That's a wrap - OCI Certifications 2021

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. 🙂

And all done 🥳

Here, you can find a list of links to help you achieve these certifications:

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

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/06/how-to-study-for-1z0-1085-21-oracle.html

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

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/06/how-to-study-for-1z0-1067-21-oracle.html

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

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/06/how-to-study-for-1z0-1084-21-oracle.html

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

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/06/how-to-study-for-1z0-1088-21-oracle.html

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

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/06/how-to-study-for-1z0-931-21-oracle.html

How to study for 1z0-1094-21 - Oracle Cloud Database Migration and Integration 2021 Specialist

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/08/how-to-study-for-1z0-1094-21-oracle.html

How to study for 1Z0-1089-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 HPC and Big Data Solutions Associate

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/08/how-to-study-for-1z0-1089-21-oracle.html

How to study for 1Z0-1072-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Architect Associate

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/09/how-to-study-for-1z0-1072-21-oracle.html

How to study for 1z0-1076-21 - Oracle Cloud Platform Systems Management 2021 Specialist

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/10/how-to-study-for-1z0-1076-21-oracle.html

How to study for 1z0-1070-21 - Oracle Cloud Platform Identity and Security Management 2021 Specialist

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/10/how-to-study-for-1z0-1070-21-oracle.html

How to study for 1Z0-997-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Architect Professional

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/10/how-to-study-for-1z0-997-21-oracle.html

How to study for 1Z0-1093-21 - Oracle Cloud Database Services 2021 Specialist

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/10/how-to-study-for-1z0-1093-21-oracle.html

How to study for 1Z0-1104-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security 2021 Associate

http://alexzaballa.blogspot.com/2021/11/how-to-study-for-1z0-1104-21-oracle.html

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

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1Z0-1104-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security 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. 🙂

Some questions on this new exam are very similar to 1z0-1070-21!

Not sure what they will do in the future, I think if Oracle is planning to maintain both exams, these exams should be more specific on some topics.

A good start point is here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/become-a-cloud-security-associate/35644/101088

Reading the Official documentation is always a plus for the exams:

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Security/Concepts/security_guide.htm

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Security/Concepts/security_overview.htm

I also recommend you to take a deep look at network features, peering, NSGs, SLs, connectivity, and how they relate to security. Don't forget to go deep on Vault, Keys, Secrets, etc.

10 minutes before I sat down for my exam, I found they published the practice questions.

So, no time for a try! And then, I'm not sure if these questions will help on the exam :)

But it's always good to take a look:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/module/practice-exam-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-security-associate-certification/35644/101629

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

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1Z0-1093-21 - Oracle Cloud Database Services 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. 🙂

This exam is completely new and harder than 1z0-998-20/1z0-1044-20!

A good start point is here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/become-an-oracle-cloud-database-services-specialist/35644/91401

I recommend you to have a free account and test everything you can, especially NoSQL and MYSQL (much more focus on the 2021 version).

Exam Preparation: 

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/course/prepare-for-oracle-database-cloud-services-2021-specialist-certification/35644/97129

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

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1Z0-997-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Architect Professional

 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. 🙂

A lot of new and very well elaborated questions on this exam!

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/

and 2021 exam version:

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

What do you need to focus on? 

• EVERYTHING :)

You can find it here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/become-oci-architect-professional/35644/97984

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.

Exam Preparation: OCI Architect Professional

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/course/prepare-for-oci-architect-2021-professional-certification/35644/98019

You can find some examples of questions here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/module/practice-exam-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-architect-professional-certification/35644/98021

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

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1z0-1070-21 - Oracle Cloud Platform Identity and Security Management 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 🙂

A good start point is here:

https://medium.com/@arunksingh16/oracle-cloud-platform-identity-and-security-management-notes-7edbda93c5d5

You can the pdfs and videos here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/become-a-cloud-security-administrator/35644/38707

Here you can find some sample questions (official sample questions):

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/course/prepare-for-oci-identity-and-security-management-2021-specialist-certification/35644/99092

Oracle Official Documentation:

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

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/index.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/identity-cloud/index.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/casb-cloud/index.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/KeyManagement/Concepts/keyoverview.htm

For the 2021 version, study hard Cloud Guard and Security Zones!

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/cloud-guard/using/index.htm

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/security-zone/using/security-zones.htm

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

Topics:

https://education.oracle.com/oracle-cloud-platform-identity-and-security-management-2021-specialist/pexam_1Z0-1070-21

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

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1z0-1076-21 - Oracle Cloud Platform Systems Management 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 🙂

The best start point is here:

http://courtneyllamas.com/omc-resources/

Some great blog posts:

https://medium.com/@nassyambasha

https://talesfromthedatacenter.com/category/oracle-managment-cloud/

You can find the pdfs and videos here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/become-an-oracle-management-cloud-administrator/35644/91205

Oracle Official Documentation:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/management-cloud/index.html

Before taking the test, make sure you fully understand the difference between:

• Application Performance Monitoring
• Infrastructure Monitoring
• IT Analytics
• Log Analytics
• Configuration and Compliance
• Security Monitoring and Analytics

Understand the difference between Oracle Management Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Understand the Agent types and Deployments.

On the 2021 version, be prepared for questions related to Peoplesoft. I don't remember even study this topic before :)

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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How to study for 1Z0-1072-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Architect 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 🙂

The questions on this exam are completely new and very well elaborated.

About the new exam process, it was much easier than PearsonVue.

I decided to take this exam today at 12:00 PM and I was able to schedule for 2:30 PM.

Here, you can find a step by step of the registration and what to expect on the exam:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/course/prepare-for-oci-architect-2021-associate-certification/35644/97447

https://blogs.oracle.com/oracleuniversity/post/guide-to-getting-oci-certified-for-free

You can find the material here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/become-an-oci-architect-associate/35644/98012

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

You can find some examples of questions here:

 

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/module/practice-exam-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-architect-associate-certification/35644/97449

Right after the exam, even seeing that I was approved, accessing the ULS, I got this:

I was afraid to have any issue with the result. But after 30 minutes, I got this:

You can access the certview.oracle.com to see your result:

The score report is also new:

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

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1Z0-1089-21 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 HPC and Big Data Solutions 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 things (comparing the exam topics with the previous one). 

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 on the new questions before.

You can find the material here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/new-become-oci-hpc-big-data-solutions-associate-2021/35644/91385

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

You can find some examples of questions here:

 

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/course/prepare-for-oci-hpc-and-big-data-solutions-associate-certification-2021/35644/91382

If you did this exam last year, try to focus on Oracle Data Science and learn these new concepts.

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

Best of luck

Alex Zaballa

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How to study for 1z0-1094-21 - Oracle Cloud Database Migration and Integration 2021 Specialist

Hi all,

This is a new exam and it's great to test your knowledge.

I have the impression that this exam was different from the previous tests.

This exam privileges the knowledge acquired on a daily basis much more than the knowledge acquired in preparation for the test.

On this preparation material, I missed having something about how to analyze the workload of environments before migration and how this impacts the decision of choosing the shape and type of service to be used in the Cloud.

It's also missing some checks you have to do before work in a big production migration.

And I think they should share more about Cloud Premigration Advisor Tool.

Since I created mig360 and I'm working on Cloud migration projects, the "regular" database migration topics on this test are ok.

For ZDM topics, I think I should have tested more. 

The material for this exam is not sufficient. 

For sure you will need some real-world experience to clear most of the questions ZDM related.

About the ODI topics, It was very deep (much more than I expect).

Even working on environments that I have to deal with ODI every day, A lot of questions are difficult to answer if you are not an ODI Developer.

About the preparation, you can find everything you need here:

https://learn.oracle.com/ols/learning-path/become-an-oracle-cloud-database-migration-and-integration-specialist-2021/35573/92250

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

Best of luck
Alex Zaballa

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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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How to study for Google Professional Data Engineer (GCP)

 Hi all,

Some people were asking me how to study for Google Professional Data Engineer certification!

The first place to go is: https://cloud.google.com/certification/data-engineer

Make sure you achieve 100% on sample questions before seat to take the exam.

This book is a great starting point to understand the GCP concepts: https://www.amazon.com/Official-Google-Certified-Professional-Engineer/dp/1119618436

I also did this course: https://googlecourses.qwiklabs.com/

I'm not a fan of Udemy (because most of the sample questions there are DUMPS), but this course from Dan Sullivan is great: 

https://www.udemy.com/course/google-cloud-professional-data-engineer-get-certified/

This link has all the official documentation separated by subject and by GCP Certification.

The youtube channel "AwesomeGCP" is very good to understand the logic of the question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UOX2R-xf8I&list=PLQMsfKRZZviSLraRoqXulcMKFvIXQkHdA

https://www.credential.net/profile/alexzaballa/wallet

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

Best of luck

Alex Zaballa

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