Oracle Certifications
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Prepare for Oracle certifications with scenario-based practice exams. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services — Identity and Access Management, networking and Virtual Cloud Networks, compute and storage, databases, observability and security, and high availability and disaster recovery — plus the Oracle Certified Professional Java SE developer track (Java SE 25), all explained in plain English with real-world architecture and code scenarios.
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Recommended Path
Start with OCI Foundations, then Architect Associate, and advance to Architect Professional and specialty tracks (Developer, Security, Networking, Data Science, Generative AI); for Java developers, the Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 25 Developer.
Beginner / Fundamentals
2 certsCloud Infrastructure 2026 Foundations Associate
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2026 Foundations Associate exam (1Z0-1085-26) — OCI distributed cloud, regions and availability domains, the core Compute, Networking, and Storage services, the shared security model with IAM and OCI security services, and OCI pricing, cost management, and support.
Cloud Infrastructure 2026 AI Foundations Associate
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2026 AI Foundations Associate exam (1Z0-1122-26) — the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, generative AI and large language models, and the OCI AI portfolio including OCI AI Services and the OCI Generative AI service with Oracle Database 23ai AI Vector Search.
Associate / Intermediate
2 certsCloud Infrastructure 2026 Architect Associate
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2026 Architect Associate exam (1Z0-1072-26) — Identity and Access Management with identity domains and policies, Networking with VCNs and connectivity, Compute shapes and scaling, Object/Block/File Storage, Oracle databases and Autonomous Database, and Observability and Management.
AI Database SQL Associate
Master the Oracle AI Database SQL Associate exam (1Z0-171) — Oracle Database 23ai SQL: writing SELECT queries with filtering and sorting, single-row / conversion / aggregate functions, joins across multiple tables, subqueries and the SET operators, DML and transaction control, DDL with constraints, views, sequences, synonyms and indexes, controlling user access with GRANT/REVOKE, and the data dictionary plus time-zone datatypes.
Expert / Professional
12 certsCloud Infrastructure 2026 Developer Professional
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2026 Developer Professional exam (1Z0-1084-26) — cloud-native fundamentals and microservices, containerization with Docker, OCI Container Registry (OCIR) and Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), serverless development with Oracle Functions, API Gateway, Streaming, Events and Queue, testing and securing apps with OCI Vault, and monitoring, logging and tracing for cloud-native applications.
Cloud Infrastructure 2026 DevOps Professional
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2026 DevOps Professional exam (1Z0-1109-26) — DevOps principles and microservices, containerization with Docker, OCIR and OCI Container Instances, infrastructure as code with Terraform and OCI Resource Manager, the OCI DevOps service with Code Repositories, Build and Deployment Pipelines, Artifacts and deployment strategies, Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), DevSecOps with OCI Vault and image signing, and monitoring and observability with OCI Monitoring, Logging and Events.
Cloud Infrastructure 2026 Security Professional
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2026 Security Professional exam (1Z0-1104-26) — the OCI shared security responsibility model and defense in depth, Identity and Access Management with identity domains, policies, dynamic groups and federation, network and infrastructure security with Security Lists, NSGs, Zero Trust Packet Routing and Network Firewall, application and data security with WAF, Certificates, Vault/KMS and Data Safe, cloud security posture with Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vulnerability Scanning and Bastion, and security operations with Audit, Logging, Events and Service Connector Hub.
Cloud Infrastructure 2026 Networking Professional
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2026 Networking Professional exam (1Z0-1124-26) — Virtual Cloud Network design and IPv4/IPv6 addressing, gateways and route tables, OCI Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer, public and private DNS with Traffic Management steering, hybrid connectivity with Dynamic Routing Gateways, FastConnect and Site-to-Site VPN, transitive routing, network security with Network Firewall, WAF and Zero Trust Packet Routing, workload migration connectivity, and network troubleshooting.
Cloud Infrastructure 2026 Data Science Professional
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2026 Data Science Professional exam (1Z0-1110-26) — building, training, deploying and operating machine-learning models on the OCI Data Science service with the Accelerated Data Science (ADS) SDK, Oracle AutoML, the Model Catalog and Model Deployments, Jobs and ML Pipelines, OCI Generative AI and LangChain, and end-to-end MLOps.
OCI Observability Professional
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2026 Observability Professional exam (1Z0-1111-26) — monitoring OCI workloads end to end with the OCI Observability & Management suite: Monitoring with MQL and alarms, Notifications, Events, Connector Hub, Logging, Logging Analytics with Cluster and Link analysis, Application Performance Monitoring with distributed tracing, Real User Monitoring and Availability Monitoring, and Stack Monitoring.
OCI Cloud Operations Professional
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2026 Cloud Operations Professional exam (1Z0-1067-26) - running OCI environments day to day: deploying with Resource Manager and the OCI CLI, configuring with Ansible and cloud-init, optimizing cost with Budgets, Compartment Quotas, Cloud Advisor and Resource Scheduler, ensuring reliability with instance-pool autoscaling and Full Stack Disaster Recovery, managing identity and security with IAM policies, Vault and dynamic groups, and implementing observability with alarms, logging, OS Management Hub and troubleshooting.
Agentic AI for Oracle AI Database Professional
Master the Agentic AI for Oracle AI Database Professional exam (1Z0-1159-26) — building AI agents, RAG, and semantic search INSIDE Oracle Database 23ai and Autonomous AI Database: the VECTOR data type and in-database embeddings, VECTOR_DISTANCE metrics with HNSW and IVF vector indexes, retrieval-augmented generation with DBMS_VECTOR_CHAIN, Select AI Agents via DBMS_CLOUD_AI_AGENT, the Autonomous Database MCP Server, and Private Agent Factory governance.
Cloud Infrastructure 2026 Architect Professional
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2026 Architect Professional exam (1Z0-997-26) — architecting high availability and disaster recovery with Full Stack DR, cloud-native solutions on OKE, Functions and API Gateway, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Resource Manager, Base Database and Autonomous Database design, security with IAM, Vault, Network Firewall and WAF, hybrid and multicloud architectures with FastConnect, OCI-Azure Interconnect, Oracle Database@Azure and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, workload and database migration, and observability with Monitoring, Logging and APM.
Autonomous AI Database Professional
Master the Oracle Autonomous AI Database Professional exam (1Z0-931-26) — provisioning and managing Autonomous Database Serverless and Dedicated, ECPU scaling and lifecycle, performance tuning with Automatic Indexing and Performance Hub, security with Oracle Data Safe and TDE, the integrated Database Actions tools, Select AI, AI Vector Search, MCP server integration, unified converged-data analytics, and migration with Data Pump, Zero Downtime Migration, and GoldenGate.
Java SE 25 Developer Professional
Master the Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 25 Developer exam (1Z0-831) — object-oriented programming with classes, records, sealed types, interfaces and enums; core language mechanics, text blocks and the Date-Time API; flow control with pattern-matching switch; exception handling and try-with-resources; the Java I/O and NIO.2 file APIs; arrays, collections, sequenced collections and generics; streams, lambdas and the new Stream Gatherers; concurrency with virtual threads, executors and scoped values; and the module system, compact source files, instance main methods and localization — all on the Java SE 25 LTS.
OCI Enterprise AI Professional
Master the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Enterprise AI Professional exam (1Z0-1158-26) - large language models, agentic AI, Enterprise AI Models, OCI Responses API agents and tools, hosted agent deployments, governance, guardrails, observability, and cost optimization.
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