Introduction The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2019 Architect Professional exam (1Z0-997) exam is designed for individuals who possess strong enterprise knowledge in architecting using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services. This certification validates advanced concepts of OCI services to control infrastructure, such as but not limited to: High Availability and Disaster Recovery, Data Migration, Network Connectivity, Monitoring, Data Retention, Storage and Databases. This certification is available to all professionals that were previously passed the OCI Architect Associate Exam. Target Audience A Solutions Architect Professional: • Design a solution using architectural principles based on customer requirements. • Has a strong understanding of cloud computing concepts • Design and deploy, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on OCI • Translates on-premises operations to a typical cloud based infrastructure. • Works with enterprise level architecture day to day Certification Details • Certification Name: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2020 Architect Professional | 1Z0- 997-20 • Target Audience: Professionals responsible for architecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services • Platform: Available on Oracle University and delivered via Pearson VUE • Exam Duration: 120 minutes • Number of Questions: 50 • Exam Cost: $245 (25% discount on this list price if you are OPN (Oracle Partner Network) and have the OPN number with you while registering for the exam) • Passing Score: 70% Certification Benefits • Stand out amongst world-wide cloud professionals by establishing industry capability in world-class technology! • Validate your skills and knowledge on how to create infrastructure solutions using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Services. • Secure a digital badge for your social media profile to demonstrate your credibility in the industry. Exam Topics This exam is revised regularly to align with training and service release updates. The following table lists the exam objectives, followed by concepts that may be tested in this section. # Objective Concepts possibly tested in section 1 Plan and design solutions in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure This section tests your ability to create basic and complex architectures using multiple services like IAM, Compute, Storage, Load Balancer, Kubernetes and Functions. Also concepts of DR and HA will be applied on this section 1.1 Plan and design solutions to meet business and technical requirements 1.2 Create architecture patterns including N-tier applications, microservices, and serverless architectures 1.3 Design scalable and elastic solutions for high availability and disaster recovery 2 Design, implement and operate databases in OCI This section will evaluate how to design architectures that include databases options like ADW, ATP and DB system on OCI 2.1 Evaluate and implement databases 2.2 Operate and troubleshoot databases 3 Migrate on-premises workloads to OCI This section will cover migration strategies from on-premises to OCI. You need to be familiar with services like Storage Gateway, Data Transfer 3.1 Design strategy for migrating on-premises workloads to OCI 3.2 Implement and troubleshoot database migrations Appliance, Object Storage and Database migration using RMAN and data pump. 4 Implement and operate solutions in OCI 4.1 Implement solutions to meet business and technical requirements This section will evaluate your skills on how to choose the best set of services to deploy new applications on OCI using the core infrastructure services. Also, you need to understand how to troubleshoot the services on event of a problem.