OCI ARCHITECT EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS AND PRACTICE
SOLUTION GRADED A+
◉ Bronze Policy -.
Answer: "• Monthly Incremental Backups
• Runs first day of the month
• Retained for 12 months
• Includes full backup (runs on Jan 1st)
• Full backups maintained for 5 years."
◉ Bucket Access -.
Answer: "Can be made public for file sharing (Read object data, List
Objects, Retriee object metadata
Pre authorized URL can be created for individual access
IAM Policy setup for more secure bucket access"""
◉ Bucket Name Rqmts -.
Answer: "Letters, Numbers, Dashes, Periods, Upper/Lower, unique
within the namespace or tenant"
◉ Bucket Types -.
,Answer: "Default - Standard
Archive is a 2nd option."
◉ Buckets -.
Answer: "Elastic, only pay for what you use.
Inifinite amount of data
1,000's of buckets per account
Unlimited objects per bucket
Up to 10TB Files
Multiple copies of each object in multiple AD"
◉ Bulk Operations in Object Storage -.
Answer: "• Uploading files in a directory and all its subdirectories to
a bucket
• Downloading all objects, or all the objects that match a specified
prefix, in a bucket
• Deleting all objects, or all the objects that match a specified prefix,
in a bucket"
◉ Can I use Terraform to manage both Oracle Public Cloud and
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure? -.
Answer: YES
,◉ CLI — Command Line Interface -.
Answer: "You can get help for any command using — help, -h, or -?.
(oci os bucket -h)
The CLI is built on Python (version 2.7.5 or 3.5 or later), running on
Mac, Windows, or Linux.
Services supported: Audit | Core Services (Networking, Compute,
Block Volume) | Database | IAM | Object Storage | Load Balancing
oci <service> <type> <action> <options>
( compute is the <service> instance is the resource <type> launch is
the <action>, and the rest of the command string consists of
<options> )"
◉ Colocation with Oracle -.
Answer: "Move your equipments or existing Oracle cloud DC's
• 2 physical connections in the co-location to our equipment (Circuit
redundant but not DC redundant)
• 2 physical connections in the co-location to our equipment plus a
partner provided connection to a second ""Fast Connect"" location
within the region (Circuit redundant and DC redundant)"
◉ Common Object Storage Scenarios -.
Answer: "Big Data/Hadoop Support
Content Repository
, Archive/Backup
Log Data
Large Data Sets"
◉ Compartments -.
Answer: "Logical container used to organize and isolate cloud
resources; each resource is in exactly one compartment
Compartments are global and logical; distinct from physical
'containers' like Regions and Availability Domains
Resources can be connected/shared across compartments
Compartments can be renamed (but not deleted or moved)
Currently, compartments are only one level deep, but in future, will
be hierarchical (permissions in a parent comparment inherited by
child compartmetns)"
◉ Compute -.
Answer: Bare Metal and Virtual Machines
◉ Compute Instance Launch -.
Answer: "Choose a Compartment
Name the instance
Choose an AD
Specify image source and OS
TESTED QUESTIONS AND PRACTICE
SOLUTION GRADED A+
◉ Bronze Policy -.
Answer: "• Monthly Incremental Backups
• Runs first day of the month
• Retained for 12 months
• Includes full backup (runs on Jan 1st)
• Full backups maintained for 5 years."
◉ Bucket Access -.
Answer: "Can be made public for file sharing (Read object data, List
Objects, Retriee object metadata
Pre authorized URL can be created for individual access
IAM Policy setup for more secure bucket access"""
◉ Bucket Name Rqmts -.
Answer: "Letters, Numbers, Dashes, Periods, Upper/Lower, unique
within the namespace or tenant"
◉ Bucket Types -.
,Answer: "Default - Standard
Archive is a 2nd option."
◉ Buckets -.
Answer: "Elastic, only pay for what you use.
Inifinite amount of data
1,000's of buckets per account
Unlimited objects per bucket
Up to 10TB Files
Multiple copies of each object in multiple AD"
◉ Bulk Operations in Object Storage -.
Answer: "• Uploading files in a directory and all its subdirectories to
a bucket
• Downloading all objects, or all the objects that match a specified
prefix, in a bucket
• Deleting all objects, or all the objects that match a specified prefix,
in a bucket"
◉ Can I use Terraform to manage both Oracle Public Cloud and
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure? -.
Answer: YES
,◉ CLI — Command Line Interface -.
Answer: "You can get help for any command using — help, -h, or -?.
(oci os bucket -h)
The CLI is built on Python (version 2.7.5 or 3.5 or later), running on
Mac, Windows, or Linux.
Services supported: Audit | Core Services (Networking, Compute,
Block Volume) | Database | IAM | Object Storage | Load Balancing
oci <service> <type> <action> <options>
( compute is the <service> instance is the resource <type> launch is
the <action>, and the rest of the command string consists of
<options> )"
◉ Colocation with Oracle -.
Answer: "Move your equipments or existing Oracle cloud DC's
• 2 physical connections in the co-location to our equipment (Circuit
redundant but not DC redundant)
• 2 physical connections in the co-location to our equipment plus a
partner provided connection to a second ""Fast Connect"" location
within the region (Circuit redundant and DC redundant)"
◉ Common Object Storage Scenarios -.
Answer: "Big Data/Hadoop Support
Content Repository
, Archive/Backup
Log Data
Large Data Sets"
◉ Compartments -.
Answer: "Logical container used to organize and isolate cloud
resources; each resource is in exactly one compartment
Compartments are global and logical; distinct from physical
'containers' like Regions and Availability Domains
Resources can be connected/shared across compartments
Compartments can be renamed (but not deleted or moved)
Currently, compartments are only one level deep, but in future, will
be hierarchical (permissions in a parent comparment inherited by
child compartmetns)"
◉ Compute -.
Answer: Bare Metal and Virtual Machines
◉ Compute Instance Launch -.
Answer: "Choose a Compartment
Name the instance
Choose an AD
Specify image source and OS
