Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate

Course details

Ready to build a solid foundation in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)? This course guides you through the essentials of the OCI platform and prepares you for the OCI Foundations Associate exam. Start with OCI fundamentals, including its architecture, distributed cloud model, compartments, authentication, and authorization, then set up your own tenancy. Explore networking with virtual cloud networks, routing, security, and load balancers, and dig into compute services such as instances, scaling strategies, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE), and serverless Oracle Functions. Discover storage options, including object storage, block volume, and file storage, along with database services like Autonomous Database and MySQL. Finally, strengthen your skills in security with Cloud Guard, security zones, encryption, and vault services, and learn practical cost management strategies for your OCI environment.

Learning objectives
Explain the core concepts and architecture of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Manage identity and access within OCI.
Deploy and manage OCI services, including compute, storage, and databases.
Implement security measures and manage costs in OCI.

Concepts

Introduction

OCI overview
Introduction

OCI Introduction

OCI architecture
Demo - OCI console walk-through

Identity and Access Management

IAM introduction
Compartments
Demo - Compartments and identity domains
AuthN and AuthZ
Demo - AuthN and AuthZ
Tenancy setup

Networking

VCN introduction
Demo - VCN creation using 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
Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
Container workloads in OCI
Serverless with Oracle Functions

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