Credential Code C9005500 · C1000-169

IBM Certified Associate
SRE - Cloud v2

Validate your skills in engineering scalable, secure, and highly reliable services — covering SRE fundamentals, incident management, observability, troubleshooting, operations, deployments, and security on IBM Cloud.

SRE Fundamentals Incident Management Observability Troubleshooting Operations Cloud Security

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IBM Certified Associate SRE

Cloud v2 · C1000-169

GroupCloud

Certification StatusActive

Credential CodeC9005500

Replaces Credential CodeC0010600

Exam LanguagesEnglish

Questions

To Pass

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Exam Status

Certification Overview

What This Certification Validates

An IBM Cloud Associate Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is a cloud professional who engineers scalable, secure, and highly reliable services that sustain service-level objectives, utilizing automation, DevOps principles, service observability, proactive maintenance, and rigorous troubleshooting for critical workloads on IBM Cloud.

Candidates interested in pursuing this exam are recommended to have already earned the IBM Cloud Technical Advocate certification.

It requires passing one exam: Test C1000-169 - IBM Cloud Associate SRE V2.

Recommended Skills

Key Areas of Competency

Systems Thinking

Understand how components interact within complex systems to ensure reliability.

DevOps Practices

Apply DevOps principles for continuous integration, delivery, and operations.

Application Observability

Build to manage with monitoring, logging, and observability practices.

Cloud Architecture Principles

Understand architectural patterns for scalable and resilient cloud systems.

Software Engineering Principles

Apply sound software engineering practices to operational tooling.

System Administration & Scripting

System administration principles plus development and testing skills in cloud scripting languages.

Exam Objectives

What the Exam Covers

During exam development, the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) define all of the tasks, knowledge and experience that an individual would need in order to successfully fulfill their role with the product or solution. These are represented by the objectives below and the questions on the exam are based upon these objectives.

Number of Questions

Questions to Pass

90 min

Time Allowed

Live

Exam Status

Certification Details

Required ExamC1000-169: IBM Cloud Associate SRE V2

GroupCloud

Certification StatusActive

Credential CodeC9005500

Replaces Credential CodeC0010600

Being Replaced ByN/A

Exam StatusLive

Exam LanguagesEnglish

This assessment exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed in the related job role and exam objectives. The sample test gives you an idea of the type and number of questions that may appear on the actual exam.

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Course Curriculum

Associate SRE - Cloud v2 Modules

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SRE Fundamentals and Terminology

7 Topics

Define key SRE responsibilities and SRE principles

Compare SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs and the relationship between them

Recall the benefits and foundational techniques of reliability and resiliency

Distinguish between the types of monitoring and techniques used to observe a system

Identify availability and performance impacts and solutions

Discover the value of the four golden signals

Name various troubleshooting techniques used to solve problems

Incident Management and Post-Incident Review

6 Topics

Outline key tenets, toolchain, and architecture of Incident Management

Illustrate the relationship between the service management processes

Define problem management and the benefits of using it

List techniques for doing a root cause analysis

Define post-incident review concepts

Demonstrate understanding of rank-ordered actions and automation use cases

Observability Topics

8 Topics

Review the benefits, types, and methods of monitoring and observability

Identify use and application of metrics

Demonstrate awareness of alert notification tools and situations that require an alert

Outline traces, distributed tracing and the importance of unique identifiers

Review resource utilization requirements and their application to monitoring strategies

Distinguish between various monitoring tools and metrics

Outline the purpose, benefits, and best practices of automated application monitoring

Demonstrate the importance of logging to SRE

Troubleshooting and Runbooks

7 Topics

Explain how troubleshooting fits into the SRE role and basic skills and habits of effective troubleshooting

Define IBM Cloud Code Engine and how it works

Outline how information can be found for troubleshooting

Demonstrate various troubleshooting techniques

Define troubleshooting techniques for IBM Cloud VSIs and IBM Cloud VMware

Identify troubleshooting techniques for IBM Cloud Internet Services

Explain how to troubleshoot block storage issues

Operations

11 Topics

Name the guidelines for an ORR

Demonstrate knowledge of how to perform an ORR

Apply SRE roles and responsibilities to application deployments

Define high availability and service architecture components as it relates to the workload

Explain the five tenets of Service Management and Operation as it relates to microservice architecture

Demonstrate knowledge of performance metrics monitoring tools

Outline the fundamentals of IBM Cloud Backup technology and services

Explain the importance of data integrity on IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Native Applications

Describe data recovery and restoration planning on IBM Cloud

Define data storage replication concepts for high availability and disaster recovery across various platforms and solutions

Name failure domains and the infrastructure used to ensure high availability

Deployments

3 Topics

Define the purpose, benefits and activities of continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment

Explain the benefits and approach of Infrastructure as Code with Schematics

Compare the three zero downtime deployment models

Security on IBM Cloud

5 Topics

Explain how to recognize and respond to security issues

Define user-related security policies

Outline Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Classify IBM's security incident response management

Define the role of an SRE in monitoring security issues

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the IBM Cloud Associate Site Reliability Engineer V2 Certification?

It is an IBM professional certification (C1000-169) that validates skills in engineering scalable, secure, and highly reliable services on IBM Cloud using SRE principles.

Who should pursue this certification?

This certification is ideal for cloud professionals responsible for site reliability, incident management, observability, and operations on IBM Cloud.

What is the exam format and duration?

The exam (C1000-169) consists of 65 multiple-choice questions, with a passing score of 45, to be completed within 90 minutes.

What did this certification replace?

This certification (C9005500) replaces the previous credential C0010600, reflecting updates to IBM Cloud SRE practices and exam objectives.

Does Zetlan Technologies provide hands-on labs for this course?

Yes, our training includes hands-on labs covering incident management, observability, troubleshooting, operations, deployments, and security on IBM Cloud.

What prerequisite knowledge is recommended before attempting this exam?

Candidates are recommended to have already earned the IBM Cloud Technical Advocate certification along with foundational knowledge of DevOps and cloud architecture.

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