OCI Operations Associate study guide
OCI Operations Associate · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Operations Associate credential is an Oracle certification exam aimed at cloud operations professionals. It is intended for administrators, support engineers, and DevOps practitioners who deploy, monitor, secure, and manage workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The exam covers four domains: OCI Operations; Compute and Networking Operations; Storage, Database, and Security Operations; and Monitoring, Automation, and Cost Management. These domains test practical skills such as provisioning and managing compute instances and virtual cloud networks, administering block volume and object storage, operating database services, applying identity and access management policies, configuring monitoring and alarms, automating tasks, and managing costs. Topics on this exam: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations, Compute and Networking Operations, Storage, Database, and Security Operations, and Monitoring, Automation, and Cost Management. The OCI Operations Associate study guide has 4 sections and about 1,443 words.
01Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations
This domain tests how you structure and govern an OCI tenancy: compartments, IAM policies, tagging, regions, and operational tooling for day-to-day administration. A tenancy is the root compartment. Every resource belongs to exactly one compartment, and compartments can nest. A policy written at a compartment applies to that compartment and its children; in tenancy targets the root and everything under it.
345 words, about 2 min02Compute and Networking Operations
This domain tests instance lifecycle and VCN design: shapes, instance pools, autoscaling, subnets, gateways, route tables, and security rules. Flexible shapes let you set OCPUs and memory independently. Burstable shapes are cheaper but cap baseline CPU with burst credits. Autoscaling uses an instance pool plus a policy (CPU utilization or schedule) and scales between minimum and maximum sizes.
376 words, about 2 min03Storage, Database, and Security Operations
This domain covers block and object storage, database services, and the security controls that protect data and keys. Block volumes are AD-specific and offer performance tiers: Lower Cost, Balanced, Higher Performance, and Ultra High Performance. Auto-tune adjusts performance to workload; volume performance units (VPUs) set the tier. Volume backups are incremental, stored in Object Storage, and can be copied across regions.
354 words, about 2 min04Monitoring, Automation, and Cost Management
This domain tests how you observe resources, automate operations, and control spend. Monitoring collects metrics per resource and fires alarms when a metric crosses a threshold for a sustained period. Alarms publish to a notification topic; users must subscribe (email, SMS, or webhook) to receive alerts. Logging stores logs in log groups; Service Connector Hub moves logs or events to targets such as Object Storage or Functions.
368 words, about 2 min