Join us at our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Virtual Certification Training to learn the latest in OCI technical features. This training will not only help you enrich your knowledge in deep technical features of OCI, but will also allow a unique chance to hear from the OCI Product Management & Engineering staff that’s pioneering the next generation of cloud at Oracle.
What we will cover:
- During this event, you will engage directly with our OCI Product Team to learn about the latest services available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and how to apply them.
- This technical training will allow architects and engineers to learn how-to’s and shared best practices for how to utilize OCI to build successful, repeatable customer implementations.
- The training will include live hands-on labs and technical sessions on solutions/use cases such as Apps Unlimited / Lift & Shift and Oracle Database migration and automation to prepare your teams to build with OCI.
Why you should attend
After completing this course, you will be prepared to take the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate exam (1Z0-1072-20). and earn your OCI Associate Certification.
This certification provides tangible benefits to help you:
- Stand out amongst cloud professionals by establishing industry capability in world-class technology
- Validate your skills and knowledge on how to develop infrastructure solutions using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Services.
Schedule
Sessions for this virtual training will take place on 22nd, 23rd and 24th September for 2 hours per day.
Session Time: 9.30am to 11:30 am CET
Attendance is required at each session.
Be prepared, and make the most of your time
A little preparation will go a long way. On-line learning is available
here (requires Oracle Partner Network login). Invest a few hours on the Level 100 Foundation Training as pre-event preparation to learn the fundamentals of OCI. The modules can be taken all at once, or split into multiple 20-minutes sessions to allow you to take the training at your pace. An investment in this pre-event training will help you come to the event with a working knowledge of OCI, prepared to dig deeper into concepts and features, and accelerate your learning toward certification.
Registration: This event is restricted to active OPN Members. When registering, you will be asked to login using an Oracle single sign-on account that is registered to an active OPN Company ID. If you do not have an Oracle account that has been registered to your OPN Company ID, please create / setup your account from Oracle Partner Store. Note: Only business email addresses are accepted for event registration.
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May 6
Panel discussion and Q&A
Thomas Kurian, EVP, Oracle
Keynote: Surpassing Expectation with Oracle's Customer Service
Thomas Kurian, EVP, Oracle
Partner Keynote: Offerring Robust Solutions for Today
John FPO Smith, CEO Delloite
May 7
Panel discussion and Q&A
Thomas Kurian, EVP, Oracle
Keynote: Surpassing Expectation with Oracle's Customer Service
Thomas Kurian, EVP, Oracle
Partner Keynote: Offerring Robust Solutions for Today
John FPO Smith, CEO Delloite
May 8
Panel discussion and Q&A
Thomas Kurian, EVP, Oracle
Keynote: Surpassing Expectation with Oracle's Customer Service
Thomas Kurian, EVP, Oracle
Partner Keynote: Offerring Robust Solutions for Today
John FPO Smith, CEO Delloite
May 9
Panel discussion and Q&A
Thomas Kurian, EVP, Oracle
Keynote: Surpassing Expectation with Oracle's Customer Service
Thomas Kurian, EVP, Oracle
Partner Keynote: Offerring Robust Solutions for Today
John FPO Smith, CEO Delloite
Title
Chris Tonas
Vice President, Mobility and Development Tools, Oracle
Biography:
Chris Tonas is Vice President of the Mobility and Development Tools organization at Oracle. Mr. Tonas has spent his career focused on helping developers be more productive, with 18 years at Oracle and more than 20 industry years focused on tools, frameworks, and platform.
Mr. Tonas is responsible for the development and go-to-market for Oracle's Mobile Suite along with the cloud and on-premise Development Tools for the greater Oracle platform. His organization supports the application development efforts of Oracle's customers as well as those for internal teams, like the Oracle Fusion Applications, and participate in numerous open source activities in the Java, Apache, and Eclipse communities.
Vikas Anand
Sr. Director, Integration Products, Oracle
Biography:
Vikas Anand, Sr. Director, Integration Products at Oracle. He leads overall product management & strategy for Oracle SOA Suite and Integration Cloud Service. Mr. Anand leads a team of seasoned Product Managers in charge of Oracle Fusion Middleware integration products:Integration Cloud Service, SOA Suite, BPEL, Service Bus, B2B, Stream Explorer, MFT, API Management, Oracle SOA Suite for Healthcare, Adapters for Cloud and Applications integration etc.
Since joining Oracle in 2003, Mr. Anand has held various positions in product development, product management and strategy positions in different geographies. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Anand has worked in product & project development, and IT in Fortune 100 firms. In these roles he worked across diverse domains like Supply Chain Integration, Sales & Marketing Automation, Global Marketplaces & Industry verticals. He also developed software products as a part of a startup.
Agenda
OCI Certification Readiness – Course Syllabus Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate exam (1Z0-1072-20).
This course is intended to help candidates prepare for the OCI Certified Architect Associate exam. Throughout the 6-lessons series we will cover a series of topics and activities that are closely aligned with the exam. For best results, 100% participation is highly recommended.
Lesson 1
This lesson is covering the fundamentals of security on OCI. We will review Identity and Access Management (IAM) along with basic networking to get started on this journey. Will be talking about Users, Groups, Principles, and Polices, along with the core tenets of virtual network design that will help set the foundations for application deployment. Networking topics include Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN), route tables, CIDR, and Security Lists (SL) / Network Security Groups (NSG).
• Lecture: Identity and Access Management, Virtual Networking
• Activity: IAM Policy Challenge (Appendix B)
• Self-study: Best Practices for Identity and Access Management OCI Security
• Self-study: OCI Security Practices
Lesson 2
Lesson two will take us into setup of compute instances and remote connectivity. We discuss different types of instances; i.e VM and BM and the relevant use cases. Additional networking discussion will include establishing connections using VPN, Fastconnect, and public internet. These are all parts that will help build a highly available application environment.
• Lecture: Connectivity and Compute
o Demo: IPSec VPN Setup
• Activity: Compute and VCN Lab
• Self-Study: Deploying custom OS Images
Lesson 3
As we progress in this journey we need a place to store data. This will be in the form of Object storage which is great for write once, read many scenarios; it also makes a great place for storing backups / archive data. Each instance also needs a place to store data locally; this can be done with local NVMe storage or block volumes. When you have an application that requires shared storage, File Storage service can help solve that requirement.
• Lecture: Block, Object, and File Storage
• Activity: Storage Labs
• Self-study: Block Volume Performance (with Sample FIO commands)
Lesson 4
To build a proper Highly Available architecture you will need all previous items along with what comes this week. Adding a load balancer will help distribute traffic between instances. This also will help in the security of your application be reducing the number of resources visible to the public internet.
• Lecture: Load Balancing
• Activity: Exam Prep – Part 1
• Activity: Load Balancing HOL
• Self-Study: MAA Documentation
Lesson 5
One of the key components of the exam is understanding database and how it fits into the application architecture. This week we will review the variety of database solutions on OCI and discuss key considerations for use with an application.
• Lecture: Database as a Service (DBaaS) and Autonomous Database
• Activity: Practice Exam
• Self-Study: Edge Services and WAF
Lesson 6
The final piece to this puzzle is understanding HA and DR patterns. The big part of this is recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) for the build out. Now that you understand the capabilities of infrastructure building blocks in OCI, we can tie them all together into a durable, application architecture.
• Lecture: Edge Services, HA / DR Patterns
• Activity: Exam Prep – Part 2
• Review Next Steps
Additional Materials & Requirements
Whitepapers and key concepts:
https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/General/Reference/aqswhitepapers.htm
https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/GSG/Concepts/baremetalintro.htm
Exam Guide
IAM Policy Challenge In this challenge you will be presented with a scenario in which you must translate customer requirements into an IAM Solution. This solution will consist of compartments, groups, and policies.
[OPTIONAL] If you would like to share your solution, please email to andrea.marchesini@oracle.com. A sample solution will be provided during the Week 2 session.
Scenario
You have been contacted by a small company requesting help setting up their new OCI tenancy. The company currently has a single application and has requested the ability to create individual environments for Dev, Stage, and Production. The company also has 3 teams, currently:
- DevOps Engineers
- Backend Developers
- Site Reliability Engineers
The DevOps Engineering team should be granted access to create, modify, and delete all resources related to the development environment. This team should also be able to deploy additional resources into the Stage environment, but not delete any resources in Stage. The team will have read-only access to production for auditing and governance.
The Backend developers will need the ability to create new resources in the Development environment. They will have no access to Stage or Production.
The Site Reliability team will have full access to the production environment along with audit capabilities in Development and Staging.
Output
Using the information above, create a simple reference document for how company should address their requirements. You should outline the compartment structure, the groups, and the IAM policies required to satisfy all requirements. For the policies, be sure to state the compartment in which they should be created.