Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (2025): Hands-on Workshop

Module 01: Course Overview

• Course Speakers
• For Whom is This Course Intended?
• Course Outline
• Measuring Your Progress: Skill Checks
• Get the Answers You Need: “Ask Your Instructor” & OU Community
• Best Practices and Retention Tips

Module 02: Identity and Access Management (IAM) Overview

• Introduction
• What is OCI IAM?
• OCI IAM: Authentication (AuthN)
• OCI IAM Components
• OCI IAM Summary
• OCI IAM Identity Domains
• What are IAM Identity Domains?
• Identity Domains Overview
• Identity Domains Use Cases
• Identity Lifecycle Management
• IAM with Identity Domains
• Identity Domain Types

Module 03: IAM Basics

• Managing OCI IAM Identity Domains
• Default Identity Domain
• Dos and Don’ts for Administrator Users
• Creating Identity Domains
• Why Multiple Identity Domains are Needed
• Demo: Creating Identity Domains
• Demo: Creating Groups
• Managing Groups
• Default Groups in Identity Domains
• Creating Users
• Managing Users
• User Lifecycle Management
• Demo: Creating Users and Groups
• Administrator Roles
• Understanding Administrator Roles
• Types of Administrator Roles
• Assigning Administrative Roles (Demo)
• Policies
• Subjects, Actions, Placement Clauses
• Demo: Policies
• Compartments
• Resource Compartments & Access
• Nested Compartments
• Compartment Quotas: Syntax, Examples, Policy Types
• Budgets

Module 04: IAM Advanced

• Policy Inheritance and Attachment
• Demo: Policy Inheritance
• Conditional Policies & Examples
• Demo: Creating Users
• Enforce Least Privilege: Advanced Policies
• Permissions Example
• Tag-Based Access Control (Demo)
• Dynamic Groups (Scenario & Demo)
• Network Sources (Demo & Scenario)
• Resource Principals: Patterns
• Infrastructure, Stacked, Ephemeral Principals
• Optimizing IAM Policies
• Eliminating Duplicates
• Consolidating Group Membership
• Combining Policy Statements
• Object-Level Granular Access Control for OCI Object Storage
• Object IAM Policy Examples

Module 05: Expert Tip 1

Module 06: Networking – Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)

• CIDR Block Prefixes
• VCN Overview & Components
• Subnets
• Types of Subnets
• Demo: Create VCN (Manual & Wizard)
• Route Tables
• Route Rules & Target Types
• Demo: Route Tables
• Gateways
• Internet Gateway (Demo)
• NAT Gateway (Demo)
• Service Gateway (Demo)
• Public & Private Subnets (Demo)
• VCN Security
• Network Security Groups (NSG), Stateful & Stateless Rules (Demo)
• Security Lists (Demo)

Module 07: Networking – IP Management

• IP Management Overview
• Private IPs
• Public IPs & Types
• Reserved Public IP
• Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP)
• Benefits & Workflow
• Public IP Pools
• Demo: IP Management

Module 08: Networking – Connectivity

• VCN Connectivity Options
• Local vs. Remote Peering
• Local Peering (LPGs & Upgraded DRG) Demo
• Remote Peering Connection & Across Regions Demo
• BGP Basics & Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG)
• DRG Attachments, Route Tables & Distributions
• Demo: Dynamic Routing Gateway
• Site-to-Site VPN
• Overview, Use Cases, CPE, Tunnel Modes, Demo
• FastConnect Overview
• Concepts, Connectivity Models
• Oracle Partner, Third-Party Provider & Colocation Setups
• FastConnect Redundancy & Best Practices
• Demo: FastConnect

Module 09: Expert Tip 2

Module 10: Networking – Load Balancer

• OCI Load Balancing Service Overview
• Load Balancer Concepts & Shapes
• Content-Based Routing (Host & Path-Based)
• Load Balancing Policies: Round Robin, Least Connections, IP Hash
• Health Checks
• Public Load Balancers
• Regional & AD-Specific Subnets Demo
• Private Load Balancers (Demo)
• Network Load Balancers (Demo)
• Web Application Acceleration Overview
• Use Cases & Concepts
• Demo: Web Application Acceleration

Module 11: Networking – DNS Management

• What is DNS?
• Domain Name System (DNS) Introduction
• OCI DNS Capabilities & Benefits of OCI Public DNS
• DNS Service Components
• OCI DNS Management
• Zones
• Public DNS Zone (Demo)
• Private DNS Zone (Demo)
• Choices for DNS in VCN
• Private Views
• HTTP Redirects
• Traffic Management
• Components & Policy Types
• Steering Policy Types & Use Cases
• Demo: Failover Policy, Load Balancer Policy, Geolocation Steering Policy

Module 12: Networking – Network Command Center

• Network Command Center Overview
• Inter-Region Latency (IRL)
• OCI Global Locations & IRL Dashboard
• Current Round-Trip Time
• Use Cases
• Demo: Inter-Region Latency
• Network Path Analyzer (NPA)
• Features & Scenarios
• Demo: Network Path Analyzer
• Network Visualizer
• Architecture Overview
• Use Cases
• Demo: Network Visualizer
• Capture Filters (VTAP Capture Filter Overview)
• Rules, Actions, Examples
• Demo: Capture Filters
• Virtual Test Access Points (VTAP)
• Components, Source & Target
• Use Cases
• Demo: Virtual Test Access Points

Module 13: Expert Tip

Module 14: Compute – Basics

• Overview of Compute Service
• OCI Compute Service Features
• Platform and Custom Images
• Instance Images: Platform & Custom
• Import/Export & Bring Your Own Image (BYOI)
• Compute Shapes
• Flexible Shapes, GPU Shapes (VM GPU, BMGPU)
• Bare Metal vs VM vs Dedicated Hosts
• Demo: Generate SSH Keypair
• Demo: Launch & Connect to Oracle Linux and Windows Instances
• Demo: Create Custom Image
• Capacity Types
• Preemptible Instances (Demo)
• Capacity Reservations (Demo)
• Dedicated VM Hosts (Demo)

Module 15: Compute – Advanced

• Burstable Instances
• Supported Shapes, Examples, Demo
• Vertical Scaling (Demo)
• Compute Autoscaling
• Instance Configurations & Pools
• Configuring Autoscaling (Demo)
• Oracle Cloud Agent
• Oracle OS Management Hub (OSMH)
• Architecture, Dashboard, Benefits, Components, Policies
• Supported OS Platforms
• Lifecycle Environments & Management Station
• Demo: Run Command
• Instance Console Connections (Demo)
• Infrastructure Maintenance
• VM Relocation & Live Migration
• Shielded Instances (Demo)
• Confidential Computing
• Supported Shapes & Benefits

Module 16: Object Storage – Basics

• Overview of Object Storage & OCI Storage Services
• Object Storage Resources & Endpoints
• Demo: Create Bucket, Upload Objects, Manage Visibility
• Multipart Uploads
• Console, CLI, Multipart Upload API (Demo)
• Object Storage Tiers & Auto-Tiering (Demo)
• Object Lifecycle Management
• Lifecycle Policy Rules & Filters
• Demo: Update Storage Tier via Lifecycle Management

Module 17: Expert Tip

Module 18: Object Storage – Advanced

• Object Storage Replication (Demo)
• Object Versioning (Demo)
• Retention Rules
• Types, Lock, Time-Bound & Indefinite (Demo)
• Object Copy (Demo)
• Object Storage Logging (Demo)
• Securing Object Storage
• Initial & Routine Security Tasks
• Pre-Authenticated Requests (Demo)
• Customer Managed Keys (Demo)
• Object Re-encryption & Automation

Module 19: Block Storage – Basics

• Overview of Block Volume & OCI Storage Services
• Features, Use Cases, NVMe SSD Devices
• Volume Attachment Types (iSCSI vs Paravirtualized)
• Boot Volumes & Custom Boot Volumes
• Troubleshooting & Demo: Block Volume Creation & Attachments
• Block Volume Performance
• Performance Levels & Autotuning

Module 20: Block Storage – Advanced

• Resizing Volumes (Online & Offline) (Demo)
• Block Volume Backups & Restore (Demo)
• Block Volume Clones (Demo)
• Cross Region & Cross Availability Domain Replication (Demo)
• Volume Groups & Encryption (Demo)

Module 21: File Storage – Basics

• Overview of File Storage & OCI Storage Services
• Use Cases & Service Features
• Mounting a File System (Demo)
• NFS Export Options (Demo)
• File System Paths & Export Paths

Module 22: File Storage – Advanced

• File System Snapshots (Demo: Create & Restore)
• File System Cloning (Demo)
• In-Transit Encryption (Demo)
• File System Replication (Demo)
• File Storage Security
• Usage and Metering
• Snapshot & Clone Metered Utilization

Module 23: Expert Tip