OCI Developer Professional study plan

Map the OCI Developer Professional exam domains to your existing skills and list the three weakest areas

Create a free-tier OCI tenancy and configure the CLI profile, API signing key, and compartment structure you will reuse all plan

Provision a VCN with public and private subnets, an internet gateway, and a service gateway using both the Console and Terraform

Write and run a hello-world function in OCI Functions triggered by an HTTP endpoint

Document your tenancy OCIDs, region, and naming conventions in a personal runbook

Deploy an Always Free compute instance and connect over SSH using a bastion or public IP

Build a container image, push it to OCIR, and run it on Container Instances or OKE

Configure an instance principal policy so code on the instance can call Object Storage without user credentials

Store and retrieve a secret in OCI Vault from a script running on the instance

Compare instance principals, resource principals, and user principals and write down when each applies

Create a bucket, upload objects with the CLI and SDK, and generate a pre-authenticated request

Implement multipart upload and lifecycle rules for a bucket using the Python or Java SDK

Write a function that reacts to an Object Storage event and writes a result to another bucket

Configure a budget alert and a service limit check for the resources you created

Review OCI IAM policy syntax and write policies that scope access by compartment and resource type

Model a small application schema in Autonomous Database and connect from a local client using a wallet

Use the SDK to run parameterized queries and handle connection pooling from an application

Create and invoke an API Gateway route that fronts your function with an authorizer

Add structured logging and metrics to your service and query them in Logging and Monitoring

Run a load test against the API Gateway endpoint and record latency and error rates

Create a DevOps project with a build pipeline that runs tests and pushes an artifact

Add a deployment pipeline that rolls out to OKE or Container Instances with a manual approval stage

Configure a blue-green or rolling deployment strategy and trigger a rollback

Store pipeline secrets in Vault and reference them from build stages

Integrate code review checks and branch protection with the pipeline trigger

Deploy a two-node OKE cluster and run a workload with a load balancer service

Configure horizontal pod autoscaling and verify scaling under synthetic load

Set up OCI Monitoring alarms that notify on error rate and latency thresholds

Enable and interpret tracing or APM data for a request path across gateway, function, and database

Write a runbook for diagnosing a failing deployment using logs, metrics, and events

Convert your manual Console steps into Terraform modules with remote state in Object Storage

Use OCI Resource Manager to apply a stack from the console and from the CLI

Audit your tenancy for unused resources and tear down anything outside the free tier

Review the exam domain objectives and list any objective you cannot yet demonstrate

Complete a timed 60-question practice set and tag each miss by objective

Close every gap from the week-7 report by rebuilding the weakest service from scratch without notes

Re-run two full timed practice sets and target 85 percent or better on each

Explain aloud, in under two minutes each, IAM policy evaluation, function invocation models, and pipeline stages

Verify exam logistics: registration, testing environment, ID requirements, and time limits

Archive your repo, runbooks, and notes into a single study portfolio