OCI Architect Associate case studies
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The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Architect Associate credential is Oracle's foundational architecture certification for OCI. It is aimed at cloud engineers, solution architects, and administrators who design or operate workloads on Oracle Cloud and want to demonstrate that they can assemble identity, networking, compute, storage, and database services into a coherent, secure, well-governed architecture. The OCI Architect Associate case studies are 5 cases and about 3,397 words.
1Restoring Object Storage access and closing a database exposure in a three-tier VCN
A retail platform runs a three-tier workload in one VCN (10.20.0.0/16): a public web subnet (10.20.1.0/24), a private app subnet (10.20.2.0/24) and a private database subnet (10.20.3.0/24). Security lists are wide open - every subnet allows all protocols from 10.20.0.0/16 and 172.16.0.0/12.
687 words, about 3 min2Tiering a 400 TB media archive and rescuing a render farm that is at the volume IOPS ceiling
A media company keeps 400 TB of source footage and rendered masters in one Object Storage standard bucket. Access analytics show 11% of objects are read in a given month, nearly all within 45 days of upload; older objects are touched only when legal holds are reviewed.
672 words, about 3 min3Choosing an Autonomous Database target when the DBAs depend on OS-level automation
A payments company runs Oracle Database 19c on a two-node RAC VM DB System with a physical standby in a second availability domain. Average load is 30% but quadruples for the four days around quarter close, when nightly batch also runs.
696 words, about 3 min4Making a tenancy-wide cost ceiling stick across five subsidiaries
A holding company runs one OCI tenancy with five subsidiaries. Monthly spend is USD 180,000 and growing 20% per quarter.
623 words, about 3 min5Pilot-light DR for a 120-VM booking engine over a 1 Gbps FastConnect
A regional airline runs a booking engine across 120 on-premises VMs: 12 Oracle databases, a Java application tier and shared middleware. A 1 Gbps FastConnect connects the main data center to an OCI region about 400 km away, and a second OCI region is available 1,200 km away.
719 words, about 4 min