Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer Associate Fact Sheet¶

Exam Overview¶

Exam Code: 1Z0-1084-24 (Latest version) Exam Name: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Developer Associate Duration: 90 minutes Questions: 55 questions Question Format: Multiple choice and multiple select Passing Score: 68% Cost: $150 USD (may vary by region) Valid For: 18 months (Oracle typically releases new exam versions annually) Language: English, Japanese Delivery: Pearson VUE (online proctored or testing center)

📖 Official Exam Page - Registration and official details 📖 Certification Overview - OCI Developer certification path 📖 Exam Topics - Detailed exam objectives

Target Audience¶

This certification is designed for: - Application developers deploying cloud-native applications on OCI - DevOps engineers building CI/CD pipelines - Software engineers working with microservices and containers - Full-stack developers leveraging OCI services - Cloud developers migrating applications to OCI

📖 Developer Learning Path - Official Oracle learning path

Exam Domains¶

Domain 1: Cloud Native Fundamentals (10%)¶

Key Topics: - Understanding cloud-native application design principles - Microservices architecture patterns - 12-factor app methodology - Containers and orchestration concepts - DevOps and CI/CD fundamentals

📖 Cloud Native Overview - OCI cloud-native services overview 📖 Microservices Architecture - Microservices best practices 📖 Container Concepts - OCI container services overview

Domain 2: OCI Developer Services (20%)¶

API Gateway¶

• Creating and deploying API gateways
• Configuring routing and authentication
• Request/response transformations
• Rate limiting and throttling
• CORS configuration

📖 API Gateway Overview - Introduction to API Gateway 📖 API Gateway Tasks - Creating and managing gateways 📖 API Gateway Deployments - Deployment configuration 📖 Request Policies - Authentication and rate limiting 📖 CORS Configuration - Cross-origin resource sharing

Resource Manager¶

• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Creating and managing stacks
• Planning, applying, and destroying infrastructure
• Working with configurations and variables
• Using private templates

📖 Resource Manager Overview - IaC on OCI 📖 Creating Stacks - Stack creation and management 📖 Stack Jobs - Plan, apply, destroy operations 📖 Terraform Configuration - Terraform best practices 📖 Private Templates - Using template repositories

Events Service¶

• Creating event rules and patterns
• Event-driven architectures
• Integrating with Functions and Notifications
• Event filtering and routing

📖 Events Service Overview - Event-driven automation 📖 Creating Event Rules - Rule configuration 📖 Event Types - Available event sources 📖 Event Actions - Action types and configuration

Notifications Service¶

• Creating topics and subscriptions
• Publishing messages
• Email, SMS, PagerDuty, Slack integrations
• Alarm notifications

📖 Notifications Overview - Notification service concepts 📖 Managing Topics - Creating topics and subscriptions 📖 Publishing Messages - Message publishing 📖 Subscription Protocols - Email, SMS, webhook protocols

Domain 3: OCI Functions (20%)¶

Functions Fundamentals¶

• Serverless computing concepts
• Function lifecycle and invocation
• Function configuration and context
• Runtime environments (Node.js, Python, Java, Go, Ruby)

📖 Functions Overview - Serverless functions on OCI 📖 Functions Architecture - How Functions work 📖 Supported Runtimes - Available language runtimes 📖 Function Context - Configuration and environment

Creating and Deploying Functions¶

• Setting up Functions applications
• Writing function code
• Local development and testing
• Deploying functions using Fn CLI
• Function versioning

📖 Getting Started - Quick start guide 📖 Creating Applications - Application setup 📖 Creating Functions - Function development 📖 Deploying Functions - Deployment process 📖 Fn CLI - Using the Fn command-line tool

Invoking and Managing Functions¶

• Invoking functions via OCI CLI, SDK, and HTTP
• Function logs and metrics
• Troubleshooting functions
• Function timeouts and memory configuration
• Cold start optimization

📖 Invoking Functions - Invocation methods 📖 Function Logs - Viewing logs 📖 Function Metrics - Monitoring function performance 📖 Troubleshooting - Common issues and solutions 📖 Performance Tuning - Optimizing functions

Function Integration¶

• Triggering functions from Events
• Accessing OCI services from functions
• Using Resource Principals for authentication
• Function chains and workflows
• Integration with API Gateway

📖 Event-Driven Functions - Using Events service 📖 Resource Principals - Secure service access 📖 SDK Integration - Using OCI SDKs in functions 📖 API Gateway Integration - Exposing functions via API

Domain 4: Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) (15%)¶

OKE Fundamentals¶

• Kubernetes concepts and architecture
• OKE cluster types (Basic vs Enhanced)
• Node pools and worker nodes
• Cluster networking
• Kubernetes versions and upgrades

📖 OKE Overview - Introduction to OKE 📖 Kubernetes Concepts - K8s versions and features 📖 Cluster Types - Basic vs Enhanced clusters 📖 Cluster Networking - Network configuration options

Creating and Managing OKE Clusters¶

• Creating clusters using Console, CLI, and Terraform
• Configuring node pools
• Cluster access and kubectl configuration
• Scaling node pools
• Cluster lifecycle management

📖 Creating Clusters - Cluster creation 📖 Node Pools - Managing node pools 📖 Cluster Access - Configuring kubectl access 📖 Cluster Upgrades - Upgrading Kubernetes versions 📖 Cluster Autoscaler - Automatic node scaling

Deploying Applications to OKE¶

• Creating deployments, services, and pods
• ConfigMaps and Secrets management
• Persistent storage with OCI Block Volumes
• Load balancers and ingress controllers
• Helm charts

📖 Deploying Applications - Application deployment 📖 Persistent Storage - Using OCI volumes 📖 Load Balancers - Service load balancing 📖 Ingress Controllers - NGINX ingress setup 📖 Using Helm - Deploying with Helm

Domain 5: Container Registry (OCIR) (10%)¶

Registry Fundamentals¶

• Docker registry concepts
• OCIR regions and endpoints
• Repository organization
• Image tagging and versioning

📖 OCIR Overview - Container registry concepts 📖 Registry Regions - Available regions 📖 Repository Structure - Naming and organization

Working with Container Images¶

• Authenticating to OCIR
• Pushing and pulling images
• Using auth tokens
• Integrating with OKE
• Image vulnerability scanning

📖 Authentication - Docker login to OCIR 📖 Auth Tokens - Creating authentication tokens 📖 Pushing Images - Upload container images 📖 Image Scanning - Vulnerability detection 📖 OKE Integration - Pulling images from OKE

Repository Management¶

• Creating and managing repositories
• Repository access policies
• Image retention policies
• Image immutability
• Repository replication

📖 Creating Repositories - Repository creation 📖 Access Policies - Controlling access 📖 Retention Policies - Managing image lifecycle 📖 Image Immutability - Preventing tag overwrites

Domain 6: DevOps Services (15%)¶

OCI DevOps Overview¶

• CI/CD pipeline concepts
• DevOps projects and artifacts
• Build and deployment pipelines
• Integration with source control

📖 DevOps Overview - OCI DevOps service 📖 DevOps Concepts - Key concepts 📖 Getting Started - Setup guide

Code Repositories¶

• Creating and managing repositories
• Branch protection rules
• Pull requests and code reviews
• Repository triggers

📖 Code Repositories - Git repositories on OCI 📖 Creating Repositories - Repository setup 📖 Branch Rules - Protecting branches 📖 Triggers - Automating builds

Build Pipelines¶

• Creating build specifications
• Build stages and steps
• Build artifacts
• Build parameters and environment variables
• Integration with external Git providers

📖 Build Pipelines - CI pipeline creation 📖 Build Specifications - build_spec.yaml format 📖 Build Stages - Stage configuration 📖 Build Parameters - Using parameters 📖 External Connections - GitHub, GitLab integration

Deployment Pipelines¶

• Creating deployment pipelines
• Deployment strategies (rolling, blue-green, canary)
• Deployment to OKE
• Deployment to Functions
• Deployment to Compute instances

📖 Deployment Pipelines - CD pipeline creation 📖 Deployment Types - OKE deployments 📖 Blue-Green Deployment - Zero-downtime deployments 📖 Canary Deployment - Gradual rollout 📖 Function Deployment - Deploying serverless functions

Artifact Registry¶

• Storing build artifacts
• Container image artifacts
• Generic artifacts
• Artifact repositories

📖 Artifacts - Managing artifacts 📖 Container Artifacts - OCIR integration 📖 Generic Artifacts - Generic artifact storage

Domain 7: Observability and Monitoring (10%)¶

Logging Service¶

• Log types (audit, service, custom)
• Log groups and log objects
• Creating custom logs
• Log search and analysis
• Log retention

📖 Logging Overview - Logging service concepts 📖 Service Logs - OCI service logs 📖 Custom Logs - Application logs 📖 Log Search - Searching and filtering logs 📖 Log Analytics - Advanced log analysis

Monitoring Service¶

• Metrics and namespaces
• Creating alarms
• Alarm notifications
• Custom metrics
• Metrics queries

📖 Monitoring Overview - Monitoring service 📖 Metrics - Available metrics 📖 Creating Alarms - Alarm configuration 📖 Custom Metrics - Publishing custom metrics 📖 Query Language - Metrics query syntax

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)¶

• APM domains and data keys
• Distributed tracing
• Application monitoring
• Synthetic monitoring
• APM SDKs

📖 APM Overview - Application monitoring 📖 APM Domains - Domain configuration 📖 Distributed Tracing - Request tracing 📖 APM Agents - Language agents

Domain 8: Storage and Database Services for Developers (10%)¶

Object Storage¶

• Bucket management
• Object lifecycle policies
• Pre-authenticated requests
• Multipart uploads
• Object versioning

📖 Object Storage Overview - Object storage concepts 📖 Managing Buckets - Bucket operations 📖 Pre-authenticated Requests - Temporary access URLs 📖 Lifecycle Policies - Automated object management 📖 Multipart Upload - Large object uploads

Autonomous Database¶

• Provisioning Autonomous Database
• Connecting to database
• Database wallets
• APEX and SQL Developer Web
• REST APIs (ORDS)

📖 Autonomous Database - ADB overview 📖 Provisioning - Creating databases 📖 Connecting - Connection methods 📖 Database Wallets - Secure connections 📖 ORDS - REST-enabled SQL

NoSQL Database¶

• Creating tables
• Data types and indexing
• Consistency models
• SDK usage for NoSQL operations

📖 NoSQL Database - NoSQL service 📖 Creating Tables - Table creation 📖 Data Operations - CRUD operations 📖 SDK Usage - Programming with NoSQL

Streaming Service¶

• Creating streams
• Publishing and consuming messages
• Stream pools
• Kafka compatibility

📖 Streaming Overview - Streaming service 📖 Creating Streams - Stream creation 📖 Publishing Messages - Producing messages 📖 Kafka Compatibility - Using Kafka APIs

Domain 9: Security and Identity (10%)¶

IAM for Developers¶

• Users, groups, and policies
• Dynamic groups
• Resource principals
• Instance principals
• Policy syntax for developers

📖 IAM Overview - Identity and access management 📖 Dynamic Groups - Identity for resources 📖 Resource Principals - Function authentication 📖 Instance Principals - Compute authentication 📖 Policy Writing - IAM policy syntax

Secrets and Key Management¶

• Vault service
• Managing secrets
• Encryption keys
• Using secrets in applications
• Key rotation

📖 Vault Overview - Key and secret management 📖 Managing Secrets - Secret operations 📖 Encryption Keys - Key management 📖 Using Secrets - Retrieving secrets 📖 Key Rotation - Key rotation strategies

Network Security¶

• Security lists and network security groups
• WAF (Web Application Firewall)
• Certificates management
• SSL/TLS configuration

📖 Security Lists - Subnet-level firewalls 📖 Network Security Groups - Resource-level firewalls 📖 WAF - Web application firewall 📖 Certificates - Certificate management

Hands-On Skills¶

Command-Line Tools¶

OCI CLI: 📖 OCI CLI Installation - Installing OCI CLI 📖 CLI Configuration - Configuring CLI 📖 CLI Command Reference - Complete command reference

Fn CLI (Functions): 📖 Fn CLI Setup - Installing Fn CLI 📖 Fn Commands - Function commands

kubectl (Kubernetes): 📖 kubectl Installation - Installing kubectl 📖 kubectl Reference - Command reference

Docker: 📖 Docker Installation - Installing Docker 📖 Docker CLI - Docker commands

Required Practical Experience¶

1. Deploy a multi-tier application to OKE with load balancer
2. Create and deploy serverless functions with event triggers
3. Build CI/CD pipelines using OCI DevOps
4. Configure API Gateway with authentication and rate limiting
5. Implement Infrastructure as Code with Resource Manager
6. Push and pull container images to/from OCIR
7. Configure logging, monitoring, and alarms
8. Use Resource Principals and Instance Principals for authentication
9. Work with Object Storage, Autonomous Database, and NoSQL
10. Debug and troubleshoot applications using logs and metrics

📖 OCI Free Tier - Always Free resources for practice 📖 Hands-On Labs - Oracle Learning Library 📖 Developer Solutions - Reference architectures

Official Study Resources¶

Documentation and Learning¶

📖 OCI Documentation - Complete OCI documentation 📖 Developer Learning Path - Official training 📖 OCI Architecture Center - Reference architectures 📖 Developer Tools - Developer services overview

Training Courses¶

📖 Oracle University - Official OCI training 📖 Cloud Coaching - Free expert-led webinars 📖 Oracle Learning YouTube - Video tutorials

Practice and Certification¶

📖 Practice Exams - Official practice tests 📖 Certification Benefits - Digital badge and benefits 📖 Pearson VUE - Schedule exam

Study Strategy¶

Recommended Timeline (6-8 weeks)¶

Weeks 1-2: Foundations - Complete Oracle Learning Path modules 1-3 - Set up OCI Free Tier account - Practice with OCI CLI - Understand cloud-native concepts

Weeks 3-4: Core Services - Deep dive into Functions, OKE, and OCIR - Complete hands-on labs for each service - Build sample applications - Practice with API Gateway

Weeks 5-6: DevOps and Integration - Study DevOps services - Build CI/CD pipelines - Work with Events and Notifications - Implement monitoring and logging

Weeks 7-8: Review and Practice - Take practice exams - Review weak areas - Complete reference architectures - Final exam preparation

Key Study Tips¶

1. Hands-on practice is essential - Don't just read, build applications
2. Use OCI Free Tier - All core services are available for practice
3. Focus on Functions and OKE - These are heavily tested
4. Understand CI/CD - DevOps services are a significant portion
5. Know the CLI - Many questions test CLI command knowledge
6. Practice troubleshooting - Understand common errors and solutions
7. Review IAM policies - Understand resource principals and dynamic groups
8. Build real projects - Create a portfolio of OCI applications

Common Question Patterns¶

• Scenario-based: Given a requirement, choose the best architecture
• CLI commands: Select the correct command for a task
• Troubleshooting: Identify the cause of errors
• Best practices: Choose optimal configurations
• Service selection: Pick the right service for use cases

Exam Day Tips¶

Preparation¶

• Review key documentation links
• Practice with sample questions
• Get adequate rest before exam
• Prepare ID and testing environment (for online exams)

During the Exam¶

• Read questions carefully - watch for keywords like "most", "least", "best"
• Eliminate obviously wrong answers first
• Flag uncertain questions for review
• Manage time - ~1.6 minutes per question
• Don't overthink - trust your hands-on experience

Technical Setup (Online Proctoring)¶

• Stable internet connection (minimum 2 Mbps)
• Webcam and microphone
• Clear desk workspace
• Government-issued photo ID
• Chrome or Firefox browser

After Certification¶

Career Opportunities¶

• OCI Application Developer
• Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Kubernetes Developer
• Serverless Solutions Architect
• Full-Stack Cloud Developer

Next Certifications¶

📖 OCI Architect Associate - Architecture focus 📖 OCI Architect Professional - Advanced architecture 📖 OCI DevOps Professional - DevOps specialization

Continuous Learning¶

• Attend Oracle CloudWorld
• Join Oracle Developer Community
• Contribute to open-source OCI projects
• Stay updated with new service releases
• Build and share reference architectures

📖 Oracle Developer Community - Developer resources 📖 OCI Blogs - Latest updates 📖 OCI Release Notes - Service updates

Quick Reference Tables¶

Service Endpoints by Region¶

📖 Regions and Availability Domains - Region details

Common CLI Commands¶

# Functions
fn create app myapp
fn deploy --app myapp
fn invoke myapp myfunc

# OKE
oci ce cluster create --name mycluster
oci ce cluster create-kubeconfig --cluster-id <id>
kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml

# OCIR
docker login <region-key>.ocir.io
docker tag myimage:latest <region-key>.ocir.io/<tenancy>/<repo>:tag
docker push <region-key>.ocir.io/<tenancy>/<repo>:tag

# DevOps
oci devops project create --name myproject
oci devops repository create --name myrepo
oci devops build-pipeline create --name mybuild

📖 CLI Quick Start - Getting started with CLI

Final Notes¶

• Certification valid for: 18 months from pass date
• Exam updates: Oracle typically releases new versions annually
• Practice environment: OCI Free Tier provides ample resources
• Support: Use OCI Community Forums for questions
• Badge: Digital badge provided upon passing

📖 Exam Registration - Register for the exam 📖 Certification FAQ - Common questions

Good luck with your OCI Developer Associate certification! 🎉