Huawei ICT Competition 2022 Middle East Exam Outline – Practice Track

Huawei ICT Competition 2022 Middle East Exam Outline

Practice Track

1. Overview

1.1. Practice Track of Huawei ICT Competition Preliminary Stage Overview

Number of Total
Competition Stage Exam Type Duration Question Types
Questions Score

True/False Question,
Single-Choice Question
Preliminary Stage Written 90 Minutes 60 1000
and Multiple-Choice
Question

1.2. Practice Track of Huawei ICT Competition National Final Stage Overview

Number of Total
Competition Stage Exam Type Duration Question Type
Questions Score

True/False question,
single-choice question
National Stage Written 90 Minutes 90 1000
and multiple-choice
question

1.3. Practice Track of Huawei ICT Competition Regional Final Stage Overview

Exam Number of Number of Total

Competition Stage Duration Question Type
Type Questions Contestants Score

True/False
question, single-
Written 60 Minutes 60 choice question 3(Personnel) 1000
Regional Stage and multiple-
choice question

Lab 4 Hours / / 3 (as a team) 1000

Remark: The final score=30% * the average score of the written exam of 3 examinees in the same team + 70% * the score of the
lab exam of the team.

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1.4. Network Track of Huawei ICT Competition Global Stage Overview

Number of
Competition Stage Exam Type Duration Question Type Total Score
Contestants

Global Stage Lab 8 Hours 3 (as a team) Comprehensive lab 1000

2. Weighting

2.1. Practice Track of Huawei ICT Competition Preliminary Stage Weighting

Competition Stage Direction Weight

Datacom 40%

Security 20%

WLAN 10%

Preliminary Stage Cloud 10%

Storage 5%

Big data 5%

AI 10%

2.2. Practice Track of Huawei ICT Competition National Stage Weighting

Competition Stage Direction Weight

Datacom 40%

Security 20%

WLAN 10%

National Stage Cloud 10%

Storage 5%

Big data 5%

AI 10%

2.3. Practice Track of Huawei ICT Competition Regional Stage Weighting

Competition Stage Direction Weight

Regional Stage Datacom 40%

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Security 20%

WLAN 10%

Cloud 10%

Storage 5%

Big data 5%

AI 10%
Remark: The written exam in Regional Stage involve Datacom, Security, WLAN, Cloud, Storage, Big data and AI. The lab exam
involve only Datacom, Security and WLAN.

2.4. Network Track of Huawei ICT Competition Global Stage Weighting

Competition Stage Direction Weight

Datacom 50%

Global Stage Security 40%

WLAN 10%

3. Scope

3.1. Overview of Exam Contents

The Fusion Track exam contents cover knowledge about datacom, security, WLAN, cloud, storage, AI and
big data technologies, including but not limited to routing protocols, Layer 2 switching technologies, IPv6
technologies, Huawei firewall features, VPN technologies, and WLAN networking and configurations,
HUAWEI CLOUD products and services, storage product knowledge, basic knowledge of big data,
machine learning.

3.2. Knowledge to Be Tested

Datacom
1. Datacom basics and TCP/IP protocol basics
2. Fundamentals, applications, and configurations of STP, RSTP, and MSTP switching
3. Fundamentals and applications of Ethernet technologies, VLAN, Eth-Trunk, stacking, and
clustering
4. Fundamentals and applications of IPv6 basics, stateless autoconfiguration, and DHCPv6 and IPv6
transition technologies
5. Fundamentals and applications of static routing, OSPF, OSPFv3, IS-IS (IPv4), IS-IS (IPv6), BGP,
BGP4+, and routing policies
6. WAN protocols (such as PPP) and PPPoE, as well as the applications of these protocols on Huawei
routers
7. Fundamentals and configurations of MPLS, MPLS VPN, GRE VPN, L2TP, and IPsec VPN

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8. Fundamentals and configurations of routing control technologies: ACL, IP prefix list, routing
policy, etc.
9. Fundamentals and configurations of network reliability technologies: VRRP, BFD, etc.
10. Fundamentals and configurations of network services: Telnet, FTP, DHCP, etc.
11. Implementation of network management, such as the fundamentals and configurations of SNMP
12. SDN fundamentals and networking: VXLAN, BGP EVPN, iMaster NCE applications, etc.
13. Fundamentals and configurations of multicast: IGMP, PIM, etc.
14. Fundamentals and configurations of QoS
15. Segment Routing fundamentals: SR-MPLS, SRv6, etc.
16. Fundamentals and configurations of programming automation, and implementation of network
automation, such as fundamentals and applications of SSH, NETCONF, YANG, Telemetry, OPS,
and RESTful
Security
1. Security information and security overview: information security standards and specifications,
privacy protection, common information security threats, threat defense, and information
security development trends
2. Network security basics: common network devices, basic network protocols, firewall security
policies, NAT, and firewall hot standby
3. Security attack and defense technologies: host security and hardening, web security, data
security, network intrusion and defense, anti-DDoS, packet filtering, blacklist and whitelist,
content filtering, and antivirus
4. Encryption and decryption technologies: encryption and decryption algorithms, PKI certificate
system, and application of cryptographic technologies
5. VPN technologies: L2TP VPN, GRE VPN, IPsec VPN, SSL VPN, L2TP over IPsec, etc.
6. Advanced firewall features and networking: intelligent uplink selection, SLB, bandwidth
management, virtual system, IPv6 technology, typical security networking design, etc
7. Security operations and analysis: security O&M operations, log management, security audit, and
dynamic awareness technologies
8. Endpoint security technologies: user management, endpoint security system deployment,
endpoint security system O&M, user authentication technologies, wireless network security
technologies, etc
WLAN
1. WLAN technology fundamentals: WLAN standard organizations, WLAN frequency bands, 802.11
protocols, and WLAN antenna technologies
2. WLAN networking models: Fat AP, WAC + Fit AP, cloud AP, hot standby backup, dual-link
backup, N+1 backup, and Mesh
3. WLAN implementation and deployment: CAPWAP fundamentals, AP onboarding, STA
onboarding, and WLAN configuration
4. WLAN roaming: common roaming, fast roaming using PMK caching, 802.11r roaming, smart
roaming, etc.
5. Radio resource management: radio calibration, load balancing, WLAN anti-interference
technology, QoS, and VIP experience assurance
6. WLAN topologies, 802.11 protocols, 802.11 PHY technologies, and CAPWAP fundamentals
7. WLAN security and defense: device management, user access security policies, intrusion
detection, antivirus, attack detection and defense, port isolation, CAPWAP tunnel encryption,
etc.
8. WLAN access control technologies: 802.1X authentication, Portal authentication, MAC address
authentication, hybrid authentication, and authentication and authorization
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9. WLAN and IoT convergence and WLAN positioning technologies

10. WLAN IPv6 network and IPv6 fundamentals
11. CloudCampus solution, VXLAN, underlay, fabric, and overlay
12. WLAN O&M: traditional O&M and intelligent O&M based on CampusInsight
13. WLAN network planning and design
14. WLAN fault troubleshooting
Cloud
1. Cloud computing related concepts, including definitions, features, modes, benefits, scenarios, and
future trends.
2. Cloud computing technologies, including storage, network, virtualization, and containers.
3. Scenarios of HUAWEI CLOUD products, including cloud services and Huawei Cloud Stack.
4. HUAWEI CLOUD solutions, including planning and design, application deployment in the cloud, and
application migration to the cloud.
5. Concepts, technical principles, and usage of HUAWEI CLOUD computing services, including ECS,
IMS, and AS.
6. Concepts, technical principles, and usage of HUAWEI CLOUD storage services, including OBS, EVS,
SFS, and CBR.
7. Concepts, technical principles, and usage of HUAWEI CLOUD network services, including VPC, EIP,
and ELB.
8. Concepts, technical principles, and usage of HUAWEI CLOUD management & governance services,
including CTS, Cloud Eye, IAM, and LTS.
9. Concepts, technical principles, and usage of HUAWEI CLOUD security services, including HSS, WAF,
and DBSS.
10. Concepts, technical principles, and usage of Huawei database services, including RDS and DDS.
11. Concepts, technical principles, and usage of HUAWEI CLOUD container services, including CCE and
AOS.
12. Concepts, technical principles, and usage of application development and governance services,
including CSE and ServiceStage.
Storage
1. Basics of storage, including product classification, components, technical principles, and application
scenarios.
2. RAID technologies, including RAID data protection and technical principles of traditional RAID (RAID
0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50) and RAID 2.0+.
3. Data storage, including the composition of a data storage system, and concepts, features,
technologies, and architectures of DAS, SAN, and NAS.
4. Common storage system protocols, including SCSI, FC, iSCSI, CIFS, and NFS.
5. Introduction to Huawei storage products, including OceanStor Dorado and OceanStor Pacific, and
their typical applications.
6. Product features, functions, hardware, interfaces, and typical networks of OceanStor Dorado V6.
7. Distributed storage technologies and applications, including the features of block, object, HDFS, and
file services.
8. Basic storage workload configuration, including creating storage pools, LUNs, hosts, and mapping;
installation of Huawei UltraPath software; configuration of the host connectivity between
Linux/Windows hosts and storage devices for blocks/files.
9. Technical principles, configuration process, and typical application scenarios of advanced

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technologies of Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 products (Smart series and Hyper series).
10. Common storage solutions, including active-passive DR, active-active DR, and data migration.
11. Storage system operation and O&M management, including O&M methods and common O&M tools
(DeviceManager, CLI, SmartKit, DME, eService, and eSight, etc.)
Big data
1. Basic big data components, including HDFS, ZooKeeper, Hive, HBase, MapReduce, YARN, Flink,
Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
2. Scenario-specific big data solutions, including offline processing, real-time retrieval, and real-time
stream processing.
3. Data pre-processing, including data ETL, data cleansing, feature processing, and imbalanced data
processing.
4. Feature selection and dimensionality reduction, including the Filter, Wrapper, and Embedded
methods.
5. Supervised learning, including linear regression, logistic regression, KNN, Naive Bayes, SVM, decision
tree, and integration algorithm.
6. Unsupervised learning, including prototype-based clustering, density-based clustering, hierarchical
clustering, and association algorithms.
7. Model evaluation and optimization, including the optimal model, model selection, and
regularization.
8. Spark MLlib data mining, including matrix vector, basic statistical analysis, feature extraction and
conversion, classification and regression, clustering and dimensionality reduction, association rules
and recommendation algorithms, and evaluation matrix.
AI
1. AI overview, including AI development history, technology fields, application areas, and future
outlook.
2. Machine learning, including basic concepts, overall process, and common algorithms.
3. Deep learning, including fully-connected neural networks, activation functions, gradient descent,
back propagation algorithms, optimizers, regularization, convolutional neural networks, recurrent
neural networks, and generative adversarial networks.
4. Huawei full-stack all-scenario AI, including ModelArts, MindSpore, Ascend, and Atlas.
5. Ascend inference application development, including Ascend AI processors, Atlas AI computing
solution, and CANN inference application development workflow.
6. MindSpore network migration, distributed training, and device-cloud inference and deployment.
7. Computer vision, including digital image processing, deep learning convolutional neural networks,
image classification, image segmentation, object detection tasks, and capability of completing image
processing tasks using MindSpore.
8. Speech processing, including speech signal pre-processing, speech recognition, and speech
synthesis.
9. Natural language processing (NLP), including tasks and methods of NLP, applications of recurrent
neural networks and transformers, and capability of completing NLP tasks using MindSpore.

Note:
This Exam Outline is for general use only. It does not cover all exam details.

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