Are you preparing for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2025 Architect Associate Exam? Me too. 🙂
Whether you are just starting your cloud journey or leveling up your OCI skills, the 2025 Architect Associate exam is designed to test your understanding of core OCI services across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and more. It is about knowing how to build and manage scalable, secure, high-performing infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
In this guide, I have broken down everything you need to know and mapped it directly to Oracle’s official documentation.
The following table lists the exam objectives and their weightings.
| Objectives | % of Exam |
| Compute | 20% |
| Networking | 35% |
| Storage | 25% |
| Identity and Access Management | 20% |
Reminder – Oracle courses are free: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/learning-path/become-an-oci-architect-associate-2025/147631
Last year, when I was studying for the 2024 version of the exam without any prior knowledge of OCI, I only used the online course and the official documentation to pass the exam.
Good luck! 🙂
1. Compute
- Select Appropriate Compute Choices
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/computeshapes.htm - Configure Compute Instances
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/Tasks/launchinginstance.htm - Configure Autoscaling
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/Tasks/autoscalinginstancepools.htm - Describe OCI Compute Image Options
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/Tasks/managingcustomimages.htm - Describe and Configure OS Management
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/os-management/home.htm - Explain Infrastructure Maintenance
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/infrastructure-maintenance.htm
2. Networking
- Implement and Manage Virtual Cloud Networks
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Tasks/managingVCNs.htm - Describe Public and Private Subnets
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Tasks/managingVCNs.htm#subnets - Describe Public and Private IPs and VNICs
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Tasks/managingVNICs.htm - Configure Routing and Gateways
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Tasks/managingroutetables.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Resources/Assets/whitepapers/learn-routing-in-oci-networking-with-examples.pdf - Configure Security Lists and NSGs
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Concepts/securitylists.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Concepts/networksecuritygroups.htm
3. VCN Connectivity
- Evaluate VCN Connectivity Options
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Tasks/Overview_of_VCNs_and_Subnets.htm - Configure Site-to-Site VPN
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Tasks/overviewIPsec.htm - Describe FastConnect
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Concepts/fastconnect.htm - Configure Local and Remote Peering
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Tasks/localVCNpeering.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Tasks/remoteVCNpeering.htm - Implement Transit Routing
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Tasks/transitrouting.htm
4. DNS and Traffic Management
- Describe Public and Private DNS Zones
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/DNS/Concepts/dnszonemanagement.htm - Configure Traffic Management Policies
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/TrafficManagement/Concepts/overview.htm
5. Load Balancing
- Describe and Configure Load Balancers and NLBs
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Balance/Concepts/balanceoverview.htm - Implement Web Application Acceleration
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/web-app-acceleration/overview.htm
6. Network Command Center Services
- Analyze Inter-Region Latency
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Concepts/inter_region_latency.htm - Use Network Visualizer
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Concepts/network_visualizer.htm - Troubleshoot with Network Path Analyzer
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Concepts/path_analyzer.htm - Implement Capture Filters and vTAPs
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Concepts/capture-filters.htm
7. Storage
Block Storage
- Overview
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Block/Concepts/overview.htm - Performance Tiers
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Block/Concepts/blockvolumeperformance.htm - Deploy Block and Boot Volumes
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Block/Tasks/creatingbootvolume.htm - Volume Groups, Backups, Clones
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Block/Concepts/volumegroups.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Block/Tasks/cloningavolume.htm - Cross-Region Replication
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Block/Tasks/blockvolumereplication.htm
Object Storage
- Overview and Tiers
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Concepts/objectstorageoverview.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Tasks/usingstoragetiers.htm - Security and Access
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Concepts/objectstorageoverview.htm - Versioning, Lifecycle, Retention
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Tasks/usingversioning.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Tasks/usinglifecyclepolicies.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Tasks/usingretentionrules.htm - Multipart Uploads
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Tasks/usingmultipartuploads.htm - Replication
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Tasks/usingreplication.htm
File Storage
- Overview and Setup
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/File/Concepts/filestorageoverview.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/File/Tasks/creatingfilesystems.htm - Security and Access
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/File/Tasks/managingmounttargets.htm - Snapshots and Clones
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/File/Tasks/managingsnapshots.htm - Monitoring and Replication
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/File/Concepts/FSutilization.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/File/Tasks/FSreplication.htm
8. Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Core Concepts
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Concepts/overview.htm - Domains, Users, Groups, Compartments
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Tasks/managingusers.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Tasks/managingcompartments.htm - IAM Policies
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Concepts/policysyntax.htm - Dynamic Groups, Network Sources, Tags
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Tasks/managingdynamicgroups.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Tasks/managingnetworksources.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Tagging/Tasks/managingtagsandtagnamespaces.htm
