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Question 1 of 10
Objective Design VCNs, CIDRs, subnets, and IP addressing Networking architecture and connectivity

A company plans to peer a new analytics VCN with an existing 10.20.0.0/16 VCN. The proposed analytics CIDR is 10.20.64.0/18. Which change should the architect make before implementing the peering?

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Question 2 of 10
Objective Design Object Storage tiers and lifecycle Storage architecture and data protection

A Standard bucket contains objects that should automatically be deleted 180 days after creation, while previous object versions should be deleted sooner. Which OCI feature should implement this?

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Question 3 of 10
Objective Design local, remote, and transit routing Networking architecture and connectivity

A hub VCN uses a firewall appliance to inspect traffic between two spoke VCNs. Which OCI routing feature is needed to steer spoke-to-spoke traffic through the firewall rather than using only implicit local routing?

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Question 4 of 10
Objective Design File Storage mounts and exports Storage architecture and data protection

Several Linux instances need concurrent POSIX-style access to the same shared directory. Which OCI storage service and access model is the most natural fit?

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Objective Diagnose service health and operational responsibility Observability, automation, governance, and cost

A team sees an OCI service metric missing for one resource while peer resources report normally. What is the better first response than immediately scaling the resource?

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Objective Select images, boot volumes, and instance configuration Compute, scaling, and resilient application architecture

A custom image was created on an x86 VM, and the team plans to launch it on an Arm-based flexible shape. What should be validated before deployment?

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Question 7 of 10
Objective Write least-privilege IAM policies Identity and access management architecture

A policy currently says `Allow group AppTeam to manage all-resources in tenancy`. The team only administers instances in compartment AppProd. What is the most important repair?

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Objective Select Autonomous, Base Database, Exadata, MySQL, or NoSQL Database architecture, availability, and migration

A startup wants an Oracle relational database where Oracle handles provisioning, patching, backups, tuning, and elastic compute scaling with minimal DBA effort. Which service best fits?

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Objective Apply budgets, cost analysis, and usage reporting Observability, automation, governance, and cost

A team still depends on the old OCI usage-report CSV workflow as if it were the current recommended source in 2026. What should the architect change?

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Question 10 of 10
Objective Select VM, bare metal, dedicated, and flexible compute Compute, scaling, and resilient application architecture

A workload requires direct access to physical hardware and cannot tolerate a hypervisor layer. Which compute instance type is most appropriate?

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Question 1 A company plans to peer a new analytics VCN with an existing 10.20.0.0/16 VCN. The proposed analytics CIDR is 10.20.64.0/18. Which change should the architect make before implementing the peering?

Answer choices

  1. A. Choose a nonoverlapping CIDR for the analytics VCN, such as 10.30.0.0/16, before creating the peering relationship.
  2. B. Keep 10.20.64.0/18 and add a more-specific route on both VCNs after the peering is created.
  3. C. Keep the overlapping CIDRs and rely on network security groups to distinguish traffic between the two VCNs.
  4. D. Create the peering first, then use a NAT gateway in each VCN to translate all inter-VCN traffic.

Correct answer

Choose a nonoverlapping CIDR for the analytics VCN, such as 10.30.0.0/16, before creating the peering relationship.

Peered VCNs must use nonoverlapping CIDRs, so the address plan must be corrected before peering. More-specific routes do not make overlapping VCN address spaces valid for peering. NSGs filter traffic; they do not resolve ambiguous overlapping address spaces. NAT gateways provide outbound translation to the internet and are not the remedy for overlapping peered VCN CIDRs.

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  • B. Keep 10.20.64.0/18 and add a more-specific route on both VCNs after the peering is created.: More-specific routes do not make overlapping VCN address spaces valid for peering.
  • C. Keep the overlapping CIDRs and rely on network security groups to distinguish traffic between the two VCNs.: NSGs filter traffic; they do not resolve ambiguous overlapping address spaces.
  • D. Create the peering first, then use a NAT gateway in each VCN to translate all inter-VCN traffic.: NAT gateways provide outbound translation to the internet and are not the remedy for overlapping peered VCN CIDRs.

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Q: The architect must first correct the VCN address plan before creating the peering relationship. This ensures that the VCNs do not have overlapping CIDR blocks, which is a fundamental requirement for peering. Failure to do so will result in routing conflicts and network connectivity issues. Strong answer: The architect must first correct the VCN address plan before creating the peering relationship.

  • overlapping CIDRs
  • address plan
  • routing conflicts

Caution: This question tests the core understanding of VCN design principles for peering.

Why this matters

Incorrect VCN CIDR planning during peering can lead to significant downtime and data loss. A misconfigured peering relationship causes routing conflicts, preventing communication between the peered VCNs. This results in service outages and lost revenue, directly impacting the company's operational stability and financial performance. The cost of remediation – troubleshooting, reconfiguration, and potential data recovery – adds to the financial burden. This highlights the critical importance of proactive network design and validation.

Objective/domain: Networking architecture and connectivity

Source: Overview of VCNs and Subnets

Question 2 A Standard bucket contains objects that should automatically be deleted 180 days after creation, while previous object versions should be deleted sooner. Which OCI feature should implement this?

Answer choices

  1. A. Create a NAT gateway timeout because NAT sessions can expire Object Storage objects.
  2. B. Create a compartment quota because quotas delete resources once their age exceeds the quota period.
  3. C. Use Object Lifecycle Management with age-based rules for current and previous object versions.
  4. D. Create a DRG import policy because route distributions can delete stale object versions.

Correct answer

Use Object Lifecycle Management with age-based rules for current and previous object versions.

Objective/domain: Storage architecture and data protection

Source: Object Storage Object Lifecycle Management

Question 3 A hub VCN uses a firewall appliance to inspect traffic between two spoke VCNs. Which OCI routing feature is needed to steer spoke-to-spoke traffic through the firewall rather than using only implicit local routing?

Answer choices

  1. A. Disable all route tables in the hub so OCI automatically sends packets through the only firewall VNIC.
  2. B. Use a service gateway because service gateways inspect traffic between private VCN address spaces.
  3. C. Rely on security lists to rewrite the next hop whenever a packet enters the hub subnet.
  4. D. Route intra-VCN and DRG traffic through the firewall private IP or attachment as the next hop.

Correct answer

Route intra-VCN and DRG traffic through the firewall private IP or attachment as the next hop.

Objective/domain: Networking architecture and connectivity

Source: VCN Route Tables

Question 4 Several Linux instances need concurrent POSIX-style access to the same shared directory. Which OCI storage service and access model is the most natural fit?

Answer choices

  1. A. Use OCI File Storage, expose the file system through a mount target and NFS export, and mount it from the clients.
  2. B. Use one Block Volume with ordinary ext4 mounted read/write independently on every instance without clustering.
  3. C. Use Object Storage as a raw POSIX block device attached through iSCSI.
  4. D. Use Archive Storage and mount archived objects directly with the Linux NFS client.

Correct answer

Use OCI File Storage, expose the file system through a mount target and NFS export, and mount it from the clients.

Objective/domain: Storage architecture and data protection

Source: Overview of File Storage

Question 5 A team sees an OCI service metric missing for one resource while peer resources report normally. What is the better first response than immediately scaling the resource?

Answer choices

  1. A. Double the instance size because absent metrics always mean CPU exhaustion.
  2. B. Delete the resource because OCI never resumes metric publication after a single gap.
  3. C. Check the metric namespace, dimensions, time window, and Monitoring configuration first.
  4. D. Create a public IP because Monitoring metrics require internet-routable resources.

Correct answer

Check the metric namespace, dimensions, time window, and Monitoring configuration first.

Objective/domain: Observability, automation, governance, and cost

Source: Overview of Monitoring

Question 6 A custom image was created on an x86 VM, and the team plans to launch it on an Arm-based flexible shape. What should be validated before deployment?

Answer choices

  1. A. Validate only the subnet route table; image architecture is translated automatically by OCI.
  2. B. Validate the cost report because billing data determines whether an image can boot on Arm.
  3. C. Validate that the image and operating system are compatible with the target processor architecture.
  4. D. Validate that the image's security list is stateless, because stateful rules prevent cross-architecture boot.

Correct answer

Validate that the image and operating system are compatible with the target processor architecture.

Objective/domain: Compute, scaling, and resilient application architecture

Source: Changing the Shape of an Instance

Question 7 A policy currently says `Allow group AppTeam to manage all-resources in tenancy`. The team only administers instances in compartment AppProd. What is the most important repair?

Answer choices

  1. A. Keep the policy and add a free-form tag named `LeastPrivilege=true` to the group.
  2. B. Keep the tenancy scope but change `manage` to `inspect`, because instance administration requires only metadata access.
  3. C. Move AppProd into a new VCN because VCN boundaries automatically override excessive IAM policies.
  4. D. Replace the tenancy-wide all-resources grant with permissions limited to the required Compute resource types in compartment AppProd.

Correct answer

Replace the tenancy-wide all-resources grant with permissions limited to the required Compute resource types in compartment AppProd.

Objective/domain: Identity and access management architecture

Source: IAM Security Policies

Question 8 A startup wants an Oracle relational database where Oracle handles provisioning, patching, backups, tuning, and elastic compute scaling with minimal DBA effort. Which service best fits?

Answer choices

  1. A. Use Autonomous AI Database.
  2. B. Use Base Database Service because it requires no database administration and hides all configuration from the customer.
  3. C. Use Oracle NoSQL Database because it provides full Oracle SQL relational compatibility and RAC administration.
  4. D. Use a self-managed compute VM because it removes operating-system and database patching responsibility from the customer.

Correct answer

Use Autonomous AI Database.

Objective/domain: Database architecture, availability, and migration

Source: Key Features of Oracle Autonomous AI Database

Question 9 A team still depends on the old OCI usage-report CSV workflow as if it were the current recommended source in 2026. What should the architect change?

Answer choices

  1. A. Keep the workflow unchanged because usage reports remain the only cost and consumption reporting format.
  2. B. Replace the reports with Monitoring CPU metrics because operational metrics are equivalent to billed usage.
  3. C. Migrate the workflow to current cost reports or Cost Analysis because legacy usage reports were deprecated.
  4. D. Replace the reports with compartment quotas because quotas contain historical line-item costs.

Correct answer

Migrate the workflow to current cost reports or Cost Analysis because legacy usage reports were deprecated.

Objective/domain: Observability, automation, governance, and cost

Source: Cost Reports

Question 10 A workload requires direct access to physical hardware and cannot tolerate a hypervisor layer. Which compute instance type is most appropriate?

Answer choices

  1. A. Select any flexible VM shape because flexible shapes remove the hypervisor.
  2. B. Select a bare metal shape.
  3. C. Select a burstable VM because burstable mode provides direct physical host ownership.
  4. D. Select an instance pool because pools automatically convert VMs into bare metal instances.

Correct answer

Select a bare metal shape.

Objective/domain: Compute, scaling, and resilient application architecture

Source: Compute Shapes

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