How to study for 1z0-931-21 - Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud 2021 Specialist

 Hi all,

I decided to take all the 2021 OCI exams to check what changed and guide people in the process of taking these certifications.

Well, not all the exams. I will do only the ones that I did in 2019/2020 and are the things that I work on a day-to-day basis 🙂

From 2019 to 2020 exams, the only one that completely changed was the Autonomous Database Exam and I was expecting the same from 2020 to 2021 exams (You can check this by analyzing the exam topics).

I got between 30 to 35 new questions.

Of course, I don't remember the question from the 2020 exam (I did it one year ago), but I didn't remember studying these topics on the new questions before.

You can find everything you need here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/new-become-an-autonomous-database-specialist-2021/35573/91206

New topics for the 2021 version:

  https://education.oracle.com/oracle-autonomous-database-cloud-2021-specialist/pexam_1Z0-931-21

Study:

• Autonomous Dedicated
• Autonomous JSON
• Autonomous Data Guard
• Graph
• Oracle Text
• Data Insights
• Spatial

And last but not least, stay away from Brain Dumps!

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1Z0-1088-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Enterprise Workloads Associate

 Hi all,

I decided to take all the 2021 OCI exams to check what changed and guide people in the process of taking these certifications.

Well, not all the exams. I will do only the ones that I did in 2019/2020 and are the things that I work on a day-to-day basis 🙂

On this test, I was not expecting to see new too many new things and it was the case, I got between 3 to 5 new questions.

Of course, I don't remember the question from the 2020 exam (did it one year ago), but I didn't remember studying these topics before.

The test focus is on how to move Apps to OCI:

• Databases
• WebLogic Applications
• E-business Suite
• JD Edwards
• PeopleSoft 
• Siebel
• Hyperion

You can find the material here:

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/iaas/training/level-50.html

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/iaas/training/foundation.html

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/iaas/training/advanced.html

And here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/new-become-oci-enterprise-workloads-associate-2021/35644/91390

Official Documentation:

https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/home.htm

User guide:

https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/pdf/ug/OCI_User_Guide.pdf

These videos and PDFs are good to understand the test:

Don't forget to read the Study Guide:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/module/exam-preparation-guide-oci-2021-enterprise-workloads-associate/35644/92855

You can find some example of questions here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/module/practice-exam-for-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-2021-enterprise-workloads-associate/35644/92255

And last but not least, stay away from Brain Dumps!

Best of luck

Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1Z0-1084-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer 2021 Associate

Hi all,

I decided to take all the 2021 OCI exams to check what changed and guide people in the process of taking these certifications.

Well, not all the exams. I will do only the ones that I did in 2019/2020 and are the things that I work on a day-to-day basis 🙂

I'm taking the tests after midnight, having two boys, it's the only quiet time at home :)

On this test, I was not expecting to see a lot of new things and it was the case, I got between 2 to 5 new questions.

Of course, I don't remember the question from the 2020 exam (did it one year ago), but I didn't remember studying these topics before.

One interesting thing about his test, if you go to the Oracle official practice test, you will find a lot of questions that you will not find the answer in the Oracle's material/documentation. And the worst part, you can find these answers on AWS, GCP, AZURE, and for my surprise, Alibaba Cloud.

A good start point is here:

https://cloudness.net/oci-developer/

You can find the official course here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/new-become-oci-developer-associate-2021/35644/91486

What you need to focus on?

• Cloud-Native Architecture
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Microservices
• Software Testing

Bloggers and Articles you must read:

https://blogs.oracle.com/author/todd-sharp
https://technology.amis.nl/author/lucas-jellema/
https://www.facebook.com/LAOUC/videos/270000630671650/

Additional material:

https://kubernetes.io/
https://fnproject.io/

But I recommend you to have a free account and test everything you can!

You can find more material here, on the link "Download Exam Resources (ZIP)":

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/iaas/training/developers.html

Don't forget to read the Study Guide:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/module/exam-preparation-guide-oci-developer-2021-associate/35644/92834

You can find some example of questions here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/module/practice-exam-for-oci-developer-2021-associate-certification/35644/92252

And last but not least, stay away from Brain Dumps!

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1z0-1067-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Cloud Operations Associate

 Hi all,

I decided to take all the 2021 OCI exams to check what changed and guide people in the process of taking these certifications.

Well, not all the exams. I will do only the ones that I did in 2019/2020 and are the things that I work on a day-to-day basis 🙂

I'm taking the tests after midnight, having two boys, it's the only quiet time at home :)

On this test, I was not expecting to see new things(Comparing the exam topics with the previous years). But it was not the case, I got between 10 to 15 new questions.

Of course, I don't remember the question from the 2020 exam (did it one year ago), but I didn't remember studying these topics on the new questions before.

The focus for this test is day-to-day activities, you need to know the commands/syntax and not only concepts. Of course, concepts are very important to understand the questions.

What you need to focus on?

• Oci-cli
• Terraform
• Policies
• MQL
• Quotas
• What and how you can move Cross-region
• Budgets and Alerts
• What is related to Compartments and what is related to the Tenancy
• Upload and Download files using the cli and the console
• Tags
• NVMe - Performance and how to protect
• Object Storage life cycle
• VPNs

You can find everything here:

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/iaas/training/operations.html

And here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/new-manage-oci-operations-associate-2021/35644/91519


But I recommend you to have a free account and test everything you can!


These videos and PDFs are good to understand the test:

Exam Preparation: OCI Cloud Operations Associate:

  https://learn.oracle.com/ols/module/exam-preparation-guide-oci-2021-cloud-operations-associate/35644/92830


You can find more material here, on the link "Download Exam Resources (ZIP)":

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/iaas/training/operations.html

Don't forget to read the topics:

https://education.oracle.com/fr/catalogue-de-produits-ouexam-pexam_1z0-1067-21/pexam_1Z0-1067-21

And last but not least, stay away from Brain Dumps!

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1Z0-1085-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2021 Associate

Hi all,

I decided to take all the 2021 OCI exams to check what changed and guide people in the process of taking these certifications.

Well, not all the exams. I will do only the ones that I did in 2019/2020 and are the things that I work on a day-to-day basis 🙂

I'm taking the tests after midnight, having two boys, it's the only quiet time at home :)

Since the Oracle Cloud certifications are valid for 18 months (24 months for other vendors), I was excepting to see a lot of new things on the exam.

Oracle is adding a lot of new features to OCI and it makes sense to have the expiration date, but they need to add new things to the exams. Otherwise, it doesn't make any sense.

From 2019 to 2020 exams, the only one that completely change was the Autonomous Database Exam and looks like it will be the same from 2020 to 2021 exams (You can check this by analyzing the exam topics).

For 1z0-1085-21. you can find the material here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/new-understand-oci-foundations-2021/35644/90993

These videos are great to understand all the changes in OCI since 2019:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/course/whats-new-in-oracle-cloud-infrastructure/35644/65404

Official Documentation:

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/home.htm

User guide:

https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/pdf/ug/OCI_User_Guide.pdf

And last but not least, stay away from Brain Dumps!

Best of luck

Alex Zaballa

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