How to study for 1z0-1067-23 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Cloud Operations Professional

Hi everyone,

I decided to take all the 2023 OCI exams to check what changed and guide people in taking these certifications.

Well, not all exams. I will do only the ones that I did in 2019 to 2022 and are the things that I work on a day-to-day basis 🙂

This test has a new format, with hands-on questions. Which is great in my opinion :)

After the hands-on, you will need to answer 15 questions (same as previous exam format).

On this test, I expected to see some new things(comparing the course topics with the previous years). And that's true, I got a lot of new questions.

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 do 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://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/learning-path/become-a-oci-cloud-operations-professional-2023/122065

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

I hope Oracle is planning to allow us to download the PDFs again because the online reader is really bad. From 0 to 10, the usability of this tool is -1, especially on mobile devices.

Don't forget to read the topics:

https://education.oracle.com/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-2023-cloud-operations-professional/pexam_1Z0-1067-23

The practice exam is good and you can have a good feel of what to expect during the exam.

If you are not finding available slots until September/30, just keep trying.

They keep adding slots and this is the answer that I got after opening an SR (Thanks Mónica Godoy for the tip):

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

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1Z0-997-23 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Architect Professional

Hi everyone,

I decided to take all the 2023 OCI exams to check what changed and guide people in taking these certifications.

Well, not all exams. I will do only the ones that I did in 2019 to 2022 and are the things that I work on a day-to-day basis 🙂

This test has a new format, with hands-on questions. Which is great in my opinion :)

After the hands-on, you will need to answer 14 questions (same as previous exam format).

On this test, I expected to see some new things(comparing the course topics with the previous years). And that's true, I got a lot of new questions.

A good starting point is here:

https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/learning-path/become-a-oci-architect-professional-2023/122238

What do you need to focus on? 

• EVERYTHING :)

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

But I recommend you to have a free account and test everything you can! The biggest problem will be testing cross-region features because a free account allows subscribing to only one region.

On ULS, you can also find some examples of questions and they are very helpful in understanding what to expect on the real test. You can see the demos for the hands-on labs.

Take an extra look at the Azure integration with OCI.

These 2 blog posts from Simo are great for understanding the exam(they are still relevant for the 2023 exam):

https://www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2019/11/28/how-i-studied-for-the-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-2019-certified-architect-professional-1z0-997/

2021 exam version:

https://www.thatfinnishguy.blog/2021/09/17/passing-the-oci-certified-architect-professional-2021-1z0-997-21/

Extra tip: Don't be Alex and waste some precious time. Remember to set the correct network on the Cloud Shell console. It will help you with testing :)

If you are not finding available slots until August/31, just keep trying.

They keep adding slots and this is the answer that I got after opening an SR (Thanks Mónica Godoy for the tip):

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

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1Z0-1042-23 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Application Integration Professional

Hi everyone,

I decided to take all the 2023 OCI exams to check what changed and guide people in taking these certifications.

Well, not all exams. I will do only the ones that I did in 2019 to 2022 and are the things that I work on a day-to-day basis 🙂

A good starting point is here:

https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/learning-path/become-a-application-integration-professional-2023/122249

I hope Oracle is planning to allow us to download the PDFs again because the online reader is terrible. From 0 to 10, the usability of this tool is -1, especially on mobile devices.

Some of the content of this test is not in the videos or PDFs, this is why it's always good to read the OCI Official documentation.

Don't forget to read the topics:

https://education.oracle.com/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-2023-application-integration-professional/pexam_1Z0-1042-23

The practice exam is good and you can have a good feel of what to expect during the exam.

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

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

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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