How to study for 1Z0-997-20 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2020 Architect Professional

Hi all,

A good start point is here:

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

What you need to focus on? 

• EVERYTHING :)

You can find it 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
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/iaas/training/level-300.html

And here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/course/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-architect-professional-workshop/35644/60999

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 free account permits to subscribe to only one region.

These videos and PDFs are good to understand the test:

Exam Preparation: OCI Architect Professional

https://objectstorage.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com/n/ociobtnas/b/webinars/o/webinars-dynamic.html

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

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/iaas/training/architect-professional.html

Don't forget to read the Study Guide:

https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/oci-architect-professional-certification-2020-study-guide.pdf

You can find some example of questions here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/module/practice-exam-for-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-2020-architect-professional/35644/78126

New topics:

• Implement and operate solutions in OCI

1. (NEW for 2020) Conduct Monitoring, observability and alerting in OCI
2. (NEW for 2020) Manage infrastructure using OCI CLI, APIs and SDKs

**Learn Kubernetes

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

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa