Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate (2025)
4h 32mBeginner2025-07-21
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Oracle University
Building Cloud Proficiency on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Course details
In this course, learn Oracle Cloud Infrastructure terminology through lesson slides, videos, demonstrations, hands-on labs, and exams. Learn the basics of OCI, its architecture, and distributed cloud model. Build your understanding of compartments, authentication, and authorization within OCI, and set up a tenancy. Explore VCN introduction, routing, and security, and learn how to implement load balancers within your OCI environment. Dive into the basics of compute instances, scaling strategies, and Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE). Get an introduction to various storage options, and learn about Autonomous Database, MySQL, and other database services in OCI. Dive into Cloud Guard, security zones, encryption basics, and vault services. Plus, learn about pricing, cost management strategies, tagging, and support rewards. This course covers important basics and helps you prepare for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate exam.
Learning objectives
Understand the core concepts and architecture of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Manage identity and access within OCI.
Deploy and manage OCI services like compute, storage, and databases.
Implement security measures and manage costs in OCI.
Learning objectives
Understand the core concepts and architecture of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Manage identity and access within OCI.
Deploy and manage OCI services like compute, storage, and databases.
Implement security measures and manage costs in OCI.
Skills covered
Oracle Cloud InfrastructureCloud AdministrationOracleCloud ServicesNetwork AdministrationCert PrepNetwork and System AdministrationCloud Computing
Concepts
Introduction
- OCI overview
- Introduction
OCI Introduction
- OCI architecture
- Demo - Console walk-through
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- IAM introduction
- Compartments
- Demo - Compartments and identity domains
- AuthN and AuthZ
- Demo - AuthN and AuthZ
- Tenancy setup
Networking
- VCN introduction
- Demo - Create a VCN using the VCN wizard
- VCN routing
- VCN security
- Load balancer
- Demo - Load balancing
Compute
- Compute introduction
- Instance basics
- Demo - Getting started with Cloud Shell
- Demo - Creating a compute instance
- Scaling
- Serverless with Oracle Functions
- Container workloads in OCI
- Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
Storage
- Storage introduction
- Object storage
- Demo - Object storage
- Block volume
- Demo - Block volume
- File storage
Security
- Security introduction
- Cloud Guard
- Security Zones and Security Advisor
- Demo - Security Zone and Security Advisor
- Encryption basics
- Vault
- Demo - Vault
Governance and Administration
- Pricing
- Cost management
- Demo - Cost management
- Demo - Cloud Advisor
- Tagging
- Support rewards
Prepare for OCI Foundations Associate Certification
- Certification exam preparation
- Sample exam questions, part 1
- Sample exam questions, part 2