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Tencent Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Engineer Certification Exam Version Upgrade Notice
2026-08-13 21:00:00
Certification Upgrade
The Tencent Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Engineer Certification Chinese version will be upgraded on September 18, 2026. Please visit Tencent Cloud Training & Certification to view certification details and start your learning experience.
《Tencent Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Engineer》
1.Upgrade Overview
The certification content will be comprehensively upgraded. The upgrade details are as follows:
Knowledge Area | Previous Version | New Version | Change Description |
Compute Services | Included under “Cloud Foundation Services” | 8.33% | Separated from the original Cloud Foundation Services domain, with a focus on CVM, Auto Scaling, load balancing, and the selection and configuration of core compute resources. |
Network Architecture | Included under “Cloud Foundation Services” | 8.33% | Separated from the original Cloud Foundation Services domain, with enhanced coverage of VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, network interconnection, and hybrid cloud network design. |
Storage Services | Included under “Cloud Foundation Services” | 8.33% | Separated from the original Cloud Foundation Services domain, covering object storage, block storage, file storage, backup, and lifecycle management. |
Database Services | Included under “Cloud Foundation Services” | 8.33% | Consolidates relational databases, NoSQL, caching, database high availability, and basic database selection into an independent knowledge area. |
Security Services | Part of the former “Cloud Security and MLPS” domain | 8.33% | Retains coverage of account permissions, network security, host protection, data encryption, log auditing, and compliance requirements, while strengthening hands-on cloud security practices. |
EdgeOne and Global Acceleration | Not independently covered in the previous version | 8.33% | Adds a new edge security and global acceleration module covering CDN, site acceleration, edge protection, rule engines, and cross-region access optimization. |
High Availability and Architecture Patterns | Part of the former “Cloud Architecture Design Overview” and “Advanced Cloud Technologies” domains | 8.33% | Consolidates high availability, disaster recovery, elastic scaling, microservices, distributed architecture, and common architecture patterns into an independent module. |
TCOP Observability Platform | Previously included as monitoring content under “Cloud Foundation Services” | 8.33% | Establishes monitoring, logging, alerting, distributed tracing, and unified operations as an independent module, with added TCOP platform practice. |
CKafka Message Queue | Previously included under “Advanced Cloud Technologies” | 8.33% | Establishes message queues and event-driven architecture as an independent module, focusing on CKafka, producer-consumer models, partitions, and reliability design. |
AI/ML Services | Not independently covered in the previous version | 8.33% | Adds AI/ML cloud service content covering model training, inference deployment, AI platforms, and typical industry applications. |
AI Productivity Tools and TokenHub | Not covered in the previous version | 8.33% | Adds a generative AI and developer productivity module covering CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy, TokenHub, and large language model API usage. |
Migration Services | Formerly covered under “Cloud Migration Services” | 8.37% | Retains migration assessment, 6R strategies, server and database migration, cutover, validation, and rollback, while adjusting the weighting to accommodate the new modules. |
2.Transition Period Arrangement
(1) Deadline for Previous Version Exam Scheduling
Scheduling for the previous version exam will close on September 17, 2026. If you need to take the previous version exam, please complete your scheduling before September 17, 2026.
(2) New Version Launch Date
The new version exam content will go live on September 18, 2026. Exam appointments made on or after September 18, 2026 will be based on the new version.
