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Retired associate-level certification for architects designing solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the 2022 release. It covered OCI core services — compute, storage, virtual cloud networking, identity and access management, and databases — along with high availability, disaster recovery and the design trade-offs between OCI services. Passing demonstrated the ability to design and deploy an OCI architecture.

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  • Networking35%
  • Storage25%
  • Compute20%
  • Identity and Access Management20%

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QuestionQ1

Networking

You can attach resources to a Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG). Select THREE of the following resources.

Choose three
  • A IPSec Tunnel
  • B Subnet
  • C VNIC
  • D Remote Peering Connections
  • E Local Peering Connection
  • F Virtual Circuits
Explanation

OCI DRG attachment types include IPSec tunnel attachments, virtual circuit attachments, and remote peering connection attachments. Subnets and VNICs are not DRG attachment types, and local peering is performed through local peering gateways rather than a DRG attachment.

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QuestionQ2

Networking

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

  • A Virtual Cloud Network
  • B Compute Instance
  • C Compartment
  • D Bucket in Object Storage
Explanation

An OCI DB System must be launched into a correctly configured Virtual Cloud Network (VCN). The VCN provides the required subnet and associated networking configuration for the DB System.

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QuestionQ3

Compute

You are migrating several legacy applications from on premises to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The existing servers are already virtualized. However, you find that the current CentOS version does not match any Oracle-provided compute image.

How should you migrate the existing virtual server images to OCI?

  • A Export your current image in the VDI format and copy to an Object Storage bucket. Import it as a custom image. Select native mode to ensure the best possible performance.
  • B 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.
  • C Export your current image in the QED format and copy to an Object Storage bucket. Import it as a custom image. Select emulated mode to ensure compatibility with legacy drivers.
  • D Export your current image in the VMDK format and copy to an Object Storage bucket. Import it as a custom image. Select native mode to ensure the best possible performance.
Explanation

OCI custom-image import accepts externally created Linux disk images in QCOW2 or VMDK format stored in Object Storage. Imported Linux VMs can use emulated mode, which presents emulated devices for compatibility with legacy drivers; this is appropriate when an older CentOS image might not contain the paravirtualized drivers needed for higher-performance modes.

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QuestionQ4

Storage

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

  • A Immutable option for data stored in Object Storage can be set via retention rules.
  • B Object lifecycle rules can be used to either archive or delete objects.
  • C Object Storage resources can be shared across tenancies.
  • D Object Versioning is enabled at the namespace level.
Explanation

Object versioning is enabled at the bucket level, not at the Object Storage namespace level. Each bucket has its own versioning status.

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QuestionQ5

Identity and Access Management

Which Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy statement is invalid?

  • A Allow dynamic-group FrontEnd to manage instance-family in compartment Project-A
  • B Allow any-user to inspect users in tenancy
  • C Allow group A-Admins to manage all-resources in compartment Project-A
  • D Allow group A-Developers to create volumes in compartment Project-A
Explanation

OCI IAM policies support the predefined verbs inspect, read, use, and manage; create is not a valid policy verb. Creating a block volume is granted through manage volumes, which includes the VOLUME_CREATE permission.

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