OCI Foundations Associate study guide
OCI Foundations Associate · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
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 study guide has 6 sections and about 2,280 words.
01Cloud Concepts
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute, storage, networking and database capacity over a network with pay-for-use pricing. The NIST definition names five essential characteristics you should be able to recognize: on-demand self-service (no human ticket required), broad network access, resource pooling (multi-tenancy), rapid elasticity, and measured service (metering, which is what makes pay-per-use possible).
339 words, about 2 min02Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OCI is organized physically as realm, region, availability domain (AD) and fault domain. A region is a geographic area containing one or more ADs; ADs are isolated, low-latency-connected data centers within a region; fault domains group independent hardware inside an AD.
326 words, about 2 min03Core Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Services (Compute, Storage, Networking)
Compute offers virtual machines, bare metal servers and dedicated hosts, in shapes: standard (general purpose), dense I/O, GPU and HPC. Flexible shapes let you choose OCPUs and memory independently.
333 words, about 2 min04Database Services
Autonomous Database is self-driving (automatic tuning, scaling and patching), self-securing (encryption by default, security patches) and self-repairing (automated backups, automatic failover in dedicated deployments). Workloads include Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) for OLTP and Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) for analytics, plus JSON and APEX options; you pick a workload when provisioning.
302 words, about 2 min05Security, Identity and Access Management
Oracle secures the physical facilities, hardware, network fabric and the hypervisor layer. You secure what you put on top: identities, policies, data classification, guest OS patching, network rules and application configuration.
647 words, about 3 min06Pricing, Billing and Support
OCI is consumption-based. Universal Credits are a committed spend that can be applied flexibly across eligible services, purchased as pay-as-you-go, monthly flex, or an annual commitment that typically carries a discount.
333 words, about 2 min