Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cert Prep: Cloud Operations Associate (1Z0-1067-21)

Get an introduction to basic Oracle Cloud Infrastructure concepts and get ready for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Cloud Operations Associate exam.

1. Identity and Access Management

• IAM introduction
• AuthN
• Demo: AuthN
• AuthZ
• Demo: AuthZ
• Common policies
• Compartments
• Demo: Compartments
• Policy inheritance and attachment for compartments
• Conditional policies
• Tag-based access control
• Dynamic groups
• Demo: Dynamic groups
• Federation
• Demo: Federation
• Identity domains
• Demo: Identity domains

2. Security Posture

• What is CSPM?
• Cloud Guard introduction
• Demo: Enable Cloud Guard
• Cloud Guard concepts
• Cloud Guard problems
• Cloud Guard detector recipes
• Cloud Guard responder recipes
• Demo: Cloud Guard
• Cloud Guard notifications
• Security Zones and Security Advisor
• Demo: Security Zones and Advisor

3. Billing and Licensing

• Manage costs with budgets and budget alerts
• Understand cost with Cost Analysis
• Calculate and optimize cost: Compute
• Calculate and optimize cost: Block storage
• Calculate and optimize cost: File storage
• Calculate and optimize cost: Object storage
• Calculate and optimize cost: Networking
• Software licensing models and the OCI Marketplace

4. Service Limits and Compartment Quotas

• View and manage service limits
• Setting resource caps with quotas
• Find and remediate inefficiencies with Cloud Advisor
• Manage multiple tenancies with Organization Management

5. OCI Command Line Interface (CLI) and Software Development Kit (SDK)

• Interacting with OCI: Console, CLI, SDK, and API
• OCI CLI authentication
• OCI CLI authentication demo
• OCI CLI syntax
• OCI CLI examples in the Cloud Shell

6. Resource and Configuration Management

• Resource and configuration management
• Configuration management: Overview
• Ansible with OCI
• Introduction to Terraform
• Terraform configurations
• OCI Resource Manager basics
• Syncing resource manager and infrastructure
• Extending the console

7. Deploy a Monolithic Architecture

• Case study architecture Ruby on Rails Redis PostgreSQL
• VCN deep dive: Gateways and routing
• Demo: Setting up a VCN
• Demo: Stack creation
• VCN creation in Terraform
• VCN deep dive: Access control
• Demo: Securing a VCN
• Compute deep dive: The instance life cycle
• Demo: Provision a compute instance with Terraform
• Compute deep dive: Provisioning and sourcing
• Compute deep dive: Provisioning and sourcing (continued)
• Compute deep dive: Bootstrapping with cloud-init
• Compute deep dive: Fine-tuning with Ansible

8. Secrets and Encryption

• Encryption basics
• Vault introduction, part 1
• Demo: Vault basics, part 1
• Vault introduction, part 2
• Demo: Vault basics, part 2
• Import and export keys
• OCI services integration with Vault
• Demo: OCI services integration with Vault
• Backup and replicate vaults and keys
• Vault secrets
• Demo: Secrets

9. Disaster Recovery

• High availability
• Demo: High availability workshop, part 1
• Demo: High availability workshop, part 2
• Disaster recovery
• Full Stack Disaster Recovery: Overview
• Full Stack Disaster Recovery: Components and Concepts
• Full Stack Disaster Recovery: Requirements
Setting up components and customizing
• Demo: Full Stack Disaster Recovery
Pre-checks and execution
• Demo: Full Stack Disaster Recovery
10. Troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting compute SSH connections
• Troubleshooting compute via console connections
• Demo: Using instance console connections
• Troubleshooting compute via diagnostic interrupts
• Troubleshooting compute performance
• Private connectivity: IPSec VPN and FastConnect
• Testing private connections
• Troubleshooting Load Balancers and backend sets
• Common errors with block storage backups
• Recovering data from block storage
• Troubleshooting shared block volumes
• Resizing block volumes and common errors
• Special considerations for local NVMe storage
• Troubleshooting file storage instances
• Troubleshooting orphaned mount targets
11. Observability and Management
• Introduction to observability
• Monitoring service: Getting started
• Key concepts
• Demo: Monitoring concepts
• Monitoring: Introduction to notification service
• Monitoring: Notification service
• Access and limits
• Service metrics
Service metrics and alarms
• Demo: Monitoring
• Metric queries
Building queries
• Demo: Monitoring
• Manage alarms
• Logging service: Overview
• Fundamental concepts
• Access, search, and explore logs
• Searching logs with queries