OCI FOUNDATIONS 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔How is total network throughput allocated to a Virtual Machine (VM) instance?
A. When launching a compute instance, customers may select the desired maximum
network bandwidth
B. Each VM is allocated 10 Gbps of network bandwidth regardless of the selected
shape
C. Network bandwidth is variable
D. Network bandwidth is proportional to the number of OCPUs in the instance shape -
✔✔D. Network bandwidth is proportional to the number of OCPUs in the instance shape
✔✔Which purpose does and OCI Dynamic Routing Gateway Serve?
A. Enables OCI compute instances to privately connect to OCI Object Storage
B. Enables OCI compute instances to connect to on-premises environments
C. Enables OCI compute instances to connect to the Internet
D. Enables OCI compute instances to be reached from the Internet - ✔✔B. Enables OCI
compute instances to connect to on-premises environments
✔✔Which security service is offered by OCI?
A. Key Management
B. Managed Active Directory
C. Certificate Management System
D. Managed Intrusion detection - ✔✔A. Key Management
✔✔What is Oracle's responsibility according to the OCI shared security model?
A. Configuring OCI services securely
B. Security of data-center facilities
C. Data classification and compliance
D. Securing application workloads - ✔✔B. Security of data-center facilities
✔✔Which OCI storage service does not provide encryption for data-at-rest?
A. Block Volume
B. File Storage
C. Object Storage
D. Local NVMe - ✔✔D. Local NVMe
✔✔Which OCI Compute shapes does NOT incur instance billing in a STOPPED state?
A. GPU
B. Standard
C. HPC
D. Dense I/O - ✔✔B. Standard
, ✔✔You run four OCI virtual machine instances on an OCI Dedicated virtual host. How
will this deployment be billed?
A. All the four instances will be billed based on the number of OCPU.
B. The dedicated virtual machine host and the boot volumes of each instance will be
billed.
C. The dedicated virtual machine host, all four instances, and the boot volumes of each
instance will be billed.
D. Only the dedicated virtual machine host will be billed. - ✔✔B. The dedicated virtual
machine host and the boot volumes of each instance will be billed.
✔✔Which two situations incur costs within OCI?
A. Data egress to the Internet
B. Transferring data across regions
C. Transferring data from one instance to another within the same Availability Domain
D. Transferring data from one instance to another across different Availability Domains
in a region
E. Data ingress from the Internet - ✔✔A. Data egress to the Internet
B. Transferring data across regions
✔✔Which SLA types is not offered by OCI compute service?
A. Control Plane
B. Service Plane
C. Performance
D. Data Plane - ✔✔B. Service Plane
✔✔My takeaways:
Oracle Functions - multiple questions
Data Safe vs. Data Guard - know the difference
Which is faster - IPSec VPN or FastConnect?
Which three services make up Key Management? - ✔✔-
✔✔ Which of the following is not a core characteristic of cloud computing as defined by
NIST standards?
A. On-demand self-service access
B. Upfront license payments
C. Rapid elasticity
D. Measured services - ✔✔Answer: B
A, C, D are characteristics as defined by NIST; cloud computing enables pay-as-you-
pricing and does not involve paying for licenses upfront.
✔✔Which statement below is NOT correct regarding a highly available system?
A. Highly available systems always involve manual intervention to maintain high
availability.
B. Highly available systems typically have redundant hardware and software
C. Highly availability systems avoid having single points-of-failure
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔How is total network throughput allocated to a Virtual Machine (VM) instance?
A. When launching a compute instance, customers may select the desired maximum
network bandwidth
B. Each VM is allocated 10 Gbps of network bandwidth regardless of the selected
shape
C. Network bandwidth is variable
D. Network bandwidth is proportional to the number of OCPUs in the instance shape -
✔✔D. Network bandwidth is proportional to the number of OCPUs in the instance shape
✔✔Which purpose does and OCI Dynamic Routing Gateway Serve?
A. Enables OCI compute instances to privately connect to OCI Object Storage
B. Enables OCI compute instances to connect to on-premises environments
C. Enables OCI compute instances to connect to the Internet
D. Enables OCI compute instances to be reached from the Internet - ✔✔B. Enables OCI
compute instances to connect to on-premises environments
✔✔Which security service is offered by OCI?
A. Key Management
B. Managed Active Directory
C. Certificate Management System
D. Managed Intrusion detection - ✔✔A. Key Management
✔✔What is Oracle's responsibility according to the OCI shared security model?
A. Configuring OCI services securely
B. Security of data-center facilities
C. Data classification and compliance
D. Securing application workloads - ✔✔B. Security of data-center facilities
✔✔Which OCI storage service does not provide encryption for data-at-rest?
A. Block Volume
B. File Storage
C. Object Storage
D. Local NVMe - ✔✔D. Local NVMe
✔✔Which OCI Compute shapes does NOT incur instance billing in a STOPPED state?
A. GPU
B. Standard
C. HPC
D. Dense I/O - ✔✔B. Standard
, ✔✔You run four OCI virtual machine instances on an OCI Dedicated virtual host. How
will this deployment be billed?
A. All the four instances will be billed based on the number of OCPU.
B. The dedicated virtual machine host and the boot volumes of each instance will be
billed.
C. The dedicated virtual machine host, all four instances, and the boot volumes of each
instance will be billed.
D. Only the dedicated virtual machine host will be billed. - ✔✔B. The dedicated virtual
machine host and the boot volumes of each instance will be billed.
✔✔Which two situations incur costs within OCI?
A. Data egress to the Internet
B. Transferring data across regions
C. Transferring data from one instance to another within the same Availability Domain
D. Transferring data from one instance to another across different Availability Domains
in a region
E. Data ingress from the Internet - ✔✔A. Data egress to the Internet
B. Transferring data across regions
✔✔Which SLA types is not offered by OCI compute service?
A. Control Plane
B. Service Plane
C. Performance
D. Data Plane - ✔✔B. Service Plane
✔✔My takeaways:
Oracle Functions - multiple questions
Data Safe vs. Data Guard - know the difference
Which is faster - IPSec VPN or FastConnect?
Which three services make up Key Management? - ✔✔-
✔✔ Which of the following is not a core characteristic of cloud computing as defined by
NIST standards?
A. On-demand self-service access
B. Upfront license payments
C. Rapid elasticity
D. Measured services - ✔✔Answer: B
A, C, D are characteristics as defined by NIST; cloud computing enables pay-as-you-
pricing and does not involve paying for licenses upfront.
✔✔Which statement below is NOT correct regarding a highly available system?
A. Highly available systems always involve manual intervention to maintain high
availability.
B. Highly available systems typically have redundant hardware and software
C. Highly availability systems avoid having single points-of-failure
