Organize the tenancy
Use compartments, users, groups and policies to structure and secure an Oracle Cloud tenancy.
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Overview
Compartments, VCNs and policies are how Oracle’s cloud organizes everything.
An Associate exam for people who architect solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, aimed at the core services. It covers identity, networking, compute, storage, databases, security and monitoring, with the trade-offs between them. Oracle says the course and certification are now free, and the credential stays valid for two years.
10Modules
2Years valid
6Skills
7Roles
What it tests
Learn all the way down.
Learn all the way down.
Perform when it matters.
Build the network
Design virtual cloud networks with subnets, gateways, security rules and links to other networks.
Run compute and storage
Choose and configure compute, block, object and file storage to suit a workload.
Host the data
Pick the right database service and plan its availability, security and monitoring.
Course outline
From an empty tenancy
From an empty tenancy
to a secure, working OCI solution.
We design this course ourselves. Oracle runs the exam and issues the credential, and LUNARTECH is independent of Oracle.
Start with the ground rules: what cloud computing offers, who is responsible for what, and how Oracle Cloud divides itself into regions, availability domains and fault domains. Everything later builds on this map.
- Cloud service models and shared responsibility
- Regions, availability domains and fault domains
- Tenancies and the ways to manage them
- Service limits and quotas
- Choosing a region for a workload
You build A diagram of one region showing its domains and a sample workload placed across them.
Access in OCI is a design, not an afterthought. You structure a tenancy with compartments, give users and groups only what they need through policies, and learn how policies are written, inherited and tested.
- Users, groups and identity domains
- Compartments and how to lay them out
- Writing policy statements: verbs, resources and conditions
- Policy inheritance across compartments
- Dynamic groups for resources that call services
- Reviewing and tightening policies
You build A compartment layout and policy set for a small company with three teams.
A VCN is your private network in the cloud. You plan address ranges, split them into public and private subnets, and connect them with route tables and gateways for internet, NAT and Oracle services.
- CIDR blocks and address planning
- Public and private subnets
- Route tables and the internet gateway
- NAT and service gateways
- Security lists and network security groups
- DNS inside a VCN
You build A VCN with public and private subnets, routing and security rules, built and tested.
Real workloads need links beyond one VCN. You connect VCNs by peering, reach on-premises sites through VPN or FastConnect, and spread traffic across instances with load balancers.
- Local and remote VCN peering
- Dynamic routing gateway basics
- Site-to-site VPN and FastConnect
- Application load balancers and network load balancers
- Health checks and backend sets
- Public and private load balancing
You build A two-VCN design with peering and a load balancer in front of two instances.
Compute is where workloads run. You choose shapes by workload, create instances from platform and custom images, keep them patched, and scale them with instance pools and autoscaling.
- Virtual machine, bare metal and flexible shapes
- Platform and custom images
- Instance configurations and instance pools
- Autoscaling rules
- Patching and management with OS Management Hub
- Access with SSH keys and the Bastion service
You build An autoscaling instance pool built from a custom image.
Different data wants different storage. You compare block volumes, object storage and file storage on performance, durability and cost, and use backups and lifecycle rules to manage data over time.
- Boot and block volumes, and their performance levels
- Volume backups and cloning
- Object Storage tiers and buckets
- Lifecycle rules and pre-authenticated requests
- File Storage and mount targets
- Choosing the right storage for a workload
You build A storage plan for three workloads, with lifecycle rules and backups.
Oracle offers several ways to run a database. You match Autonomous Database and database systems to workload needs, and plan backup, recovery and standby so that data survives a failure.
- Autonomous Database workload types
- Virtual machine and bare metal DB systems
- Exadata services in outline
- Backup and restore
- Data Guard for standby and failover
- Networking and access for databases
You build A database selection and recovery plan for a business application.
Protecting data means controlling its keys. You learn how OCI encrypts data by default, when to manage your own keys in a vault, and how to store secrets so that they never sit in code.
- Encryption at rest and in transit
- Oracle-managed and customer-managed keys
- Creating vaults and keys
- Secrets for passwords and tokens
- Key rotation
- Using keys with storage and databases
You build A vault with a key and a secret, used by a storage bucket and an instance.
You cannot run what you cannot see. You collect metrics and logs, set alarms that send notifications, and use audit records to answer who changed what and when.
- Metrics and the Monitoring service
- Alarms and notification topics
- Service and custom logs
- Audit logs for accountability
- Events that trigger automatic responses
- Dashboards for a workload
You build A dashboard with alarms and email notification for a running workload.
Combine the services into one design for a stated need. You choose the pieces, justify the trade-offs, check security and availability, and estimate the cost.
- Reading a requirement and listing the services it needs
- Drawing the architecture
- Checking for single points of failure
- Applying least privilege end to end
- Estimating and trimming cost
- Explaining trade-offs to a stakeholder
You build A complete architecture diagram and write-up for a three-tier application on OCI.
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In practice
Seven roles.
Seven roles.
One credential across them all.
No single job owns it. Here’s where each role leans hardest, and where its work ends up.
- 01IAM
- 02Networking
- 03Compute
- 04Storage
- 05Databases
- 06Security, ops
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A tenancy needs structure before it needs workloads. Compartments and policies provide it.
IAM, Networking, Databases
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise IT, Financial services
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Networks, instances and volumes are daily work. Choosing between them is the skill.
Networking, Compute, Storage
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise IT
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Managed databases still need a recovery plan. Backups and keys are yours to set up.
Databases, Security, ops
Oracle databases, Public sector
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Subnets, gateways and route tables shape every packet. Choose them before you place a workload.
Networking
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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Least-privilege policies start at the compartment. Logs show when someone tests the limits.
IAM, Security, ops
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Financial services
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Instances and block volumes are familiar ground. Sizing and backup choices are the new part.
Compute, Storage
Enterprise IT
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Your app needs compute, storage and a database. Know the trade-offs between each OCI option.
Compute, Databases
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise IT
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Oracle databases
- Enterprise IT
- Public sector
- Financial services
Solutions Architect
A tenancy needs structure before it needs workloads. Compartments and policies provide it.
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