Alibaba Cloud: The Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

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.	Start to Learn
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.	Start to Learn
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self-Test
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.	Start to Learn
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.	Start to Learn
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self-Test
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.	Start the Lab
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.	Start to Learn
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self-Test
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.	Start to Learn
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.	Start to Learn
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."	Start to Learn
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.	Start to Learn

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.	Start to Learn
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.	Start to Learn
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	Start the Lab
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self-Test
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.	Start to Learn
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.	Start the Lab
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self - Test
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self - Test
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self - Test
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self-Test

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	Start to Learn
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.	Start to Learn
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self-Test
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.	Start to Learn
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self-Test
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.	Start the Lab
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self-Test
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"	Srart to Learn
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.	Start to Learn	Start Self-Test

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Data Backup and Recovery Using RDS

In this experiment, an RDS instance is used as the database, and the following scenario is simulated: Recover the data deleted by mistake. Some data already exists on the RDS instance. Physical backup and logical backup are performed on the RDS instance, the operation of deleting data tables is simulated, and then the backup data is used to restore the RDS data that is mistakenly deleted

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Use Auto Scaling To Automatically Adjust Web Resources

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Build a Relational Database Using RDS

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