OCI GenAI Pro study guide
OCI GenAI Pro · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The OCI GenAI Pro credential is presented here as a professional-level certification for practitioners who design, build, and operate generative AI solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It suits cloud architects, AI/ML engineers, application developers, and technical consultants who already understand OCI fundamentals and want to demonstrate depth in model selection, inference tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and governance of production AI workloads. The OCI GenAI Pro study guide has 4 sections and about 1,430 words.
01Generative AI Fundamentals and the OCI Generative AI Service
This domain tests whether you can explain how large language models (LLMs) behave and map that behavior onto the OCI Generative AI service's building blocks: the playground, on-demand inference, dedicated AI clusters, endpoints, and the model catalog. Expect terminology questions (tokens, context window, embeddings, hallucination) plus service-shape questions about what runs on shared versus dedicated infrastructure.
367 words, about 2 min02Model Selection, Inference, and Customization
This domain tests task-to-model fit, inference parameter control, and the three OCI fine-tuning paths. Questions typically describe a workload (summarization, RAG answer synthesis, classification, semantic search) and ask for the model family, parameter settings, or customization method - including the infrastructure consequence.
347 words, about 2 min03Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Vector Search
This domain tests the RAG pipeline end to end and the OCI stores that implement retrieval. You should be able to choose between OCI Generative AI Agents (managed RAG), Oracle Database 23ai AI Vector Search, and OCI Search with OpenSearch, and explain chunking, embeddings, top-k retrieval, reranking, and grounding.
355 words, about 2 min04Security, Governance, and Solution Architecture
This domain tests whether you can place OCI Generative AI inside a governed, private architecture: IAM least privilege, network isolation, encryption, audit, quotas, and operational controls. Questions often present a regulated workload and ask which control closes a specific gap.
361 words, about 2 min