Huawei ICT Competition 2023-2024 Exam Outline

Practice Competition - Cloud Track

1. Overview
Number of Number of
Competition Stage Exam Type Duration Question Type Total Score Note
Questions Contestants
True or false questions, From January 1, 2023 to the end date of the regional preliminary, 50 bonus
Preliminary stage
Written 90 minutes 60 single-answer questions, and 1000 points will be acquired for passing any of HCIA-Cloud/Big Data/AI certification,
(Mandatory)
multiple-answer questions 100 bonus points for any of HCIP-Cloud/Big Data/AI certification, and 200 bonus
Individual points for any of HCIE-Cloud/Big Data/AI certification. These bonus points can
True or false questions, be combined up to a maximum of 200 points.
National stage
Written 90 minutes 90 single-answer questions, and 1000 Important: The Uniportal account used for the competition registration must be
(Optional)
multiple-answer questions the same as that for the certification. Otherwise, no bonus point can be given.
True or false questions, In regional stage, each of the three contestants in a team needs to complete the
Written 60 minutes 60 single-answer questions, and 1000 test questions for the written exam, and they will together complete the tasks for
Regional stage multiple-answer questions the lab exam. One team can submit only one set of answers for each of their
3 (as a team) written and lab exams. Total score = 30% x Average written exam score of the
Lab 4 hours / Comprehensive lab 1000 team + 70% x Comprehensive lab exam score.
Global stage Lab 8 hours / Comprehensive lab 1000 /

2. Weighting
Competition Stage Direction Preliminary stage National stage Regional stage Global stage
Cloud 40% 40% 40% 40%
Big data 20% 20% 15% 15%
AI 40% 40% 45% 45%

3. Scope
3.1. Overview of Exam Contents

The Cloud Track exam contents cover knowledge about cloud, AI, and big data, including but not limited to the knowledge of cl oud computing, cloud native, Huawei
Cloud products and services, Huawei Cloud solutions, basics of big data, basic principles and applications of big data components, big data mining, AI technologies and
applications, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

3.2. Knowledge to Be Tested

Preliminary National Regional Global
stage stage stage stage
Direction Category Key Items Description
HCIE or
HCIA HCIP HCIE
above
IT developments Concept of IT evolution: physical environment > virtual environment > private cloud/public cloud √ √ √ √
Cloud Cloud computing concepts Development, definition, value, and classification of cloud computing √ √ √ √
computing
concepts Private cloud concepts Private cloud concepts, mainstream vendors and products, and application scenarios √ √ √ √
Public cloud concepts Public cloud concepts, mainstream vendors and products, and application scenarios √ √ √ √
Huawei Cloud overview, Huawei Cloud application scenarios, Huawei Cloud ecosystem, introduction to AZs,
Huawei Cloud √ √ √ √
regions, Identity and Access Management (IAM), projects, and Huawei Cloud billing modes
Compute service overview, Elastic Cloud Server (ECS), Image Management Service (IMS), and Auto
Compute services √ √ √ √
Scaling (AS)
Similarities and differences between traditional networks and cloud networks, VPC technologies, security
Cloud network services √ √ √ √
groups, Access Control List (ACL), Elastic IP (EIP), and Elastic Load Balance (ELB)
Data storage concepts and development, cloud storage concepts, classification, and application scenarios,
Cloud storage services and concepts, technical principles, and usage of Object Storage Service (OBS), Elastic Volume Service √ √ √ √
(EVS), Scalable File Service (SFS), and Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR)
Public cloud
service Database overview and development, relational database concepts, cloud database introduction, Relational
Cloud database services √ √ √ √
operations Database Service (RDS), non-relational database service, and database backup
Cloud Cloud O&M overview and tools, and concepts, technical principles, and usage of Cloud Eye (CES), Cloud
Cloud O&M √ √ √ √
Trace Service (CTS), Log Tank Service (LTS), and IAM
Web Application Firewall (WAF), Host Security Service (HSS), Vulnerability Scan Service (VSS), Data
Cloud security √ √ √
Encryption Workshop (DEW), and Cloud Bastion Host (CBH)
Application Operations Management (AOM), Application Performance Management (APM), and Application
Application O&M √ √ √
Service Mesh (ASM)
Cloud migration of
Planning and design, and application migration to the cloud √ √ √
application systems
Cloud native concepts, including the development, definition, features, models, benefits, application
Cloud native concepts √ √ √
Cloud native scenarios, and future trends
basic Huawei Cloud container service, including concepts, technical principles, and usage of containers, container
services Cloud native infrastructure
engines, container images, container repositories, Kubernetes concept and architecture, Kubernetes √ √ √
- Container technology
orchestration, and Huawei Cloud Cloud Container Engine (CCE)
Huawei Cloud serverless service, including the concepts, forms, advantages, and benefits, and technical
Cloud native Microservice concepts √ √
principles and applications of FunctionGraph
application
building Cloud native Application development & governance services, including the concepts, technical principles, and usage of
√ √
application building Cloud Service Engine (CSE) and ServiceStage
Basic concepts and characteristics of big data, development trend of the big data industry, and Huawei
Basic concepts √ √ √ √
Kunpeng big data
Common big Basic technical principles of common and important big data components, including HDFS, HBase, Hive,
√ √ √ √
data components ClickHouse, MapReduce, YARN, Spark, Flink, Flume, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and ZooKeeper
Big data MapReduce Service Introduction to the Huawei big data platform MRS and its architecture design and core features, purchase
storage and (MRS) √ √ √ √
and use, and application development
processing
Scenario-specific big Scenario-specific big data offline processing, real-time big data retrieval, and real-time big data stream
√ √ √
data solutions processing solutions
Data lake solution Data lake concepts and solution of data import into the lake √ √
Data governance Data governance methodology √ √
Big data
Data preprocessing, including missing values, abnormal values, duplicate values, unbalanced data
Data preprocessing √ √
processing, and skew data processing
Feature engineering Feature selection, including Filter, Wrapper, and Embedded √
Supervised learning Supervised learning, including regression algorithms, classification algorithms, and integration algorithms √

Data mining Unsupervised learning Unsupervised learning, including clustering algorithms, association algorithms, and dimensionality reduction
√
algorithms
Model evaluation
Model evaluation and optimization, including model selection and algorithm evaluation metrics √
and optimization
PySpark MLlib PySpark MLlib classification and regression, clustering and dimensionality reduction, association rules and
√
data mining recommendation algorithms, and evaluation matrix
Basic AI concepts AI-related concepts, development, and applications √ √ √ √
AI research fields include computer vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and automatic speech
AI technology fields √ √ √ √
recognition (ASR).
AI basics
Cutting-edge AI
Trends and scenarios of cutting-edge AI technologies, including autonomous driving, quantum machine
technologies and √ √ √ √
learning, reinforcement learning, and knowledge graph
scenarios
Traditional machine learning algorithms, ensemble learning algorithms (boosting and bagging),
Machine learning √ √ √ √
hyperparameter search algorithms, model evaluation, and model validity (overfitting and underfitting)

AI algorithm Deep learning algorithms (including fully-connected neural networks, CNN, RNN, LSTM, and GAN), loss
function, gradient descent, neural network calculation process, optimizer and activation function, and
Deep learning √ √ √ √
regularization
Common problems and handling, including gradient disappearance and data sample imbalance
Huawei AI full-stack and
Huawei AI all-scenario application Huawei Cloud ModelArts, Ascend processors, and Atlas AI solutions √ √ √ √
development
platform Huawei Cloud AI Huawei Cloud AI development platform, including data labeling, ExeML, cloud development environment,
√ √ √ √
development platform algorithm management, training management, and application deployment
AI AI development framework The MindSpore architecture and the all-scenario application of the MindSpore framework √ √ √ √
MindSpore operating environment configuration and basics (tensor construction, data types and type
MindSpore basics
conversion, and use of common functions and classes), data operations (dataset construction, data √ √ √ √
MindSpore and usage
transformation, data enhancement, etc.), network construction, model training, saving, and loading
development
framework MindSpore features Use of dynamic graphs and static graphs, and implementation of inference and deployment on devices and
√ √ √
cloud
MindSpore development MindSpore AI application development process
√ √ √
process and components MindSpore components: MindSpore Serving, MindSpore Lite, and MindInsight
Digital image processing
Computer vision tasks: image classification, image segmentation, and target detection
Computer vision √ √
Common computer vision algorithms: ResNet, YOLO, and VGG
Computer vision application development based on MindSpore
AI application
Voice signal preprocessing, voice processing tasks (such as voice recognition and text to speech), and voice
development Voice processing √ √
processing application development based on MindSpore
Text data processing, word embedding, NLP tasks (emotional classification, machine translation, named
Natural Language
entity recognition), common NLP algorithms (Transformer, Bert, and ELMO), and NLP application √ √
Processing (NLP)
development based on MindSpore

Note
This Exam Outline is for reference only. It does not cover all exam details.

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