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Identity And Access Management

This domain covers OCI Identity and Access Management: users, groups, dynamic groups, compartments, policies, and Identity Domains. Questions present concrete administrative scenarios and ask you to pick the correct policy statement, delegation workflow, or federation step. Expect syntax-level policy questions plus conceptual items on Identity Domains and IDCS federation with OCI.

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What to know about Identity And Access Management

Be able to read a scenario and write or select the exact OCI policy statement: correct verb (inspect/read/use/manage), resource-type, and compartment scope. The single most important thing is precise policy syntax and correct compartment scoping.

Writing correct OCI policy statements with verb, resource-type, and compartment scope

Granting read-only access using 'inspect' versus 'read' verbs on Object Storage buckets

Delegating compartment creation via 'manage compartments' on tenancy or parent compartment

Federating Oracle Identity Cloud Service groups to OCI and mapping them to policies

Watch out for

Common Identity And Access Management exam traps

  • ▸Confusing 'inspect' with 'read': inspect lists resources but does not read contents or metadata, so it fails read-only data access requirements.
  • ▸Scoping a policy to the wrong compartment or omitting 'in compartment' clauses, which silently grants access at tenancy level or nowhere.
  • ▸Assuming IDCS groups automatically receive OCI permissions; you must map federated groups to OCI policies explicitly.

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1

Which TWO best practices should be followed when designing OCI IAM policies? (Choose two.)

Medium
2

Your company uses Compute instances deployed across various departments to access OCI Object Storage buckets. Instead of storing API keys on the instances, you decide to use Instance Principals. Which of the following components is NOT required to configure Instance Principals for this workflow?

Medium
3

An administrator needs to write a policy that grants a group read-only access to all databases across the tenancy. Which resource type should be specified in the policy?

Medium
4

Which THREE actions occur or are required when migrating an OCI compartment containing resources to a new parent compartment? (Choose three.)

Hard
5

You are designing a cross-tenancy architecture where Tenancy A needs to allow a specific group from Tenancy B to manage Object Storage buckets in a specific compartment within Tenancy A. What mechanism must be established in Tenancy A to enable this?

Hard
6

Which TWO pieces of information are required when configuring an OCI IAM Identity Provider for SAML federation? (Choose two.)

Easy
7

Which TWO statements are true regarding the behavior of dynamic groups and instance principals? (Choose two.)

Hard
8

Which THREE attributes can be evaluated in an OCI dynamic group matching rule for compute instances? (Choose three.)

Hard
9

What is the function of the OCI IAM 'inspect' verb?

Easy
10

Your security team has implemented a policy that restricts access to Object Storage to requests originating from a specific dynamic group. However, a developer test script fails with a 403 Forbidden error even though the script runs on an instance in that dynamic group. Upon inspecting audit logs, you find that the API call was made using user credentials rather than instance principals. Why did the authorization fail?

Hard
11

Which verb grants the most comprehensive set of permissions (inspect, read, use, and manage) on a given resource type in an OCI IAM policy?

Easy
12

Which TWO options are valid ways to organize resources in OCI? (Choose two.)

Easy
13

Which THREE statements are true about OCI federation with SAML 2.0 Identity Providers? (Choose three.)

Medium
14

When configuring federation with an external Identity Provider (IdP) such as Microsoft Azure AD or Okta using SAML 2.0, which THREE tasks must be completed in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure? (Choose three.)

Hard
15

What is the primary function of OCI IAM federation?

Easy
16

Your organization has a requirement to allow users from a trusted partner company to authenticate to your OCI tenancy using Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) as the Identity Provider. Which component must be configured first in OCI before setting up the federation trust relationship?

Hard
17

An administrator wants to ensure that users belonging to the 'Contractors' group can only access OCI resources during normal business hours (Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM). Which policy feature should be used?

Medium
18

What is the primary purpose of an OCI API signing key?

Easy
19

Which THREE actions can be performed on compartments in OCI? (Choose three.)

Medium
20

Which THREE conditions can be evaluated using conditional clauses in OCI IAM policies? (Choose three.)

Medium
21

Which TWO actions can an OCI administrator perform on user accounts? (Choose two.)

Easy
22

What is required for a human user to authenticate programmatically against OCI using the CLI, SDKs, or API?

Easy
23

What is the primary purpose of OCI compartments?

Easy
24

An administrator needs to grant a group of database administrators the ability to manage Autonomous Databases in a specific compartment named DevComp. Which policy syntax is the most secure and adheres to the principle of least privilege?

Easy
25

Which TWO statements are true about OCI IAM compartments? (Choose two.)

Easy
26

Which OCI service is responsible for managing users, groups, compartments, and policies?

Easy
27

An auditor needs to verify all IAM policies across your entire tenancy to ensure compliance. Which policy statement allows a user in the 'Auditors' group to read all policies in the tenancy root?

Medium
28

An administrator needs to create a new root compartment under the tenancy to separate billing and administrative resources for a newly acquired subsidiary. Where must the administrator perform this action in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console?

Easy
29

What is the primary function of an OCI dynamic group?

Easy
30

Which THREE tools or methods can be used to write and apply OCI IAM policies? (Choose three.)

Medium
31

Which TWO methods can be used to authenticate human users to the OCI Console? (Choose two.)

Easy
32

What happens to the resources inside a compartment when you delete the compartment itself?

Easy
33

An administrator wants to enforce strict access control based on resource metadata. They decide to use Tag-Based Access Control. Which of the following defines the correct prerequisite structure required before you can write a policy using tag values?

Easy
34

Which THREE statements are true regarding OCI IAM groups? (Choose three.)

Medium
35

Which THREE actions can an administrator perform to secure user accounts in OCI IAM? (Choose three.)

Medium
36

Which TWO types of groups exist in OCI IAM? (Choose two.)

Easy
37

What is the scope of an OCI IAM policy by default when it is created in the root compartment (tenancy)?

Easy
38

Your security policy states that users must enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to access production compartments. How can you enforce MFA for specific users in OCI IAM?

Hard
39

What is the function of the OCI IAM 'read' verb compared to 'inspect'?

Easy
40

You are configuring identity federation with an enterprise SAML 2.0 Identity Provider. After mapping the external IdP groups to OCI IAM groups, users successfully log in via SSO but receive an authorization error (404/Not Authorized) when trying to view any resources. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
41

Which of the following describes an OCI user group?

Easy
42

Which TWO statements are true regarding OCI IAM policy syntax scoping rules? (Choose two.)

Hard
43

An administrator needs to grant read-only access to all Object Storage buckets within a specific compartment named 'DataLake'. Which policy statement accomplishes this?

Medium
44

Your organization wants to grant an external team of auditors read-only access to a specific compartment named FinanceAudits without creating individual IAM users for each auditor. You decide to use identity federation with a SAML 2.0-compliant Identity Provider (IdP). Which of the following steps is NOT required to achieve this?

Medium
45

What is the primary function of OCI Identity Domains?

Easy
46

Your organization uses Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) federated with OCI. You need to assign an existing IDCS group named 'NetworkAdmins' to manage Virtual Cloud Networks in OCI. What is the proper workflow to achieve this?

Medium
47

An administrator wants to delegate compartment creation to a group of team leads named 'TeamLeads' without granting them full tenancy administrator privileges. Which policy statement achieves this?

Medium
48

What is the primary function of an OCI IAM policy statement?

Easy
49

Which TWO default resource types are available in every new OCI tenancy? (Choose two.)

Easy
50

Which TWO resource types can be managed using OCI IAM policies? (Choose two.)

Easy
51

An administrator wants to allow a group of developers to view and manage Event Service rules and notifications. Which resource types should be used in the IAM policy?

Medium
52

You are troubleshooting a federated user login issue where users authenticate successfully through your corporate SAML IdP, but upon redirection to OCI, they encounter an error stating that no matching user account or group mapping exists. What is the most likely misconfiguration?

Hard
53

Which TWO statements are true regarding OCI Identity Domains? (Choose two.)

Hard
54

When you create a new OCI tenancy, what is the name of the default top-level compartment created automatically by Oracle?

Easy
55

Which TWO of the following are valid verbs used in OCI IAM policy statements? (Choose two.)

Easy
56

Which TWO statements are true regarding OCI IAM policy evaluation behavior? (Choose two.)

Hard
57

Which TWO components are required when defining an OCI dynamic group matching rule for compute instances? (Choose two.)

Easy
58

Your team needs to allow a group of developers to read logs in the Logging service across all compartments, but you want to ensure they cannot modify or delete any logging resources. Which of the following IAM policy verbs should you use?

Medium
59

An administrator needs to allow a group of developers to create and manage File Storage Service (FSS) file systems and mount targets in a compartment named 'FSCompartment'. Which policy statement is correct?

Medium
60

You are troubleshooting a complex policy evaluation in your tenancy. There are multiple overlapping policies defined at both the tenancy root and various compartment levels. Which principle does OCI IAM follow when evaluating conflicting or overlapping policy statements?

Hard

Frequently asked questions

What does the Identity And Access Management domain cover on the 1Z0-1072-26 exam?
Be able to read a scenario and write or select the exact OCI policy statement: correct verb (inspect/read/use/manage), resource-type, and compartment scope. The single most important thing is precise policy syntax and correct compartment scoping.
How many questions are in this domain?
This page lists all 60 Identity And Access Management questions in the 1Z0-1072-26 question bank. The actual exam draws from this domain proportionally to its weighting in the official exam blueprint.
What is the best way to practise this domain?
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