OCI Architect Professional case studies
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The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional credential is Oracle's advanced, professional-level certification for cloud architects who design and operate solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It is aimed at experienced practitioners - typically engineers, consultants, and solution architects - who already work hands-on with OCI tenancy design, identity, virtual networking, compute fleets, and storage services, and who want independent validation of that depth. The OCI Architect Professional case studies are 5 cases and about 3,648 words.
1Federated engineering org with an over-broad tenancy policy
Northwind has an OCI tenancy with 14 compartments under the root: Prod-App, Prod-DB, Prod-Network, Shared, three NonProd stacks, Sandbox, and four project compartments. 420 engineers authenticate through Microsoft Entra ID and are synchronized by SCIM into one OCI identity domain.
789 words, about 4 min2Hub-and-spoke VCN with an acquired overlapping CIDR and FastConnect
Contoso runs a production VCN 10.0.0.0/16 in Frankfurt with web 10.0.1.0/24, app 10.0.2.0/24, and database 10.0.3.0/24 subnets. A hub VCN 10.10.0.0/16 holds shared services and attaches to on-premises 192.168.0.0/16 through a DRG and FastConnect.
690 words, about 3 min3Instance pool scale-out misses the SLA because of boot-time dependencies
An e-commerce team runs a stateless web tier on 8 VM.Standard.E4.Flex instances (4 OCPU, 32 GB) spread across two availability domains in a regional private subnet. An instance pool has min 6, max 40, CPU target 55%, and a load balancer health check of 10-second interval, 3-second timeout, unhealthy threshold 3.
769 words, about 4 min4Media archive with legal retention and cross-region recovery
MediaCo stores 480 TB of video masters and marketing clips in an Object Storage Standard bucket in us-ashburn-1. Versioning is enabled.
717 words, about 4 min5Active-passive multi-region failover with OCI DNS and RPC
A payments platform runs active-passive across Frankfurt (primary) and Amsterdam (standby). Primary VCN 10.20.0.0/16, standby 10.21.0.0/16.
683 words, about 3 min