Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate

What you will learn

1. OCI Introduction

   • Get an overview of OCI.
   • Dive into OCI architecture.

2. Oracle Cloud Free Tier Account

   • Sign up for an Oracle Cloud free tier account.
   • Walk through the OCI Console.

3. Identity and Access Management (IAM)

   • Learn about IAM, AuthN, and AuthZ.
   • Understand compartments, policies, and network services.
   • Explore tag-based access control and dynamic groups.

4. Networking: Virtual Cloud Network

   • Learn about VCN, security lists, and NSG.
   • Understand concepts like Bastion and gateways (internet, service, and NAT).
   • Explore route tables.

5. Networking: Connectivity

   • Learn about connectivity options.
   • Understand the concept of dynamic routing gateway.
   • Understand the concept of remote peering connection.
   • Explore site-to-site VPN, VPN Connect, and FastConnect.

6. Networking: Load Balancer

   • Get introduced to load balancers.
   • Dive into the concepts of public and private load balancers.
   • Become versed in load balancer policies and health checks.
   • Learn about Network Load Balancing.

7. Networking: DNS Management

   • Learn about OCI DNS Management.
   • Undersatand public DNS and private DNS zones.
   • Grasp traffic management.

8. Networking: Other Services

   • Explore the Inter-region Latency dashboard.
   • Learn about the Network Visualizer tool.
   • Explore IPv6 with Oracle.
   • Build knowledge about BYOIP.
   • Understand VCN flow logs.

9. Compute

   • Get an overview of compute services.
   • Learn to use the platform and custom images.
   • Understand the difference between bare metal, VM, and dedicated hosts.
   • Explore dedicated VM hosts.
   • Understand vertical and autoscaling in terms of computing.
   • Explore the OS Management Service.
   • Learn about shielded instances.

10. Object Storage

    • Learn about object storage resources and characteristics.
    • Learn about managing buckets and objects.
    • Explore object storage tiers and auto-tiering.
    • Understand object lifecycle management.
    • Grasp object storage replication.
    • Learn about object storage retention rules and logging.
    • Understand securing object storage.

11. Block Storage

    • Get an overview of block volume and boot volume.
    • Explore block volume performance, backups, and clones.
    • Understand cross region replication.
    • Understand volume groups and encryption.

12. File Storage

    • Dive into file storage concepts and NFS export options.
    • Understand file system paths, snapshots, and cloning.
    • Learn about in-transit encryption.
    • Learn about file storage security.
    • Understand file system usage and metering.

13. Database

    • Get introduced to OCI database services.
    • Dive into DB systems: provisioning, operations, and maintenance.
    • Explore autonomous database provisioning and administration.
    • Learn about monitoring database services.
    • Learn about external database services.
    • Understand database migration.

14. Security

    • Get introduced to security services.
    • Explore Cloud Guard (concepts, problems, recipes, and notifications).
    • Dive into security zones and Security Advisor.
    • Understand vaults, keys, and secrets.

15. Observability and Management Introduction

    • Get introduced to observability.

16. Observability and Management: Monitoring

    • Learn key concepts about monitoring services.
    • Learn about notification services, service metrics, and alarms.
    • Understand building queries and managing alarms.

17. Observability and Management: Logging

    • Get an overview of Oracle's logging service.
    • Study custom logs.
    • Access, search, and explore logs.
    • Learn about service connectors.

18. Prepare for OCI Architect Associate Certification

    • Prep for the certification.
    • Practice sample exam questions.