OCI Foundations Associate case studies
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The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate credential is an entry-level certification offered through Oracle University and Oracle Certification. It is designed for learners who are new to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - students, career changers, and technical or non-technical professionals - who want a recognized way to demonstrate baseline familiarity with Oracle's cloud platform. The OCI Foundations Associate case studies are 5 cases and about 3,815 words.
1Right-Sizing a Lift-and-Shift Fleet (OCPU vs vCPU and a Bursty Batch Host)
Northline Logistics is lift-and-shifting 12 application VMs from a colocation cage into the Frankfurt region. On-premises monitoring shows every application server peaking at 15% CPU on 16 vCPUs, while one nightly batch host sits at 90% for roughly two hours and idles the rest of the day.
644 words, about 3 min2Overlapping CIDRs, Private Object Storage Access and a Failed Security Review
Halcyon Health runs a production VCN (10.0.0.0/16) in the Ashburn region and has just acquired a clinic group whose OCI tenancy uses the same 10.0.0.0/16 range but cannot be changed for nine months because of a vendor contract. On-premises is 192.168.0.0/16 and already connects to production by FastConnect through a DRG.
791 words, about 4 min3Removing a Baked-In API Key Without Breaking a Running Fleet
Vantage Retail has four compartments - prod, stage, shared-data and sandbox - in a single tenancy. Forty compute instances in prod read objects from a bucket in shared-data and upload logs to a bucket there as well.
816 words, about 4 min4Choosing Between Autonomous and a VM DB System for a Vendor-Constrained Estate
Metro Claims runs a 2 TB claims-processing application that is transactional during the day and drives a heavy reporting extract between 01:00 and 03:00. The vendor contract requires a named DBA to patch the database host on the vendor's schedule and to install a host-level monitoring agent; the current estate runs Oracle Database 19c with a standby in a second data centre.
772 words, about 4 min5Commitment Spend, Showback and Whether to Buy Premier Support
Corvus Media signed a one-year Universal Credits commitment of USD 240,000 for OCI. Actual consumption has ranged from USD 12,000 to USD 31,000 a month, driven partly by an untagged GPU proof of concept in a sandbox compartment that a data-science team keeps recreating after the platform team shuts it down.
792 words, about 4 min