Saturday, February 9, 2019

Oracle Certified Professional―How to Get Certified for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Was very happy to be certified as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2018 Certified Architect Associate. Below I want to share my own experience on:

How to prepare for the certification exam (i.e. 1Z0-932)

Exam Details

How to register

Oracle has partnered with an external testing provider PearsonVue

What to expect afterwards

How to Prepare

After working on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for the past four years, I have lots of hands-on experience with it. But, based on my previous certification experience with Oracle Database and Java, I know passing the certification exam is non-trivial.

After reviewing Exam Topics (see below), I have picked up my old practice of documenting what I read like before. Here are the list of them on this blogger:

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

OCI―Knowing Identity and Access Management Basics

Database

Storage

Compute

OCI―Knowing Compute Service Basics

Network

Below topics may not be that important for the certification (but, they are in the good-to-know category):

Finally, all your final understanding of OCI should be based on the official

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Important Whitepapers

Exam Details

Duration: 105 mins

I had almost run out of time. So, don't spend too much time on any specific question which you don't have confidence with.

You can mark questions for later review.

Number of Questions: 66

Some of them will NOT be counted into your score.
Half of the exam asks questions on how to provide solutions or troubleshoot issues given very detailed scenarios

You need to put on thinking hat on the level of understanding similar to the above whitepapers, not just basic concepts.

Passing Score: 65 %

How to Register

If you're ready to take your exam, schedule it now and pay directly with a credit card, or redeem a voucher you’ve purchased from Oracle. Either way, you'll schedule it through Oracle's external testing provider, PearsonVue.

If you're an Oracle Employee, you may also get a 30% discount voucher (internal link).

What to Expect After the Exam

Within 30 mins, you should be able to find out if you pass or fail the exam from CertView. If you pass the certification exam, you will also receive an email from Acclaim (note that you need to create a new account with it) like below:

You've earned a badge from Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2018 Certified Architect Associate
Issuer: Oracle

Accept your badge

or accept your badge by clicking:
https://www.youracclaim.com/go/M6sEXm688474N984KVaYOw

Exam Topics

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Apply core Identity and Access Management (IAM) component

Describe resource location

Design federation with various identity providers

Apply IAM, governance, and security best practices

Database

Describe OCI Database options

Explain OCI Database Operations

Architect HA and DR solutions

Managing Autonomous Database

Storage

Understand OCI Storage options

Designing storage solutions for applications and database

Compute

Understand compute and sizing

Troubleshoot options using console connections and boot volume

Architect High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions

Describe image options

Network

Apply design concepts related to VCN components

Describe Public and Private IP addresses and virtual NICs

Apply VCN connectivity options

Understand remote network connectivity

Apply OCI Load Balancer concepts

Understand OCI Edge services

Apply OCI networking best practices