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You create a file system and then add a 2 GB file. You then take a snapshot of the file system. What would be the total meteredBytes shown by the File Storage service after the hourly update cycle is complete?

2 GB

You have a block volume created in the US West (Phoenix) region. You enabled Cross Region Replication for the volume and selected US West (San Jose) as the destination region. Now, you would like to create a new volume from the volume replica in the US West (San Jose) region. What should you do?

Activate the replica

Which is NOT a valid action within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Block Volume service?

Attaching a block volume to an instance in a different availability domain

You are part of an organization with thousands of users accessing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). An unknown user action was executed resulting in configuration errors. You are tasked to quickly identify the details of all users who were active in the last six hours along with any REST API calls that were executed. Which OCI service would you use?

Audit

What security consideration should you be mindful of before performing a database migration?

Backup and restore your TDE wallets from the source to the target database

Which statement is true about Data Guard implementation in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) bare metal and virtual machine database systems?

Both database systems must be in the same compartment.

Which is NOT a valid statement regarding the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Audit service?

Changes within the objects stored in an object storage bucket are collected as Audit logs.

You want to have an exact copy of your database system to demonstrate the feasibility of a method you have in mind. You decide to clone your database system. Which of the following statement is true about cloning a database system?

Cloning creates a copy of the source DB system as it exists at the time of the cloning operation, including the storage configuration software and database volumes.

You are managing a tier-1 OLTP application on an Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) database. Your business needs to run hourly batch processes on this ATP database that may consume more CPUs than what is available on the server. How can you limit these batch processes to not interfere with the OLTP transactions?

Configure ATP resource management rules to manage runtime and IO consumption for the consumer group of batch processes

You are responsible for deploying an application on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The application is memory intensive and performs poorly if enough memory is not available. You have created an instance pool of Linux compute instances in OCI to host the application and defined Autoscaling Configuration for the instance pool. What should you do to ensure that the instance pool autoscales to prevent poor application performance?

Configure the autoscaling policy to monitor memory usage and scale up the number of instances when it meets the threshold.

As a network architect you have been tasked with creating a fully redundant connection from your on-premises data center to your Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) in the us-ashburn-1 region. Which TWO options will accomplish this requirement?

Configure two FastConnect virtual circuits to the us-ashburn-1 region and terminate them in diverse hardware on-premises.

You just got a last-minute request to create a set of instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The configuration and installed software are identical for every instance, and you already have a running instance in your OCI tenancy. Which image option allows you to achieve this task with the least amount of effort?

Create a custom image and use it as a template for the new instances

Your company has been running several small applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and is planning a proof-of-concept (POC) to deploy Oracle PeopleSoft. If your existing resources are being maintained in the root compartment, what is the recommended approach for defining security for the upcoming POC?

Create a new compartment for the POC and grant appropriate permissions to create and manage resources within the compartment.

You deployed a compute instance (VM.Standard2.16) to run a SQL database. After a few weeks, you need to increase disk performance by using NVMe disks; the number of CPUs will not change. As a first step, you terminate the instance and preserve the boot volume. What is the next step?

Create a new instance using a VM.DenselO2.16 shape using the preserved boot volume and move the SQL database to NVMe disks

A financial firm is designing an application architecture for its online trading platform that should have high availability and fault tolerance. Their solutions architect configured the application to use an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage bucket located in the US West (us-phoenix-1) region to store large amounts of financial data. The stored financial data in the bucket should not be impacted even if there is an outage in one of the Availability Domains or a complete region. What should the architect do to avoid any costly service disruptions and ensure data durability?

Create a replication policy to send data to a different bucket in another OCI region

As a solution architect, you designed the network infrastructure of a three-tier web application on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the back-end database servers are put in a private subnet. One of your database administrators requests to have private access to OCI object storage service. How should you fulfill this request?

Create a service gateway, add a new route rule to the private subnet route table that uses object storage as target type.

You plan to launch a VM instance with the VM.Standard2.24 shape and Oracle Linux 8 platform image. You want to protect your VM instance from low-level threats, such as rootkits and bootkits that can infect the firmware and operating system and are difficult to detect. What should you do?

Create a shielded instance

You work for a health insurance company that stores a large number of patient health records in an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage bucket named "HealthRecords". Each record needs to be securely stored for a period of 5 years for regulatory compliance purposes and cannot be modified, overwritten, or deleted during this time period. What can you do to meet this requirement?

Create an OCI Object Storage time-bound Retention Rule on the HealthRecords bucket for five years. Enable Retention Rule Lock on this bucket.

You have multiple applications running on a compute instance that generate a large amount of log files. You are required to retain these log files retained for a total of 60 days; at least 15 days on the boot volume, and an additional 45 days in any location. Which is the most cost-effective way to meet the 15- day boot volume retention requirement and the 60-day total retention requirement?

Create an Object Storage bucket and use a script that runs daily to move log files older than 15 days from the boot volume to the bucket. Create a lifecycle rule for the bucket to delete any logs over 60 days.

Your DevOps team needs to interconnect the on-premises network to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) resources, such as a managed database that resides in a private subnet. They indicate that they have a low budget, and their bandwidth requirements are minimal, so you decide that a site-to-site VPN is the best option. They provide you with their router public IP address. You need to create an object in OCI that represents this router. Which object would you create?

Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)

Your company decided to move a few applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in the US West (us-phoenix-1) region. You need to design a cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) solution with a requirement to deploy the DR resources in the US East (us-ashburn-1) region to minimize network latency. What is the recommended deployment?

Deploy production and DR applications in two separate VCNs, each in different regions. Connect them using a VCN remote peering connection

You have an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) load balancer distributing traffic via an evenly-weighted round robin policy to your back-end web servers. You notice that one of your web servers is receiving more traffic than other web servers. How can you resolve this to make sure traffic is evenly distributed across all back-end webservers?

Disable cookie-based session persistence on your backend set.

Which statement is TRUE about delegating an existing domain to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DNS service?

Domains can be delegated to OCI DNS from the Domain Registrar's self-service portal.

Which is NOT a valid Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) approach?

Ensure VCN CIDR prefix overlaps with other VCNs in your tenancy or with your organizations private IP network ranges

Which statement is NOT correct regarding the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OI) File System snapshots?

Even if nothing has changed within the file system since the last snapshot was taken, a new snapshot consumes more storage.

You are in the process of migrating several legacy applications from on-premises to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The current servers are already virtualized. However, you notice that the version of CentOS currently running does not align with any of the Oracle-provided compute images. How would you migrate your existing virtual server images to OCI?

Export your current image in the QCOW2 format and copy to an Object Storage bucket. Import it as a custom image. Select emulated mode to ensure compatibility with legacy drivers.

How many components of OCI architecture are there?

Five

You are using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Vault service to create and manage Secrets. For your database password, you have created a secret and rotated the secret one time. The secret versions are as follows: Version Number | Status ----------------------------------------- 2 (latest) | Current 1 | Previous You later realize that you have made a mistake in updating the secret content for version 2 and want to rollback to version 1. What should you do to rollback to version 1?

From the version 1 menus on the OCI console, select "Promote to Current".

You are responsible for creating and maintaining an enterprise application that consists of multiple storage volumes across multiple compute instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The storage volumes include boot volumes and block volumes for your data storage. You need to create a backup for the boot volumes that will be done daily and a backup for the block volumes that will be done every six hours. How can you meet this requirement?

Group the boot volumes into a volume group and create a custom backup policy. Group the block volumes and create a custom backup policy.

You are responsible for creating and maintaining an enterprise application that consists of multiple storage volumes across multiple compute instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The storage volumes include boot volumes and block volumes for your data storage. You need to create backups of these storage volumes in the most time-efficient manner. How can you meet this requirement?

Group together multiple storage volumes in a volume group and create volume group backups

A Fault Domain is a collection of _____________ and equipment.

Hardware

You are backing up your on-premises data to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage Service. Your requirements are: 1. Backups need to be retained for at least full 31 days. 2. Data should be accessible immediately if and when needed after the backup. Which OCI Object Storage tier is suitable for storing the backup to minimize cost?

Infrequent Access Tier

Which Storage tier is cool storage used for data that you access infrequently, but the retention period is 31 days?

Infrequent tier

Oracle Cloud Agent is a lightweight process that manages plugins running on compute instances. Which is NOT a valid Oracle Cloud Agent plugin name?

Live Migration Agent

You have hired a new employee to run reports from the Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) and are not confident in their SQL writing ability. Into which consumer group will you assign this individual to minimize the impact of their code?

Low

A customer launched a compute instance in the Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), which has an internet gateway, a service gateway, a default security list, and a default route table. The customer opened up Port 22 in the security lists attached to the compute instance subnet, however, is still unable to connect to compute instances using SSH. Which action can resolve this issue?

Modify the route table associated with the VCN subnet in which the instance resides. Add the following route to the route table: Destination CIDR: 0.0.0.0/0 Target: Internet Gateway (IGW)

Which of the following components of OCI identity provides a collection of IP addresses that access your tenancy's resources?

Network Source

Which statement is NOT true about the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage service?

Object Versioning is enabled at the namespace level.

Which certificate format is used with the load balancer?

PEM

Your company sells services to photographers where patrons can preview the photos that they want prints for. To avoid unauthorized copies, the sample photos have lower resolution and are watermarked. The photos are processed after they are uploaded. The process is fast but not immediate. It creates samples and sends them to storage outside of the instances. Which type of instance is ideal for a process like this; short lived and one that keeps the cost low?

Preemptible instances

As a network architect you have deployed a public subnet on your Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) with this security list:

SSH traffic is not allowed in the security list nor on the NSG from the Internet

Which of the following allows you to establish access that spans compartments, groups, and resources with more flexibility?

Tag-Based Access Control

Your cloud developer is using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Vault service to encrypt plaintext. She runs the following command using the OCI Command Line Interface (CLI) and encounters a service error. oci kms crypto encrypt --key-id ocid1.key.oc1.iad.bbptfrr5aaeuk.abuwcljt32arg6e6xlswgluvc52lnrtk62jq7jenfejfxlhb46nkav3zhsta --plaintext foobar --endpoint https://bbptfrr5aaeuk-management.kms.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com What could be the most likely reason for this error?

The developer has the wrong endpoints

You have an instance running in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that cannot be live-migrated during an infrastructure maintenance event. OCI schedules a maintenance due date within 14 to 16 days and sends you a notification. What would happen if you proactively reboot the instance before the scheduled maintenance due date?

The instance is either reboot-migrated or rebuilt in place for you.

You have an application server running in a public subnet on a compute instance in the US West (us-phoenix-1) region of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The data sitting on this instance needs to be copied to the OCI Object storage bucket available in the same region without traversing over the internet. To enable the connectivity between the instance and Object Storage, you created a service gateway with service CIDR of all Object Storage in us-phoenix-1 enabled. You also modified the security rules to allow the desired traffic. However, when you tried sending the data to the Object Storage bucket, you notice that the data is going over the internet and not via the service gateway. What could be the possible reason for this behavior?

The route table associated with the subnet has no route rule where the destination is object storage service.

You are a security administrator for your company's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy. Your storage administrator informs you that she cannot associate an encryption key from an existing Vault to a new Object Storage bucket. What could be a possible reason for this behavior?

There is no Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that allows the Object Storage service to use the key.

You are deploying a highly available web application in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and have decided to use a public load balancer. The back-end web servers will be distributed across all three availability domains (ADs). How many subnets should you create to deliver a secure, highly available application?

Three subnets in total; one regional public subnet to host your back-end web servers and two AD specific private subnets to host your private load balancer.

Why would you use Multi-Region Table in Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service?

To have a table with the same name maintaining consistent data across the multiple KVStore clusters.

You are launching a new project in the US West (Phoenix) region. You would like to reserve the compute capacity mentioned below so that the capacity is available for your workloads when you need it. 10 VM.Standard2.2 Instances 6 VM.Standard.E4.Flex Instances The project also requires you to be mindful about high availability and place the instances in at least two Availability Domains. At a bare minimum, how many capacity reservations would you create to meet this requirement?

Two

Your customer would run month-end jobs on their on-premises databases that would take around 14 hours to complete and sometimes even fail due to overloaded database systems. After a detailed evaluation, they migrated their database to Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse. They realized they could also move their analytics platform to Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) and have their best of breed technology platforms meet their critical business requirements. After migrating their analytics platform, they want to use one consumer group for running month-end jobs and another consumer group that can be used by the analytics team for performing data analytics tasks every day. How can your customer implement this requirement?

Use consumer group high for month-end jobs and consumer group medium for data analytics

Which of the following statements is true about cloning a volume in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Block Volume service?

You can change the block volume size when cloning a volume

An Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tenancy administrator is not able to delete a user in the tenancy. What can cause this issue?

User is member of an Identity and Access Management (IAM) group.

What should be created before provisioning an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DB System?

Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)

Which of the following statements is true about cloning a volume in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service?

You can change the block volume size when cloning a volume

Which TWO statements are TRUE about Private IP addresses in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?

a. A private IP can have an optional public IP assigned to it if it resides in a public subnet b. By default, the primary VNIC of an instance in a subnet has one primary private IP address.

You need to implement automatic backups for your database system. You can easily check "Enable Automatic Backup" in the web console. Before you do that though, you need to have which of the following TWO prerequisites in place?

a. Access to the OCI Object Storage service b. Connectivity to Swift endpoints

You have been asked to create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) user that will authenticate to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) API endpoints. This user must not be given credentials that would allow them to log into the OCI console. Which two authentication options can you use? (Choose two.)

a. Auth token b. API signing key

Which two choices are true for Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW)? (Choose two.)

a. Billing for compute stops when ADW is stopped b. Billing for storage continues when ADW is stopped

Which two choices are true for Oracle Autonomous Database with Shared Exadata Infrastructure? (Choose two.)

a. Billing for compute usage stops when autonomous database is stopped. b. Billing for storage usage continues when autonomous database is stopped

Which TWO statements are NOT correct regarding the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) burstable instances?

a. Burstable instances cost less than regular instances with the same total OCPU count b. Baseline utilization is a fraction of each CPU core, either 25% or 75%.

Which of the following statements is true about cloning a volume in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service?

a. Cloning a volume is faster than creating a backup b. You can clone a boot volume while the instance is still running

Which TWO statements about the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) File Storage Service are accurate?

a. Customer can encrypt data in their file system using their own Vault encryption key. b. File systems use Oracle-managed keys by default.

Which TWO components are optional while creating the Monitoring Query Language (MQL) expressions in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring service?

a. Dimensions b. Grouping function

A few Object Storage buckets in your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy should remain public, and yet you do not want the Cloud Guard service to detect these as problems. In which TWO ways would you address this requirement?

a. Dismiss the problems associated with those resources. b. Fix the base line by configuring Conditional Groups for the detector

Your IT team has asked you to provision an Autonomous Database in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), but they want it to operate similar to what you have currently on-premises. What are the TWO prerequisites for successfully deploying an Autonomous Dedicated Database in OCI?

a. Exadata Infrastructure b. Autonomous Container Database

You are about to upload a large log file (5 TiB size) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure object storage and have decided to use multipart upload capability for a more efficient and resilient upload. Which two statements are true about multipart upload? (Choose two.)

a. Individual object parts can be as small as 10MiB or as large as 50 GiB b. The maximum size for an uploaded object is 10 TiB

When creating an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) with the VCN wizard, which THREE gateways are created automatically?

a. Internet Gateway b. Service Gateway c. NAT Gateway

Which two are true for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DNS? (Choose two.)

a. It supports other cloud providers such as AWS and Azure b. It supports segregation of traffic by using the private pool.

Which TWO predefined service names can you use when connecting to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Autonomous Data Warehouse?

a. Medium for a lower level of resources to process each SQL statement. b. High for the highest level of resources to process each SQL statement.

In which TWO ways does Cloud Guard help improve the overall security posture for your tenancy?

a. Monitors unauthorized or suspicious user activity. b. Helps detect misconfigured resources, such as publicly accessible storage buckets, instance, and restricted ports on security list.

You are part of a team that manages a set of workload instances running in an on-premises environment. The Architect team is tasked with designing and configuring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Logging service to collect logs from these instances. There is a requirement to archive Info-level logging data of these instances into the OCI Object Storage. Which TWO features of OCI can help you achieve this?

a. Service Connectors b. Agent Configurations

Which THREE protocols are supported by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Network Load Balancer?

a. TCP b. UDP c. ICMP

You have created a public subnet and an internet gateway in your virtual cloud network (VCN). The public subnet has an associated route table and security list. However, after creating several compute instances in the public subnet, none can reach the Internet. Which two are possible reasons for the connectivity issue? (Choose two.)

a. The route table has no default route for routing traffic to the internet gateway b. There is no stateful egress rule in the security list associated with the public subnet

In your organization your system administrators can connect to an Autonomous Database that uses shared Exadata infrastructure from a VCN with either a public or private endpoint. As a Solution Architect you need to guide your system admin. Which two options are valid?

a. To connect to Autonomous Databases that use a public endpoint from a VCN, the VCN must be configured with service gateway: For access from a public subnet in the VCN. Make sure to configure the subnet's route table with a rule that sends the desired traffic to the specific gateway. Also configure the subnet's security lists to allow the desired traffic. b. To connect autonomous databases that use a private endpoint from a VCN, you must configure a security rule within one of the database's network security groups (NSGs) to allow access to the Autonomous Database endpoint.

Which TWO are key benefits of setting up Site-to-Site VPN on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?

a. When setting up Site-to-Site VPN, customers can configure it to use static or dynamic routing (BGP). b. When setting up Site-to-Site VPN, OCI provisions redundant VPN tunnels.

You plan to upload a large file (3 TiB) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage. You would like to minimize the impact of network failures while uploading, and therefore you decide to use the multipart upload capability. Which TWO statements are true about performing a multipart upload using the Multipart Upload API?

a. While a multipart upload is active, you can keep adding parts as long as the total number is less the 10,000 b. When you split the object into individual parts, each part can be as large as 50GiB.

Which TWO statements are TRUE about Public IP addresses in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?

a. You can assign a given instance multiple public Ips across one or more VNICs b. Public IP addresses can be ephemeral or reserved

Which two statements are true about an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure object storage bucket? (Choose two.)

a. You can associate a bucket with only a single compartment b. You cannot edit or append data to an object, but you can replace the entire object.

The volume of transactions of your rental business is increasing. You anticipate a rise in workload during the upcoming holiday sales event. You want to ensure that the business is not impacted during the event due to an overloaded database system. Based on your database administrator& suggestion, you intend to scale up your Virtual Machine DB System during the event period to address the resource demand. Which of the following TWO statements are true about scaling the Virtual Machine DB System?

a. You can change the shape of a Virtual Machine DB System to change the number of OCPU cores b. You can scale up storage in a Virtual Machine DB System without any downtime

Which two statements are true about subnets within a VCN? (Choose two.)

a. You can have multiple subnets in an availability domain for a given VCN b. Instances obtain their private IP and the associated security list from their subnets.

An instance is launched with a primary VNIC that is created during instance launch. Which two operations are true when you add secondary VNICs to an existing instance? (Choose two.)

a. You can remove the secondary VNIC later if it is not needed b. The primary and secondary VNIC association should be within the same Availability Domain

Which two statements are true about restoring a volume from a block volume backup in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service? (Choose two.)

a. You can restore a block volume backup to a larger volume size. b. You can restore a volume to any availability domain within the same region where the backup is stored