OCI Data Science Pro study guide

OCI Data Science Pro · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Data Science Professional credential, exam code 1Z0-117, is Oracle's professional-level certification for practitioners who build and operate machine learning workloads on OCI. It targets data scientists, ML engineers, and platform engineers who already work with OCI Data Science and want formal recognition of their ability to design projects, run training at scale, and keep models healthy in production. The OCI Data Science Pro study guide has 4 sections and about 1,442 words.

Data Science Overview and OCI Data Science Concepts

This domain tests whether you can place OCI Data Science in the OCI resource model and choose the right managed resource for each stage of the ML lifecycle. Expect questions on compartments, IAM, regional behavior, projects, notebook sessions, jobs, model catalog, deployments, and pipelines - and on what the service manages versus what you manage.

385 words, about 2 min 02

Data Science Projects, Notebook Sessions, and Environments

This domain tests the working environment: how projects scope resources, how notebook sessions are shaped and networked, and how conda environments make work reproducible across notebooks and jobs. A notebook session is a managed compute instance with block storage, a shape, a subnet, and an optional private endpoint.

351 words, about 2 min 03

Model Training, Jobs, and Model Catalog/Deployment

This domain tests the batch-to-endpoint path: defining jobs, running and scheduling them, registering artifacts, and deploying a model that can be called securely. A job defines the script, conda environment, shape, block storage, subnet, command-line arguments, environment variables, and output URI.

354 words, about 2 min 04

Data Access, Pipelines, and MLOps Operations

This domain tests connectivity, orchestration, and operating models after the first deployment: how notebooks and jobs reach data, how pipelines chain steps, and how teams retrain, monitor, and audit. Object Storage is addressed by URI ( oci://bucket@namespace/path ) and requires IAM plus a network path.

352 words, about 2 min