H13-811_V3.5 Questions and Answers

The statement is TRUE . Huawei Cloud Image Management Service supports creating private images from external image files, with OBS serving as the staging storage location for those files. The documented workflow is to prepare the source image, upload the image file to an appropriate OBS bucket, and then register or import that file through IMS as a private image.

Huawei's IMS documentation explicitly describes the scenario as registering an image file that has been uploaded to an OBS bucket as a private image . During image creation, the administrator selects Import Image or Image File as the source, selects the OBS bucket containing the prepared file, and then selects the required file.

Supported formats and detailed constraints depend on the image type and import method. For example, standard system-disk image imports and optimized fast-import workflows have specific requirements concerning image formats, file size, operating system, and bucket storage class. However, these restrictions do not change the fundamental integration represented in the question.

OBS therefore provides object storage for the source image file, while IMS performs image registration and lifecycle management. The resulting private image can subsequently be used to provision identically configured ECS instances.

Reference topics: Image Management Service; Creating Private Images; Importing Image Files; OBS and IMS Integration.

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The statement is false because its description of infrastructure ownership does not correctly characterize a hybrid cloud. A hybrid cloud combines different cloud environments—most commonly private cloud and public cloud —and enables workloads, applications, or data to be distributed between them according to security, capacity, latency, compliance, or business requirements.

Huawei Cloud describes hybrid cloud as a blend of private and public cloud environments. The private portion may be dedicated to a particular customer and may host confidential or sensitive workloads, while public cloud resources are delivered through infrastructure operated by a cloud service provider. Consequently, the combined infrastructure is not inherently owned and operated by a single organization .

This ownership distinction separates hybrid cloud from a purely private-cloud model. A private cloud can be dedicated to a single organization, whereas hybrid architecture deliberately combines environments that may have different infrastructure ownership and operating responsibility.

The statement correctly recognizes that hybrid cloud is flexible and that workloads can use different cloud environments, but because it makes an absolute and incorrect assertion about single-organization ownership, the entire statement must be evaluated as FALSE .

Reference topics: Cloud Deployment Models; Public Cloud; Private Cloud; Hybrid Cloud; CloudPond Service Overview.

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1 → C

2 → A

3 → D

4 → B

Each fault maps to a specific Huawei Cloud VPC control. A VPC cannot be deleted while dependent resources such as a VPC peering connection still use it, so scenario 1 maps to C. Huawei Cloud explicitly lists VPC peering connections among resources that must be removed before VPC deletion.

For scenario 2, merely binding an EIP does not override security-group filtering. If the relevant inbound security-group rule does not permit traffic from the source IP address and required protocol/port, the ECS remains inaccessible externally; therefore it maps to A.

Scenario 3 maps to D. Huawei Cloud uses DHCP to allocate private addresses dynamically, and its troubleshooting guidance specifically instructs administrators to verify whether the subnet's DHCP function is enabled when an ECS cannot obtain a private IP address.

Scenario 4 maps to B. Huawei documentation explicitly identifies conflicting network ACL and security-group rules as a cause of security-group rules appearing ineffective. The network ACL can block traffic that the security group otherwise permits.

Reference topics: VPC Troubleshooting; Security Groups; Network ACLs; DHCP; VPC Peering Connections.

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1 → No configuration is required

2 → Configure a VPC peering connection

3 → Create a VPN

The mappings follow Huawei Cloud's VPC connectivity rules. ECS-C and ECS-D are deployed in the same VPC , so their private network traffic can use the VPC's internal routing directly. Provided the applicable security-group rules allow the traffic, no additional VPC interconnection mechanism is required.

ECS-A and ECS-B are in different VPCs but in the same CN North-Beijing4 region. Huawei Cloud VPC peering is specifically designed to connect two VPCs in the same region using private IP addresses. Huawei documentation states that VPC peering is region-scoped and enables resources in the two peered VPCs to communicate after the required routes are configured.

ECS-A and ECS-C are located in different regions. The HCIA V3.5 networking design uses VPN for this scenario. Huawei's official VPN documentation specifically describes establishing VPN gateways and VPN connections between two VPCs in different regions, providing an encrypted communication channel across the Internet.

Therefore, the required sequence is same VPC → no additional configuration; same-region different VPCs → peering; cross-region VPCs → VPN .

Reference topics: VPC Communication; VPC Peering; VPN; Intra-VPC Networking.

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Option A is incorrect because Huawei Cloud Auto Scaling is designed to automatically adjust ECS instances and bandwidth resources , not Bare Metal Server instances. Huawei's AS documentation defines an AS group as a collection of ECS instances and states that scaling actions add or remove ECS instances according to alarm, scheduled, or periodic policies. BMS provides dedicated physical compute and is provisioned through the BMS service rather than being dynamically created and destroyed by an ECS Auto Scaling group.

The other relationships are valid. Cloud Eye supports BMS operating-system monitoring after the Cloud Eye Agent is installed; the BMS reports detailed CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics to Cloud Eye. EVS is integrated with BMS and additional supported EVS data disks can be attached when more storage is required. IMS is likewise an integral BMS service: images can be used to create consistently configured BMSs and to reinstall or change their operating systems, reducing repetitive deployment work. Huawei's BMS architecture explicitly lists VPC, IMS, EVS, Cloud Eye, and backup services as integrations supporting BMS operation.

Reference topics: Bare Metal Server Architecture; BMS and Other Cloud Services; Auto Scaling; Cloud Eye; IMS; EVS.

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Option C cannot be the cause because the password used to log in to the ECS operating system has no requirement to match the database credential used by an RDS instance. ECS authentication and RDS database authentication are separate security domains. An application running on an ECS connects to RDS using the database endpoint, port, database username, and corresponding database password.

Option A can cause the failure. Huawei's RDS troubleshooting guidance requires appropriate security-group rules so that traffic to the database port is permitted.

Option B can also prevent communication. Huawei Cloud states that when an ECS and RDS DB instance are deployed in different VPCs, network connectivity must be established—for example through an appropriate VPC peering connection —or the resources must be placed in a mutually reachable network.

Option D can likewise cause connection failure. Huawei's official RDS troubleshooting process specifically instructs administrators to validate the connection address and port configuration and test connectivity to the RDS listening port. Examples include port 3306 for RDS for MySQL and 5432 for PostgreSQL.

The ECS's own login password is unrelated to these connectivity requirements; therefore C is correct.

Reference topics: RDS Database Connectivity; ECS-to-RDS Communication; Security Groups; VPC Peering; Database Ports.

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The supported notification methods represented in this question are SMS and email , so the correct selections are A and D .

Huawei Cloud CTS supports key event notification for significant operations. Administrators can identify operations that require immediate awareness and configure notification delivery through Simple Message Notification (SMN). When the configured key event occurs, CTS works with SMN to deliver the corresponding notification to subscribed recipients.

Huawei's official CTS documentation specifically states that SMN can send key-event messages to users' mobile phones or email addresses . A notification sent to a mobile phone in this context corresponds to SMS messaging. Email subscriptions similarly deliver the notification to the registered email endpoint.

This mechanism provides proactive visibility into sensitive cloud operations rather than requiring administrators to continually query CTS records. Typical use cases include monitoring resource deletion, security configuration changes, permission-related operations, or other high-risk administrative actions.

Neither WeChat nor a conventional phone call is identified by Huawei CTS as one of the notification methods in this key-event mechanism. Those options therefore do not satisfy the documented CTS notification workflow.

Reference topics: CTS Key Event Notification; Simple Message Notification; Operation Auditing; O & M Notifications.

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Option B is incorrect . Huawei Cloud explicitly requires subnet CIDR blocks within the same VPC to be unique and not overlap . Allowing overlapping subnets would make local route selection ambiguous and create address conflicts inside the VPC. Huawei's subnet definition therefore states that subnets in a VPC cannot overlap with each other.

Option A is correct for subnet planning: Huawei advises users to plan subnet address ranges carefully because a subnet's CIDR block cannot be changed after creation. This is why future capacity requirements should be considered before allocating subnet prefixes.

Option C is also consistent with Huawei's VPC definition. A subnet represents a unique CIDR block containing an IP address range inside a VPC, and VPC resources requiring private networking are deployed into these subnets. Option D is correct because the subnet CIDR must fall within the VPC's address range. Huawei's network-planning guidance explicitly states that the subnet CIDR block must be within the VPC CIDR block and that subnet CIDR blocks in the VPC must be unique.

Thus, the only incorrect planning statement is B .

Reference topics: VPC and Subnet Planning; CIDR Blocks; Subnet Addressing; VPC Network Design.

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Options B, C, and D identify problems that CDN architecture is designed to mitigate. Huawei defines CDN as an intelligent virtual network built on Internet infrastructure that caches origin content on geographically distributed points of presence close to users. This substantially shortens the network path between users and frequently requested resources.

Consequently, CDN improves download speed because users can retrieve cached files from a nearby edge PoP rather than repeatedly crossing long-distance networks to the origin server. It also addresses slow website access by accelerating static content delivery, reducing latency, and improving site response and availability. Huawei specifically states that CDN breaks through bottlenecks associated with limited bandwidth, high access traffic, and uneven network-node distribution.

Caching popular content at edge nodes also reduces repeated traffic flowing through core and backbone networks. This alleviates bandwidth pressure on both the origin infrastructure and long-distance network paths.

Option A is not a CDN problem statement. CDN commonly reduces origin-server load , meaning utilization of origin resources may decrease rather than fixing a problem described as “low server utilization.” Its purpose is acceleration and traffic offloading, not increasing server utilization.

Therefore, B, C, and D are correct.

Reference topics: Content Delivery Network; Edge Caching; Website Acceleration; Download Acceleration; Origin Traffic Reduction.

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All four operations are supported management actions for Huawei Cloud RDS instances, subject to the applicable database engine, instance type, current status, and other service constraints.

Changing the failover priority is supported for primary/standby RDS deployments. Huawei allows administrators to prioritize either Reliability , which emphasizes data consistency, or Availability , which emphasizes service continuity during failover.

Deleting a DB instance is a standard lifecycle-management operation available to appropriately authorized users. Huawei's RDS permission model includes the rds:instance:delete action for this purpose.

Scaling up storage space is likewise an established RDS modification operation. Administrators can increase allocated storage when database capacity requirements grow, and supported database engines can also provide storage autoscaling options.

Finally, rebooting a DB instance is a supported administrative action used when configuration changes, troubleshooting, or other operational circumstances require an instance restart. Huawei's CTS integration explicitly identifies both scaling storage and restarting an instance as auditable RDS operations.

Huawei's RDS API catalog lists deleting, scaling storage, rebooting, and changing failover priority as supported instance-management operations.

Reference topics: RDS Instance Management; Failover Priority; Storage Scaling; DB Instance Reboot; DB Instance Deletion.

Statements B and D are correct. Huawei Cloud CBR architecture consists fundamentally of backups, vaults, and policies. A vault is the storage container used by CBR for backup data. Huawei documentation explicitly states that CBR stores backups in vaults and that different resource categories are associated with appropriate vault types, such as server backup vaults and disk backup vaults.

Statement B is also directly supported. Huawei categorizes CBR policies into backup policies and replication policies. A backup policy automatically runs backup operations according to configured schedules and retention parameters, while a replication policy periodically replicates eligible backup data to another vault or region.

Statement A is incorrect because CBR is specifically designed to automate protection through policies; regular backups do not normally need to depend on repeated manual execution. Huawei advises using backup policies for scheduled protection.

Statement C is too absolute. CBR substantially improves recoverability against accidental deletion, malware, software failures, and hardware faults, but no backup architecture legitimately guarantees that data can never be lost under every conceivable condition.

Therefore, B and D are the verified statements.

Reference topics: CBR Architecture; Vault Management; Backup Policies; Replication Policies.

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Option A is correct . Huawei Cloud Elastic Load Balance provides several traffic-distribution algorithms, including weighted round robin, weighted least connections, and source IP hash for shared load balancers. When backend servers have equal weights under weighted round robin, they receive an equal proportion of requests, providing the even traffic distribution described in the question.

Auto Scaling and ELB are explicitly integrated. When an AS group is associated with a load balancer, Huawei Cloud automatically associates newly added ECS instances with the load balancer and removes the association when instances leave the AS group. Therefore, option C is false; administrators do not need to manually register each dynamically created instance one by one.

Option B is incorrect in this context because the load balancer and its AS resources operate within the applicable regional/VPC deployment architecture; a standard shared ELB is not a mechanism for arbitrary cross-region backend distribution. Option D is also false because detecting unhealthy instances depends upon an enabled health-check mechanism. Disabling health checking removes the basis for making that health determination.

Reference topics: Elastic Load Balance; Auto Scaling and ELB Integration; Backend Servers; Load Balancing Algorithms.

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Option D is incorrect because Huawei Cloud security-group rules are not limited to literal IP addresses as the source or destination. A security group itself can be referenced in a rule. Huawei's default security group demonstrates this directly: its inbound rule uses the default security group as the source , allowing instances belonging to that security group to communicate with one another. Therefore, another security group can form part of an access-control rule definition.

The other statements reflect the HCIA V3.5 security-group model. Huawei Cloud automatically provides a default security group when required. Its default behavior permits outbound traffic, blocks unsolicited external inbound traffic, and permits communications between instances belonging to the same default group. Option A should therefore be understood in the curriculum's simplified model of allowing outbound and denying external inbound traffic.

Options B and C correctly describe the purpose of security groups. They provide common access-control policies for ECS instances with similar security requirements. Once inbound or outbound rules are configured on the group, those rules govern the instances associated with that group rather than requiring each ECS to be configured independently.

Reference topics: Security Groups; Security Group Sources and Destinations; Default Security Group; ECS Access Control.

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