C1000-169: IBM Cloud Associate SRE V2

C1000-169: IBM Cloud Associate SRE V2

Full Name: IBM Cloud Associate SRE V2

Exam Code: C1000-169

Certification Overview


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 IBM Cloud Technical Advocate certification. 

Recommended Skills 


Understanding of:

◉ Systems Thinking
◉ DevOps practices
◉ Build to Manage / Application observability
◉ Cloud Architecture principles
◉ oftware Engineering principles
◉ System Administration principles
◉ Development skills in one or more cloud programming/scripting language (including unit, integration, and performance testing)


IBM Cloud Associate Exam Summary:


Exam Name
IBM Certified Associate SRE - Cloud v2
Exam Code 
C1000-169
Exam Price 
$200 (USD)
Duration 
90 mins
Number of Questions 
65
Passing Score 
65%
Training
Sample Questions
Practice Exam

IBM C1000-169 Exam Syllabus Topics:


Topic Details Weights
SRE Fundamentals and Terminology - 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
15%
Incident Management and Post-Incident Reviews - 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
12%
Observability 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
18%
Troubleshooting and Runbooks - 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
19%
Operations - 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
19%
Deployments - 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
9%
Security on IBM Cloud - 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
8%

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