IBM Certified Professional Architect – Cloud v5

IBM Certified Professional Architect – Cloud v5 is one of Architect related certifications similar to AWS and Google and as it says, we need to be ready to get information on IBM Cloud and certify ourselves as an Architect.

Some of the important links that are required before preparing for the exam are,

1. Certification Overview page here –> IBM Certified Professional Architect – Cloud v5

2. Certification Learning path here –> IBM Cloud Professional Architect – Training

Overview of Professional Architect Certification

These two links are the first things that we need to check on and get more information as we proceed to understand what’s in store for IBM Certified Professional Architect.

As mentioned on the IBM Certification page, please find the main details that need our attention,

Exam Code: Exam C1000-118: IBM Cloud Professional Architect v5 Number of questions: 61
Number of questions to pass: 39
Time allowed: 90 minutes

Topics covered along with percentages are,

At the right-hand side of the page, we can see three links,

Assessment – Clicking on this link will take you to Pearson Vue page where you can schedule for giving an Assessment of the exam to get to know your proficiency levels of knowing IBM Cloud.

NOTE: When you give this Assessment exam, it will just exit and doesn’t show any of the questions and acts similar to the main Certification exam, where it will report the areas that require to enhance your knowledge.

Sample Test – Contains sample set of questions that look alike in the main exam

Study Guide PDF – Gives detailed information about the topics that we need to prepare and provides more sub-tasks that require us to go through for the exam.

As mentioned in the above screenshot, each section in the objective is divided into subsections and each subsection contains more content to go through further. These details are available in the Study Guide PDF.

Images below for reference on each subsection content. I will go through each subsection content in further blogs and explain more about each section in detail.

Training Path

This is the learning path for the exam IBM Cloud Professional Architect – Training and it covers all the Objectives of the exam.

Badge details for the exam as given on Credly site here –> IBM Certified Professional Architect – Cloud v5 – Credly