Curriculum
ACP-003 — 6-Module Programme
- Terraform fundamentals on Alibaba Cloud — providers, resources, state management, modules, and remote state with OSS backend
- Alibaba Cloud ROS (Resource Orchestration Service) — template syntax, stack management, and drift detection
- IaC best practices — modularisation, workspaces, secrets management with Terraform Vault, and GitOps workflows
- End-to-end lab: Deploy a multi-tier VPC + ECS + RDS + SLB stack with Terraform and manage lifecycle operations
- CloudMonitor — custom metrics, alert rules, dashboards, and event-driven automation for ECS, RDS, SLB, and ACK
- Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) — APM tracing, distributed profiling, and error diagnostics for microservices
- Simple Log Service (SLS) — log ingestion, Logstore design, query language, and alert integration with notification channels
- Prometheus + Grafana on ACK — scraping, recording rules, alertmanager, and dashboards for Kubernetes workloads
- CodePipeline architecture — source triggers, build stages, test gates, and deployment to ECS, ACK, and Function Compute
- Container image lifecycle — ACR Personal vs Enterprise, image scanning, tag policies, and Dragonfly P2P acceleration
- Blue-Green and Canary deployments on ACK using Argo Rollouts and native Kubernetes strategies
- Helm chart development, versioning, and Helm repository management with Alibaba Cloud Container Registry
- RAM (Resource Access Management) — users, roles, policies, AssumeRole, and STS for dynamic credential generation
- Key Management Service (KMS) — envelope encryption, CMK rotation, and integration with ECS, OSS, and RDS
- Secret Manager for application credentials — automatic rotation, injection into pods, and audit logging
- DevSecOps pipeline integration — SAST/DAST scanning, container image vulnerability scanning, and compliance gates
- ACK cluster types — Dedicated, Managed, Serverless, and Edge — selection criteria and configuration best practices
- Kubernetes workloads — Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs, and HorizontalPodAutoscaler
- Networking in ACK — Terway CNI plugin, Service (ClusterIP/NodePort/LoadBalancer), Ingress, and NetworkPolicy
- Storage in ACK — PersistentVolumes backed by cloud disks, NAS, and OSS; StorageClass and dynamic provisioning
- Multi-AZ HA design for stateless and stateful workloads — ECS Auto Scaling, RDS Multi-AZ, and SLB health checks
- Disaster recovery architectures — RPO/RTO targets, active-standby and active-active patterns with CEN and Global Accelerator
- HA for ACK — multi-zone node pools, pod disruption budgets, topology spread constraints, and cluster autoscaler
- Cost optimisation — Spot instances in Auto Scaling, Fargate/Serverless ACK for batch, and resource right-sizing
ACP DevOps Engineer Professional
Course & Exam Details
6 Modules
Full ACP-003 domains
90 Minutes
Exam duration
70 Questions
MCQ format
65 / 100
Passing score (Professional)
USD 120.00
Exam registration fee
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