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OCI DevOps Professional
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Professional certification course teaches candidates how to design CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC, orchestrate containers, and automate monitoring, logging, security, and release management on OCI, ensuring enterprise‑grade DevOps practices.
90
Minutes
50
Questions
65
Passing Score
$245
Exam Cost
Who Should Take This
It is ideal for cloud engineers, DevOps specialists, and solution architects who have at least two years of experience deploying applications on OCI and want to validate their expertise in automated, secure, and scalable operations. These professionals seek to deepen their knowledge of IaC, container orchestration, and incident response to lead high‑performing DevOps teams and accelerate continuous delivery initiatives.
What's Covered
1
CI/CD Pipeline Design
2
Infrastructure as Code and Automation
3
Container Orchestration
4
Monitoring, Logging, and Incident Response
5
Security Automation and Release Management
What's Included in AccelaStudy® AI
Adaptive Knowledge Graph
Practice Questions
Lesson Modules
Console Simulator Labs
Exam Tips & Strategy
20 Activity Formats
Course Outline
62 learning goals
1
CI/CD Pipeline Design
2 topics
Build Pipelines
- Design build pipelines with managed build runners, parameterized specs, caching strategies, and multi-stage compilation workflows.
- Architect parallel build stages with conditional execution, environment variables, and artifact output management for efficiency.
- Implement source code integration with OCI Code Repository, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket including webhook-based triggers.
- Analyze build performance to optimize compilation times, dependency caching, and build runner resource utilization.
- Configure Build Pipelines with appropriate settings, policies, and parameters for a production deployment scenario.
- Assess Build Pipelines implementations against best practices to identify gaps and recommend improvements for production readiness.
- Architect Build Pipelines solutions with scalability patterns, capacity planning, and growth accommodation for long-term sustainability.
Deployment Pipelines
- Design deployment pipelines for OKE with rolling, blue-green, and canary strategies including traffic shifting percentages.
- Implement Function and Instance Group deployment pipelines with validation stages, health checks, and automated rollback triggers.
- Architect approval gates with manual and automated approval policies, environment promotion rules, and deployment history tracking.
- Evaluate deployment strategies comparing rolling, blue-green, canary, and A/B testing for risk mitigation and downtime minimization.
- Evaluate Deployment Pipelines alternatives and tradeoffs to recommend the optimal approach for given performance and cost constraints.
- Formulate Deployment Pipelines governance frameworks with policies, standards, and compliance monitoring for organizational alignment.
2
Infrastructure as Code and Automation
2 topics
Terraform and Resource Manager
- Implement Terraform configurations with OCI provider for end-to-end infrastructure provisioning across networking, compute, and database.
- Design Resource Manager stacks with input variables, outputs, remote state, and cross-stack references for modular IaC architectures.
- Architect Terraform module libraries with versioning and reusability for standardized infrastructure patterns across environments.
- Implement drift detection workflows using Resource Manager plan operations and automated remediation for configuration compliance.
- Analyze IaC codebases to identify technical debt, state management issues, and module consolidation opportunities.
- Deploy Terraform and Resource Manager with integration to monitoring, logging, and alerting services for operational visibility.
- Analyze Terraform and Resource Manager configurations to identify security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
Configuration Management
- Implement OCI Ansible collections for instance configuration, OS patching, application deployment, and compliance enforcement.
- Design cloud-init and instance metadata-based bootstrapping for automated compute instance configuration at launch time.
- Architect CLI and SDK-based automation scripts for operational tasks, scheduled maintenance, and resource lifecycle management.
- Evaluate automation approaches comparing Terraform, Ansible, CLI scripts, and Functions for different operational requirements.
- Design enterprise-grade Configuration Management architectures incorporating high availability, disaster recovery, and security requirements.
- Apply Configuration Management configuration patterns to meet specific business requirements including compliance and governance needs.
3
Container Orchestration
2 topics
OKE Operations
- Design OKE cluster lifecycle operations including version upgrades, node pool management, and control plane maintenance windows.
- Implement Kubernetes workload management with resource limits, pod disruption budgets, priority classes, and quality of service tiers.
- Architect OKE storage integration using Block Volume CSI, File Storage CSI, and Object Storage FUSE for persistent container workloads.
- Analyze OKE cluster performance using metrics server, Prometheus, Grafana, and OCI Monitoring for capacity planning and optimization.
- Implement OKE Operations following best practices for security, performance, and reliability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Professional.
- Diagnose OKE Operations issues by analyzing metrics, logs, and configuration to determine root causes and remediation steps.
Container Security
- Design container image lifecycle with Container Registry including tagging conventions, scanning, retention, and cross-region replication.
- Implement OKE security with pod security standards, RBAC, network policies, and OCI IAM workload identity for access control.
- Architect supply chain security with image signing, vulnerability scanning thresholds, and admission webhook policy enforcement.
- Evaluate container security to identify image vulnerabilities, runtime misconfigurations, and Kubernetes RBAC policy gaps.
- Analyze Container Security configurations to identify security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
- Recommend Container Security optimization strategies balancing performance, cost, operational complexity, and risk management.
4
Monitoring, Logging, and Incident Response
2 topics
Observability
- Design monitoring strategies with OCI Monitoring custom metrics, composite alarms, and notification integrations for health tracking.
- Implement centralized logging with Logging service, Service Connector Hub, and Logging Analytics for cross-service aggregation.
- Architect APM integration with distributed tracing, span collection, and synthetic monitoring for transaction-level visibility.
- Analyze monitoring data to identify trends, predict capacity needs, and establish SLI/SLO/SLA measurement frameworks.
- Architect Observability solutions with scalability patterns, capacity planning, and growth accommodation for long-term sustainability.
- Configure Observability with appropriate settings, policies, and parameters for a production deployment scenario.
Incident Response Automation
- Design automated incident response with Events, Functions, and Notifications for self-healing infrastructure and auto-remediation.
- Implement runbook automation with Functions triggered by alarms for common operational tasks like instance restart and scaling.
- Architect post-incident processes with audit log analysis, metrics correlation, and timeline reconstruction for root cause analysis.
- Evaluate incident response maturity to recommend detection, response, and recovery workflow improvements for operational excellence.
- Explain how to troubleshoot common issues with Incident Response Automation including error messages, logs, and diagnostic procedures.
- Evaluate Incident Response Automation alternatives and tradeoffs to recommend the optimal approach for given performance and cost constraints.
5
Security Automation and Release Management
2 topics
DevSecOps
- Design shift-left security with static analysis, dependency scanning, and secret detection integrated into build pipeline stages.
- Implement Vault integration in CI/CD pipelines for runtime secret injection without hardcoded credentials in code or configuration.
- Architect compliance-as-code with Security Zones, Cloud Guard policies, and OPA/Gatekeeper for automated governance in deployments.
- Evaluate DevSecOps practices to identify security control gaps and recommend scanning, policy, and governance improvements.
- Compare DevSecOps deployment patterns to determine the best architecture for meeting availability and scalability requirements.
- Design enterprise-grade DevSecOps architectures incorporating high availability, disaster recovery, and security requirements.
Release Management
- Design artifact management with Artifact Registry including semantic versioning, immutability policies, and retention automation.
- Architect release workflows with feature flags, progressive rollouts, and automated rollback based on error rate and latency metrics.
- Implement deployment verification with smoke tests, integration tests, and canary analysis for production release validation.
- Analyze release processes to identify deployment risks, improve release frequency, and reduce mean time to recovery.
- Plan Release Management migration and modernization strategies including phased rollout, testing, and rollback procedures.
- Implement Release Management following best practices for security, performance, and reliability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Professional.
Scope
Included Topics
- All domains in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Professional (1Z0-1109) exam guide.
- Topics: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Container Orchestration, Monitoring, Security Automation, Release Management.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, tools, and best practices relevant to this certification.
- Scenario-based problem solving at the Professional level.
Not Covered
- Topics outside the official exam guide scope.
- Programming language specifics and code-level implementation details.
- Specific pricing values and promotional offers that change over time.
- Third-party products and non-Oracle services beyond basic integration awareness.
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