Oracle AA Exam questions
• Activate the replica.
1. 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?
• It prevents the modification or deletion of ObjectA for the next 6 months and allows the modification or deletion of ObjectB.
11. In an Object Storage bucket you have two objects named ObjectA and ObjectB. ObjectA was last modified six months ago and ObjectB was modified 14 months ago. You create a retention rule and specify a duration of 1 year. What does the rule do?
Changes within the objects stored in an Object Storage bucket are collected as Audit logs.
11. Which is NOT a valid statement regarding the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Audit service?
•Autonomous Container Database • Exadata Infrastructure.
12. 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?
• You can change the shape of a Virtual Machine DB System to change the number of OCPU cores. • You can scale up storage in a Virtual Machine DB System without any downtime.
13. 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's 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?
While a multipart upload is still active, you can keep adding parts as long as the total number is less than 10,000. When you split the object into individual parts, each part can be as large as 50 GiB.
13. 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?
Service Gateway Internet Gateway NAT Gateway
14. When creating an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) with the VCN wizard, which THREE gateways are created automatically?
• Connectivity to Swift endpoints • Access to the OCI Object Storage service
14. 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?
• 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.
15. 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?
• Medium for a lower level of resources to process each SQL statement. • High for the highest level of resources to process each SQL statement.
16.Which TWO predefined service names can you use when connecting to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Autonomous Data Warehouse?
• Fix the base line by configuring Conditional Groups for the detector. • Dismiss the problems associated with those resources.
17. 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?
• Allow group A-Developers to create volumes in compartment Project-A.
18. Which Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy is invalid?
• Backup and restore your TDE wallets from the source to the target database.
19. What security consideration should you be mindful of before performing a database migration?
• Ensure VCN CIDR prefix overlaps with other VCNS in your tenancy or with your organizations private IP network ranges.
2. Which is NOT a valid Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) approach?
• Data Pump • GoldenGate.
20. Which are the TWO tools you would use for Logical migration?
Create an NFS export option that allows READ_ONLY access where the source is the CIDR range of the DB System subnet.
20. You created a virtual cloud network (VCN) with three private subnets. Two of the subnets contain application servers and the third subnet contains a DB System. The application requires a shared file system, therefore you have provisioned one using the file storage service (FSS). You have also created the corresponding mount target in one of the application subnets. The VCN security lists are properly configured so that the application servers can access FSS. The security team changed the settings for the DB System to have read-only access to the file system. However when they test it, they are unable to access FSS. How would you allow access to FSS?
• 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
21. 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.
Goal: A recurring daily schedule. At 8.30 a.m. on weekday mornings, a scale out to 10 instances.
21. You have a high-demand web application running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Your tenancy administrator has set up a schedule-based autoscaling policy on instance pool with an initial size of 5 instances for the application. Policy 1: Target pool size: 10 instances Execution time: 8:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, every month, every year Cron expression: 0 30 8 ? * MON-FRI * Which statement accurately explains the goal of this policy?
You can restore a volume to any availability domain within the same region where the backup is stored You can restore a block volume backup to a larger volume size.
22. Which TWO statements are TRUE about restoring a volume from a block volume backup in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Block Volume service?
• Create a custom image and use it as a template for the new instances.
22. 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?
• Virtual Circuits • IPSec Tunnel • Remote Peering Connections.
23. You can attach resources to a Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG). Select THREE of these resources.
• Microsoft Azure
24. As your company's cloud architect, you have been invited by the CEO to join his staff meeting. They want your input on interconnecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to another cloud provider in London, with some specific requirements: • They want resources in the other cloud provider to leverage OCI Autonomous Data Warehouse ML capabilities. • The connection between OCI and the other cloud provider should be provisioned as quickly as possible. • The connection should offer high bandwidth and predictable performance. Which other cloud provider should you recommend to interconnect with OCI and meet the above requirements?
Enterprise Edition Extreme Performance
24. Which database option in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides Oracle Active Data Guard?
• Virtual Cloud Network
25. What should be created before provisioning an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DB System?
Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)
25. 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?
• Domains can be delegated to OCI DNS from the Domain Registrar's self-service portal.
26. Which statement is TRUE about delegating an existing domain to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DNS service?
• By default, the primary VNIC of an instance in a subnet has one primary private IP address. • A private IP can have an optional public IP assigned to it if it resides in a public subnet.
28. Which TWO statements are TRUE about Private IP addresses in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?
• You can assign a given instance multiple public IPs across one or more VNICS. • Public IP addresses can be ephemeral or reserved.
29. Which TWO statements are TRUE about Public IP addresses in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?
192.168.0.0/16
3. Which of the following is a valid RFC 1918 CIDR prefix that can be used for creating an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)?
Create a replication policy to send data to a different bucket in another OCI region.
30. 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?
• There is no automation with patching. You need to check for patches and manually schedule when to apply the patches.
30.Which statement is TRUE about patching an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DB System?
• Exadata Virtual Machine
31. Which is NOT a valid option for an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) compute shape?
• Generate Auth Tokens to enable instances in the dynamic group to authenticate with APIs.
32. You need to set up instance principals so that an application running on an instance can call Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) public services, without the need to configure user credentials. A developer in your team has already configured the application built using an OCI SDK to authenticate using the instance principals provider. Which is NOT a necessary step to complete this set up?
Each VNIC can only have one private IP address. By default, the primary VNIC of an instance in a subnet has one primary private IP address.
33. Which TWO statements are TRUE about Private IP addresses in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?
• OS Management service
33. You are a system administrator of your company and you are managing a complex environment consisting of compute instances running Oracle Linux on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Its your task to apply all the latest kernel security updates to all instances. Which OCI service will allow you to complete this task?
TCP, UDP, ICMP
34. Which THREE protocols are supported by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Network Load Balancer?
• TCP • UDP • ICMP.
34. Which THREE protocols are supported by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Network Load Balancer?
• It will no longer send traffic to it.
35. A customer's webserver runs a complicated application on three Baremetal instances that serve as backends on a backend set for an OCI public Load Balancer. If one of the Baremetal instances fails, what will the OCI Load Balancer do?
Configure the autoscaling policy to monitor memory usage and scale up the number of instances when it meets the threshold.
35. 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.
36. 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?
• Object Versioning is disabled on a bucket by default.
37. As a solution architect, you are showcasing the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage feature about Object Versioning to a customer. Which statement is true regarding OCI Object Storage Versioning?
Use Vulnerability Scanning Service.
38 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 replication policy to send data to a different bucket in another OCI region.
38. 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?
• Object Versioning is enabled at the namespace level.
39. Which statement is NOT true about the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage service?
The maximum size for a script file that you upload directly to an instance in plain text is 4 KB.
39. Which statement is true regarding the run command feature in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute service?
Configure two FastConnect virtual circuits to the ua-ashburn-1 region and terminate them in diverse hardware on-premises. Configure one FastConnect virtual circuit to the us-ashburn-1 region and a Site-to-Site VPN to the us-ashburn-1 region.
4. 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?
• The instance is either reboot-migrated or rebuilt in place for you!
4. 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?
• Infrequent Access tier
40. 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?
• Allow group NetworkAdmins to manage virtual-network-family in compartment A:B:C
41. You want to create a policy to allow network admins group to manage VCN in compartment C. You want to attach this policy to the tenancy. The compartment hierarchy is shown below . Which policy statement can be used to accomplish this task
• File systems use Oracle-managed keys by default. • Customer can encrypt data in their file system using their own Vault encryption key.
42. Which TWO statements about the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) File Storage Service are accurate?
• When setting up Site-to-Site VPN, customers can configure it to use static or dynamic routing (BGP). • When setting up Site-to-Site VPN, OCI provisions redundant VPN tunnels.
43. Which TWO are key benefits of setting up Site-to-Site VPN on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?
• Grouping Function • Dimensions.
44. Which TWO components are optional while creating the Monitoring Query Language (MQL) expressions in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring service?
• The VNIC of that compute instance is attached to a Network Security Group (NSG) that has a stateful ingress rule for all protocols on source CIDR 0.0.0.0/0.
45. A recently hired network administrator has been given the task of removing SSH permissions from all compute instances in the company's tenancy. She finds all Virtual Cloud Networks (VCNS) in the tenancy using Tenancy Explorer. She removes port 22 from the Security Lists in all VCNs. After she completes the task, the very first compute instance that she tests SSH against, allows her to still SSH into it. Why is that?
• Even if nothing has changed within the file system since the last snapshot was taken, a new snapshot consumes more storage
46. 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
47. Which statement is NOT correct regarding the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OI) File System snapshots?
• While a multipart upload is still active, you can keep adding parts as long as the total number is less than 10,000.
47. 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?
• Use consumer group high for both month-end jobs and data analytics.
48. 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 everyday. How can your customer implement this requirement?
• Attaching a block volume to an instance in a different availability domain.
49. Which is NOT a valid action within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Block Volume service?
Changes within the objects stored in an Object Storage bucket are collected as Audit logs.
5. Which is NOT a valid statement regarding the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Audit service?
Backup and restore your TDE wallets from the source to the target database.
5.What security consideration should you be mindful of before performing a database migration?
• The maximum size for a script file that you upload directly to an instance in plain text is 4 KB.
50. Which of the following statements is true about cloning a volume in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Block Volume service?
• Preemptible instances
52. 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?
• Live Migration Agent
53. Oracle Cloud Agent is a lightweight process that manages plugins running on compute instances. Which is NOT a valid Oracle Cloud Agent plugin name?
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
53.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?
• Baseline utilization is a fraction of each CPU core, either 25% or 75%. • Burstable instances are charged according to the baseline OCPU.
54. Which TWO statements are NOT correct regarding the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) burstable instances?
Use consumer group high for month-end jobs and consumer group medium for data analytics.
55. 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 everyday. How can your customer implement this requirement?
Creating and managing zones Viewing all zones Creating and managing records
7. Which THREE capabilities are available with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DNS service?
• ObjectCollectionRule • Service Connectors.
7. 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?
• 2 GB
8. 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?
• 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 old.
9. 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 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?
You can change the block volume size when cloning a volume.
Which of the following statements is true about cloning a volume in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Block Volume service?
• Audit
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?
