Stage I: Get Started With Alibaba Cloud Computing Products

Learning Module

Course Name

Objective

Course Video

Exam

Week 1 Introduction

Alibaba Cloud Introduction

This course can help you understand Alibaba Cloud basic knowledge, concepts and products, including cloud computing, security, networking, storage and database. This course is a good start for non-technical people to start cloud journey.

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Week 2 ECS

Elastic Compute Services Overview - Part 1

In this course, you will start with the basic concepts of ECS, including regions and zones as well as instance families. After the basics, the course will help you understand how to choose the right ECS type for different workloads and how to purchase ECS on Alibaba Cloud. Lastly, storage and networking features of ECS will be introduced.

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Week 2 ECS

Elastic Compute Services Overview - Part 2

In this course, we are going to continue with Alibaba Cloud ECS product, but focus more on additional settings, including instance matadata and user data. After all the concepts, this course will also show you how to use ECS with multiple demos.

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Week 2 ECS

ECS: Image Import And Export – Live Demo

Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service Image Import & Export video shows how to manage images. This live-demo webinar will give an overview about the platform, its UI, Image management use-cases, etc.

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Week 3 ECS

Introduction to Alibaba Cloud EIP and Premium EIP

You will learn how public IP address resources can be bound and dynamically unbound to Alibaba Cloud VPC-type ECS instances, NAT gateway, and Intranet Server Load Balancer in order to meeting the needs for flexible management.

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Week 3 ECS

Using ECS to Construct a Dynamic Website

Want to learn how to construct a dynamic website that can actively update its content? In this Clouder course, you will learn how to build a WordPress website on Alibaba Cloud.

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Week 3 ECS

hands-on lab

Linux Data Disk Resizing Experiment

This experiment demonstrates how to resize data disks for Alibaba Cloud ECS instances in the Ubuntu system.This is a common occurrence in the production environment. As a business grows, the capacity of the data disks on servers may be insufficient. In this case, you must resize the data disks.This experiment demonstrates how to resize a data disk on an ECS instance.

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Week 4 ECS

A Quick Demo of How to Easily Migrate Your Linux Server to Alibaba Cloud

In this demo video, we will show you how to use go2aliyun_client tool to migrate your Linux server to Alibaba Cloud with only a few necessary data configured.

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Week 4 ECS

Build Your First Personal Website On Alibaba Cloud Using ECS 

In this short video, we introduce how to quickly deploy a personal website with Alibaba Cloud ECS and Marketplace service.

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Week 4 ECS

Quickly Build A WordPress Website Using Resource Template On The Cloud

In this Clouder course, you will learn how to conveniently publish a WordPress website with a set of prescribed scripts using Alibaba Cloud ROS service.

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Week 4 ECS

How to Troubleshoot Web Hosting Service Issues

This video will show how to find and resolve issues including database connection, DNS record and invalid response.

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Week 4 ECS

Lab Demo for Disk Backup and Recovery

"This is a step-by-step operation demonstration on how to use snapshot to do ECS data disk backup and recovery.
For more details of ECS product, please access here."

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Week 4 ECS

Alibaba Cloud ECS Product Purchasing Options

This video will show different types of purchasing models provided by Alibaba Cloud for customers to enable savings in their workload pattern.

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Stage II: Keep Learning On Alibaba Cloud Storage and Database Core Products

Learning Module

Course Name

Objectives

Course Video

Exam

Week 5 OSS

ACA Object Storage Service Fundamentals

This course explains the basic concepts of OSS along with demos, including bucket management, object storage operations, image processing, website hosting, and monitoring. It also introduces the OSS related security features.

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Week 5 OSS

Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service – Live Demo

This live-demo webinar gives an overview of the concepts and specially emphasizes on features that differentiate this offering from competitive offerings of other cloud providers in terms of cost efficiency, high availability and durability.

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Week 5 OSS

hands-on lab

Build a Local File System with OSS

This experiment is designed to attach an OSS bucket to a local file system through the OSSFS tool

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Week 6 OSS

Using OSS to Publish a Static Website

In this course, you will learn how to publish a static website using Alibaba Cloud services and complete the ICP process.

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Week 6 OSS

Cross Region OSS Replication With Function Compute

This short video will show you how to easily achieve cross region data replication on Alibaba Cloud OSS with a quick demo.

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Week 6 OSS

hands-on lab

OSS Static Website Hosting

This experiment mainly uses the Alibaba Cloud OSS product and introduces how to perform static website hosting through OSS. You can set up your bucket to work in static website hosting mode on OSS Console.

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Week 7 Database

ACA Cloud Computing Preparation - RDS

This course introduces basic concepts of RDS, its benefits (comparing to conventional database solutions), and key features, along with demos of database / account management, security settings, read-only instances, database backups, and third-party tool integration.

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Week 7 Database

MySQL Database Concepts and Operations

In this course, the trainees will have a comprehensive understanding of MySQL database by mastering the MySQL relevant basic concept, deployment procedure, HA solution, commonly used backup and recovery method, and daily inspection skills.

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Week 8 Database

MySQL for Beginners - Basic Queries

This course mainly introduces the usage of SELECT statement and its clauses. It also describes how to use warning and error messages to troubleshoot problems in MySQL, how to set SQL mode, and how the SQL mode affects the intepretation of SQL syntax.

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Week 8 Network

Network Series Courses

In this course, you will understand computing network knowledge comprehensively with basic concepts, including routing and switching knowledge system, load balancing working theory as well as widely used network security solutions.

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Stage III: Work Towards Your Certification

Learning Module

Course Name

Objectives

Course Video

Exam

Week 9 Network

How to Troubleshoot Network Latency Issue

In this course, we will explain what network latency and packet loss​ are, how to confirm packet loss​, and how to use MTR tool to find packet loss

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Week 9 Network

How to Find a RequestID

In this course, you will learn what a RequestID is and its significance as well as how to find RequestID in the browser.

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Week 9 SLB

ACA Cloud Computing - SLB

This course introduces you the basics of Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB) to help you master the power of elastic computing with SLB.

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Week 9 SLB

Lab Demo for SLB Configuration

This course covers a step-by-step operations demonstration on how to use Server Load Balancer to realize web service high availability.

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Week 10 SLB

Handle Large Traffic with Load Balancer

Increasing traffic often results in a delayed response from web servers or even a halt in service. Load balancing lies in "sharing." When massive traffic is detected, the traffic should be distributed to multiple servers to improve the external service capability of the website and avoid the impact of a single point failure. In this online course, we teach the basics of load balancing, principles and scenarios, and master cloud platform load balancing features and usage.

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Week 10 SLB

hands-on lab

Use Server Load Balancer to Realize High Availability

Server Load Balancer is a service that distributes traffic among multiple ECS instances. It can scale up the service capability of an application system by distributing traffic and enhance availability by eliminating SPOFs.

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Week 11 Network

ACA Cloud Computing - Auto Scaling

This course provides fundamental knowledge for you to obtain the ability of scaling your architecture with Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling.

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Week 11 Security

Alibaba Cloud Managed Security Services Introduction

"Through this course, you will better understand what Alibaba Cloud Managed Security Services can do for you as well as the whole service structure and benefits.To know more about this service, please visit this link"

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Week 12 Security

Cloud Platform Security Overview

This course introduces Alibaba Cloud security products line and the design strategy for you to better understand the transition from traditional IT infrastructure to cloud infrastructure, including current information security best practices and trends, and security risks reduction with cloud platform.

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