OCI Architect Professional study guide
OCI Architect Professional · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
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. Because the official Oracle University certification page could not be retrieved when this guide was assembled (the site returned an access error and displayed a maintenance notice), this page does not publish exam logistics such as question count, time limit, passing score, fee, delivery format, retake rules, or validity period. Those details are deliberately left blank rather than estimated, and the domain breakdown shown here is a provisional study scaffold, not an official weighting. Topics on this exam: Identity and Access Management, Networking, Compute, and Storage. The OCI Architect Professional study guide has 4 sections and about 1,457 words.
01Identity and Access Management
This domain tests least-privilege design across a tenancy: compartments, groups, policies, dynamic groups, and federation. Expect policy-evaluation questions and distinctions among user, instance, and resource principals.
378 words, about 2 min02Networking
This domain tests VCN design: subnet tiers, gateways, route tables, security rules, and peering/transit. Most questions ask which path a packet takes and which control must allow it.
376 words, about 2 min03Compute
This domain tests shape selection, instance lifecycle, pooled deployments, and secure API access from instances. Expect questions that combine compute with IAM and networking.
333 words, about 2 min04Storage
This domain tests service selection and data-protection controls across Object Storage, Block Volume, and File Storage. Know which service supports shared POSIX access, which supports HTTP object access, and which behaves like a virtual disk.
370 words, about 2 min