OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) Foundations Certification Exam
Block Volume tiers
- Basic (for throughput intensive with large sequential I/O) - Balanced (for most workloads including random I/O - boot disks) - Higher Performance (most demanding I/O performance such as large DB)
Which DB option is designed for Data Warehousing?
Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW)
Which DB option is designed for oltp workloads?
Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP)
RMAN (recovery manager)
Back up and recovery manager supplied for Oracle databases
Data transfer costs
Between ADs, instances or via FastConnect is free. Ingress from Internet or regions is free Egress to internet or regions is charged.
A customer wants to use OCI for storing application backups which can be stored based on business needs. What OCI storage service can be used to meet the requirement?
Block Volume
A customer wants to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) storing application backups which can be stored for months, but retrieved immediately based on business needs. Which OCI storage service can be used to meet this requirement?
Block Volume
BYOL
Bring your own license
Which Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service can send you an alert when you might exceed your spending threshold?
Budgets
vertical scaling (scale up or scale down)
Change the shape of an instance (add or remove resources)
Which feature allows you to logically group and isolate your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources?
Compartments
According to the Shared security model, which are a customer's responsibilities in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?
Customer data Object Storage data durability
What does Oracle's Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) attestation of compliance provide to customers?
Customers can use these services for workloads that store, process, or transmit cardholder data.
How frequently are OCI usage reports generated?
Daily
Block Storage
Data stored on a device in fixed sizes and access by the OS. No high level metadata is stored and is commonly deployed in SAN
A company has developed an eCommerce web application in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What should they do to ensure that the application has the highest level of resilience?
Deploy the application across multiple Regions and Availability Domains.
Instance Shape
Determines the CPU, Memory, Disk size, network bandwidth and VNICS associated with a VM.
Bare Metal (BM)
Direct hardware access (single tenant server)
DRG
Dynamic Routing Gateway: Virtual router that provides a path for private traffic between the VCN and destinations other than the internet - (on prem)
Which statement accurately describes an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Region?
Each Availability Domain has three Fault Domains.
Autoscaling
Enable large scale deployment of VMs from a single gold image with automatic configuration.
Which capability can be used to protect against unexpected hardware or power supply failures within an availability domain?
Fault Domains
Which feature is NOT a component of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Identity and Access management service?
Federation
FSS
File Storage Service
Oracle Kubernetes Engine
Fully managed, scalable, and highly available service used to deploy containerized applications in OCI
Fault Domains (FD)
Grouping of hardware and infrastructure within an Availability Domain.
Which OCI Identity and access management capability helps you to organize multiple users into teams?
Groups
File Storage
Hierarchical collection of documents organized into named directories (local file systems) data is encrypted at rest and in transit
OCI Security Services
IAM Data protection OS and workload management Infrastructure Protection
IAM
Identity and Access Management
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service You Manage: Applications Data Runtime Middleware Operating System Delivered as a service Virtualization Servers Storage Networking
IOPS
Input/output operations per second
You are setting up a POC and need to quickly establish a secure connection between and on-prem DC and OCI. Which OCI service should you implement?
Internet Gateway
Which should you use to distribute Incoming traffic between a set of web servers?
Load Balancers
Region
Localized Geographic area
What gateway can be used to provide internet access to an OCI compute instance on a private subnet?
NAT Gateway
A new customer has logged into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as an administrator for the first time. The admin would like to deploy infrastructure. What is the first step they must take in order to accomplish this task?
Navigate to the desired region and begin creating resources.
NSG
Network Security Group - controls access to a VNIC
NVMe
Non-Volatile Memory Express
What characteristics are defined by an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute shape?
Number of OCPU, amount of RAM, bandwidth
What is the lowest pricing for storage (per GB)
OCI Archive storage
A customer wants a dedicated connection with minimal network latency from their on-prem data center to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Which service should they choose?
OCI FastConnect
You are required to host several files in a location that can be publicly accessible from anywhere in the world. Which Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service should you use?
OCI Object Storage
What is the key benefit of using OCI?
OCI offers consistent performance with a predictable pricing model
What is the billing metric for compute?
OCPU or OGPU
A banking platform has been re-designed to a microservices based architecture using Docker containers for deployment. What is the service that can deploy the containers on OCI?
OKE
What is the most cost-effective OCI Service
Object Storage (Standard)
A customer is looking to migrate their old database backups from their on-premises data center to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Which OCI service is the most cost-effective?
Object Storage (standard)
Availability Domain (AD)
One or more fault-tolerant, isolated data centers within a region.
OLTP
Online Transaction Processing
What do the terms OpEx and CapEx refer to?
OpEx refers lo Operational Expenditure and CapEx refers to Capital Expenditure
What service is NOT available as part of Oracle Cloud Free Tier?
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Exadata DB Systems
Which Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service can be used to protect sensitive and regulated data in OCI database services?
Oracle Data Safe
Which OCI service allows you to run code without provisioning any underlying infrastructure resources?
Oracle Functions
Which Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service is best suited for running serverless apps?
Oracle Functions
Pricing models
PYG - pay as you go Monthly flex (universal credits) BYOL
PaaS
Platform as a Service You Manage: Applications Data Delivered as a service: Runtime Middleware Operating System Virtualization Servers Storage Networking
What does OCI Fault domain provide?
Protect against unexpected hardware or power failures Protect against planned hardware maintenance
Public LB
Public load balancer. 2 load balancers residing in different ADs, and different subnets. One is primary, the other secondary.
Which DB option provides Managed High Availability
RAC
RAC
Real Application Clusters
RPO
Recovery Point Objective
RTO
Recovery Time Objective
Which is NOT covered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Service Level Agreement (SLA)?
Reliability
You want to migrate mission-critical Oracle E-Biz application to OCI with full control and access to the underlying infrastructure. What is the option that meets this requirement?
Replace E-biz with an Oracle SaaS application
Which pricing model is NOT supported by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
Reserved Infrastructure
Which Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service leverages Terraform to configure infrastructure as code?
Resource Manager
What are three methods you can use to create or modify OCI resources?
Rest APIs OCI Console CLI
Dedicated VM Hosts (DVH)
Run your VM instances on dedicated bare metal servers (single-tenant VMs)
Oracle cloud Infrastructure is compliant with which three industry standards?
SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 attestations, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), ISO 27001:2013 certification
Which is a key benefit of using oracle cloud infrastructure autonomous data warehouse?
Scale both CPU and Storage without downtime
Which kind of scaling is supported by virtual machines in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute service?
Scaling up or down, and scaling in or out
SL
Security List - determines traffic in and out of a subnet
What is a key benefit of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Virtual Machine DB Systems?
Support for RAC DB systems
local NVMe
Temporary storage attached to compute instance. Used for applications that require high performance local storage such as transactional DB. It will survive a reboot.
VCN Peering
The process of connecting multiple VCNs. Local peering connects VCNs in the same region, remote peering connects VCNs in different regions
What CANNOT be used with My Oracle Support (MOS)?
Troubleshoot your resources in an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Free Trial account
You have a mission-critical application which requires to be globally available at all times. Which deployment strategy should you adopt?
Use multiple Fault Domains in any Availability Domain in multiple Regions.
Which is NOT required to register and log support requests in My Oracle Support (MOS)?
Your account password
NAT Gateway
allows outbound connection to the internet but blocks inbound connections initiated from the internet (used for patches and updates)
principal
an IAM entity that is allowed to interact with OCI resources
Which two should be considered when designing a fault-tolerant solution in Oracle Cloud lnfrastructure (OCI)?
ensuring your solution components are distributed across OCI Fault Domains using multiple OCI Availability Domains (AD), where available, to deploy your solution
Autonomous Database
fully managed DB service
Container
includes the application and its dependencies. They share hardware and OS.
Private LB
private load balancer. 2 load balancers residing in the same AD and subnet.
Internet Gateway
provides path for network traffic between your VCN and the internet
Functions
small, powerful blocks of code that generally do a simple thing and are stored as docker images.
Block Volume Service
storage for compute instances. That is either for Boot or data disks. The service lets you store data independently of the lifespan of compute instances. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit
Compartment
A collection of related resources.
virtual machine (VM)
A hypervisor to virtualize underlying bare metal server into smaller VMs (multi-tenant VMs)
horizontal scaling (scale out or scale in)
Add or remove instances
Object Storage
All data stored in a 'bucket' and is managed as objects. Objects are stored in a single flat structure. Commonly used for Content repository, log data or archival backups. - data is encrypted at rest, but not in transit
Service Gateway
Allows VCN to access public OCI services such as Object storage
Instance Principal
Allows instances and applications make API calls
Which two security capabilities are offered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
Always on data encryption for data-at-rest. Key Management service
VCN
Virtual Cloud Network Software defined private network set up in OCI
Which is NOT considered a security resource within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
Web Application Firewall
WAF
Web application firewall - a cloud based, PCI compliant, global security service that protects applications from malicious and unwanted traffic.
In what two ways does Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offer industry leading price performance?
With OCI, pricing Is low and predictable across all regions and services. OCI backs performance claims with Service Level Agreements.
