1Z0-1085-26 Practice Questions 2 — 50 Questions

Question 1

What is the primary function of an OCI NAT Gateway?

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To allow outbound internet access from private subnets without incoming internet access. A NAT Gateway enables instances in a private subnet to initiate outbound connections to the internet while preventing inbound connections from the internet.

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To route private traffic to on-premises data centers

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To provide private access to regional Oracle services

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To allow bidirectional internet access for public instances

Question 2

How do you improve the performance of a block volume attached to a compute instance?

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Change volume performance tier. Changing the performance tier of a block volume (e.g., to Higher Performance) increases IOPS and throughput.

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Add more RAM to instance

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Increase subnets

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Switch to a different VCN

Question 3

A database administrator must establish a high-throughput, highly reliable hybrid connection between an on-premises data center and OCI. The connection must bypass the public internet and guarantee steady throughput with SLA-backed performance. Which networking service combination meets these criteria?

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OCI FastConnect connected to a Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG). OCI FastConnect provides a dedicated, private physical connection between on-premises and OCI, bypassing the public internet, and when paired with a Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG), it enables dynamic routing and high-throughput, SLA-backed hybrid connectivity. This combination meets the requirements for reliability and steady throughput.

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Service Gateway connected to an IPSec VPN

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IPSec VPN connected to an Internet Gateway

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Local Peering Gateway connected to a NAT Gateway

Question 4

You are configuring an OCI Load Balancer and need to distribute traffic based on the URL path (e.g., /api vs /web). Which feature should you configure?

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Path-based Routing. Path-based routing in the Load Balancer allows traffic direction based on URL paths.

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Round Robin Policy

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SSL Termination

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Health Checks

Question 5

Which OCI compute feature allows you to run virtual machines on dedicated physical servers allocated exclusively to your organization?

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Dedicated Virtual Machine Hosts. Dedicated Virtual Machine Hosts in OCI allow you to run virtual machines on dedicated physical servers allocated exclusively to your organization, providing isolation and control over the host. This is ideal for compliance, licensing, or security requirements that mandate dedicated hardware. It is the OCI feature specifically designed for this purpose.

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OCI Container Instances

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Preemptible Instances

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Standard Flexible VM Shapes

Question 6

Which OCI Object Storage tier is optimized for storing active data that requires fast and frequent access with lowest latency?

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Standard Storage. Standard storage tier is the default tier for hot data that is accessed frequently.

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Archive Storage

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Infrequent Access Storage

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Backup Storage Tier

Question 7

An administrator needs to create a custom DNS domain name resolution for instances within an OCI VCN so they can resolve hostnames to internal IP addresses. Which OCI DNS feature should be configured?

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Private DNS Zones. Private DNS Zones in OCI are designed to provide name resolution for internal resources within a VCN, allowing instances to resolve custom hostnames to private IP addresses. They are scoped to one or more VCNs and are not publicly resolvable, ensuring internal DNS queries stay within the virtual cloud network. This is the correct service for custom internal DNS resolution, as opposed to public DNS zones which are for internet-facing domains.

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Virtual Circuit DNS resolver

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Internet Gateway DNS forwarding

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Public DNS Zones

Question 8

A web application experiencing fluctuating traffic needs a compute solution that automatically scales out the number of virtual machine instances based on CPU utilization. Which combination of OCI services should be configured?

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Instance Pools and Autoscaling Configurations. OCI Instance Pools combined with Autoscaling Configurations provide automatic horizontal scaling of VM instances based on metrics like CPU utilization. The Instance Pool manages a group of identical instances, and the autoscaling configuration defines policies (threshold-based or schedule-based) to scale the pool in or out.

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Container Instances and OKE

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Compute Instances and Load Balancer

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Bare Metal Instances and NAT Gateway

Question 9

An administrator needs to create a flexible OCI compute virtual machine instance. Which parameters are required when selecting a flexible compute shape?

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Number of OCPUs and amount of memory (RAM). Flexible compute shapes require specifying the number of OCPUs and the amount of memory (RAM) independently.

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Physical socket count and hypervisor version

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Only the fixed instance shape family name

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Network bandwidth allocation and disk spindle speed

Question 10

You want to organize your OCI resources so that all networking components belong to one administrative boundary, security tools belong to another, and application workloads belong to a third. Which OCI entity is specifically designed to isolate resources for administrative and security delegation?

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Compartments. Compartments are logical partitions within a tenancy used to organize and isolate OCI resources.

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Virtual Cloud Networks

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Identity Domains

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Availability Domains

Question 11

Which TWO of the following gateways can be attached to an OCI Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)? (Choose two.)

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Internet Gateway. The Internet Gateway (A) is a valid OCI VCN gateway that provides bidirectional internet connectivity for resources in a public subnet, enabling inbound and outbound traffic to and from the internet. The Dynamic Routing Gateway (E) is also a valid VCN attachment that provides a path for private traffic between the VCN and external networks such as on-premises networks via FastConnect or IPSec VPN, and between VCNs via peering (local and remote). The other options are not real OCI gateway types: there is no Compute Scaling Gateway (B), no Object Routing Gateway (C), and no Local Storage Gateway (D) in OCI VCN networking; OCI offers Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, Service Gateway, Local Peering Gateway, Dynamic Routing Gateway, and (in some contexts) Remote Peering Connection.

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Compute Scaling Gateway

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Object Routing Gateway

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Local Storage Gateway

Question 12

An administrator needs to create a private network inside a VCN that isolates database servers from the public internet. How should this be structured?

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Create a private subnet with no route to an Internet Gateway. A private subnet with a route table that does not contain a route to an Internet Gateway ensures instances are isolated from inbound public internet traffic.

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Create a public subnet and attach an Internet Gateway

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Disable all security lists globally across the tenancy

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Attach a NAT Gateway with an assigned public IP

Question 13

Which TWO of the following statements accurately describe OCI Availability Domains? (Choose two.)

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Availability domains are connected to each other by a high-bandwidth, low-latency network.. Option A is correct because OCI Availability Domains within a region are interconnected by a dedicated high-bandwidth, low-latency network, which enables low-latency communication between resources in different ADs while still supporting high availability designs. Option C is correct because each Availability Domain is physically isolated from the others, with independent power, cooling, and network infrastructure, so a failure in one AD does not affect the others. Option B is incorrect because Availability Domains are physical data center groupings, not purely logical constructs. Option D is incorrect because a fault domain is a grouping within a single Availability Domain and cannot span multiple ADs. Option E is incorrect because Availability Domains are region-specific and are not shared across distinct OCI regions.

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Availability domains are purely logical constructs with no physical representation.

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A single fault domain can span across multiple availability domains.

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Availability domains are shared across multiple distinct OCI regions.

Question 14

An OCI tenant requires a dedicated, high-speed, private network connection from their on-premises data center to OCI that bypasses the public internet entirely. Which OCI service should be provisioned?

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FastConnect. OCI FastConnect provides dedicated, private, high-bandwidth connections between an on-premises network and OCI.

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Service Gateway

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IPsec VPN

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Internet Gateway

Question 15

Which OCI compute shape is best suited for workloads requiring dedicated physical servers with no virtualization layer or hypervisor overhead?

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Bare Metal Shapes. Bare Metal shapes provide physical servers dedicated solely to your tenancy with zero virtualization overhead.

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Flexible Virtual Machine Shapes

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Preemptible Instance Shapes

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OCI Container Instances

Question 16

A database administrator needs to share a multi-gigabyte Oracle Database backup file stored in an OCI Object Storage bucket with an external auditor who does not have an OCI account. How can this be achieved securely without granting IAM console access?

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Generate a Pre-authenticated Request (PAR) for the specific backup object with an expiration date.. A Pre-authenticated Request (PAR) in OCI Object Storage generates a unique URL that grants time-limited access to a specific object or bucket without requiring the recipient to have an OCI account or IAM credentials. Because the auditor only needs to download a single backup file, creating a PAR scoped to that object with an expiration date provides the least-privilege, secure sharing mechanism. The PAR can also be configured as read-only, ensuring the auditor cannot modify or delete the backup.

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Configure a Service Gateway to allow external IP ranges to access the bucket.

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Make the entire bucket public by modifying the bucket access policy.

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Create a temporary IAM user account with Object Storage Reader permissions.

Question 17

You are troubleshooting a connectivity issue where an on-premises server cannot reach an OCI compute instance over an IPsec VPN tunnel. The security list and NSG rules are verified as correct. What is another common OCI networking configuration that must be checked?

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Ensure the VCN route table has a rule pointing on-premises CIDR to the DRG. The VCN route table must have a rule pointing traffic destined for the on-premises subnet to the Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG).

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Confirm that the subnet has a Service Gateway attached

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Check that the compute instance has a public IP address assigned

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Verify that an Internet Gateway is attached to the VCN

Question 18

Which TWO options are valid methods for organizing and managing infrastructure configuration in OCI? (Choose two.)

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Using OCI Resource Manager to provision and manage Terraform configurations.. Option D is correct because OCI Resource Manager is the managed Terraform service that lets you create, plan, apply, and manage infrastructure-as-code stacks, so it is a valid way to organize and manage infrastructure configuration. Option E is correct because compartments are the fundamental logical containers in OCI used to segment resources and scope IAM policies, making them a core mechanism for organizing and controlling infrastructure. The remaining options are incorrect because Cloud Guard is a security posture service, not a compute deployment tool; Cost Analysis is a billing and usage reporting feature, not an IAM policy authoring tool; and Audit records API activity for compliance, it does not create VCNs.

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Using OCI Cloud Guard to deploy compute instances.

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Using OCI Cost Analysis to write IAM policies.

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Using OCI Audit to create virtual cloud networks.

Question 19

An enterprise customer has a strict regulatory requirement that their database backups must be stored in a geographically distinct location at least 500 miles away from their primary data center, without utilizing the public internet. How can this be accomplished using OCI architecture?

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Configure cross-region bucket replication from the primary OCI region to a secondary OCI region, utilizing Oracle's private network backbone.. OCI cross-region bucket replication copies objects between buckets in different OCI regions over Oracle's private backbone, never traversing the public internet. Because OCI regions are geographically separated (typically hundreds of miles apart), this satisfies both the distance and the no-public-internet requirements. It's the only option that meets both constraints simultaneously.

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Store backups in multiple Fault Domains within the same Availability Domain.

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Export backups via OCI CLI and transfer them manually using external hard drives shipped via courier.

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Upload backups to a public cloud storage bucket over an encrypted IPsec VPN tunnel spanning the public internet.

Question 20

When designing a disaster recovery and high availability architecture across OCI, which TWO strategies help achieve high availability and fault tolerance? (Choose two.)

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Distributing critical application instances across multiple fault domains within an availability domain.. Option D is correct because distributing critical application instances across multiple fault domains within an availability domain provides fault tolerance against hardware failures, since each fault domain has independent power and network infrastructure, so a failure in one fault domain does not affect instances in others. Option E is correct because replicating data and workloads across multiple OCI regions provides disaster recovery and geographic redundancy, protecting against region-wide outages and enabling business continuity through services like OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery, remote replication, and cross-region backups. Option A is incorrect because a single availability domain with no redundancy creates a single point of failure, offering neither high availability nor fault tolerance. Option B is incorrect because placing all instances in a single fault domain concentrates risk, so a fault domain failure would take down the entire workload despite any local communication benefit. Option C is incorrect because creating resources in the root tenancy without compartments is an organizational and access-control anti-pattern that has no bearing on high availability or fault tolerance.

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Relying solely on a single availability domain with no redundancy.

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Placing all database and application instances in a single fault domain for faster local communication.

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Creating all resources in the root tenancy without compartments.