This course prepares students with strong foundational knowledge in architecting infrastructure using OCI services, and get them ready for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate Certification.

• OCI Introduction: OCI Overview; OCI Architecture

• Identity and Access Management (IAM); Policy Inheritance and Attachment for compartments; Conditional Policies; Advanced Policies; Tag-Based Access Control; Dynamic Groups

• Networking: VCN Intro; CIDR; VCN Basics; Security Lists and NSG; VNICs and IP Addressing in Virtual Cloud Networking; Private IP addresses; Public IP addresses; BYOIP

• Local and Remote Peering; Transit Routing; DRG Enhancements; VCN Connectivity; VPN Connect; FastConnect; Domain Name System; Public DNS Zones; Private DNS Zones; Traffic Management

• Load Balancer Concepts; Public and Private Load Balancer; Load Balancer Policies, Health Checks; Network Visualizer; Inter-region Latency Dashboard

• Compute; Image Options - Import/Export, BYOI, Custom Image; Auto Scaling; OS Management; Preemptible Instances; Burstable Instance; VM Migration; Capacity Reservations; Dedicated VM Hosts;

• Block Storage; Performance Tier; Backup and restoration; Resizing a block volume; Volume Groups; Boot Volumes; Cloning; Cross-region volume replication; Attaching a volume to multiple instances

• Object Storage: Auto Tiering; Managing Access and Authentication; Object Storage Lifecycle Management; Object Storage Replication; Object Storage Versioning; Object Storage Retention Rules; Object Storage Logging

• File Storage: File Storage Security; Snapshots and Cloning

• Database: Autonomous Concepts; Autonomous Database Administration; Provision an Autonomous Database; Connecting to the Autonomous Database; ADB Backups and Recovery; Securing Autonomous Database; Monitoring Autonomous Database;ADB Cloning; Database Concepts; Creating a Database System; Managing DB Systems; Oracle Data Guard; Securing the Database Systems; MySQL on OCI; NoSQL on OCI

• Security: Cloud Guard; Demo: Cloud Guard; Security Zones and Security Advisor; Vulnerability Scanning; Vault; Vault Deep Dive; Vault Secrets; Web Application Firewall WAF; Bastion

• Observability and Management: Monitoring; Logging; Logging Analytics; Events Service; Operations Insight; Application Performance Monitoring