

13. Resources
• Alibaba Cloud Academy (Start from here)
• Reddit (Recommended)
• Documentation/Coursera
• Alibaba Webinars/Events
• Community

14. Stay Update
Join Ding Talk Group – Scan the QR Code
Join Meetup Group - https://bit.ly/alibabaSG
Coming Meetup – Alibaba Compute Services
on 18th June 8 PM SGT

15. Alibaba Clouder Courses and Certificate
• Operate and Manage a Cloud Server
• https://edu.alibabacloud.com/clouder/exam/intro/152

16. Q/A