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Observability And Management
This domain covers OCI Observability and Management: Monitoring metrics and alarms, the Events service and its rules, Logging and Log Search, Notifications topics, and Resource Manager stacks. Questions are scenario-based, asking you to pick correct destinations, prerequisite steps, and feature behavior rather than recite definitions.
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Be able to configure an Events rule with a valid destination, build a Monitoring alarm with correct metric and threshold, and manage a Resource Manager stack through plan, apply, and drift detection. The key is knowing each service's prerequisites and supported destinations.
Events service rules invoking Functions, Streaming, or Notifications as rule actions
Monitoring alarms: metric queries, thresholds, severity, and the suppression feature
Logging, Log Groups, and Log Search for auditing and troubleshooting resources
Resource Manager stacks: plan, apply, destroy, and drift detection on Terraform configurations
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Common Observability And Management exam traps
- ▸Assuming Events can call a Function directly without first creating the rule and granting the service permission to invoke it
- ▸Confusing alarm suppression with alarm disabling; suppression pauses notifications for a window, it does not delete the alarm
- ▸Treating Resource Manager as only apply/destroy, missing that plan and drift detection are also stack operations
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What is the purpose of the 'Tags' feature in OCI resource management?
Medium2Which THREE things must be configured to use Logging Analytics?
Hard3You want to notify an external HTTP endpoint whenever an alarm fires. What should you do?
Medium4Which service is best used to monitor a public-facing website endpoint for availability?
Easy5You need to ensure that a resource's cost can be tracked. What must you do after defining a tag?
Medium6Which THREE aspects of a Terraform stack can you modify in a Resource Manager job?
Hard7Your development team wants to automatically trigger a serverless function whenever a new object is uploaded to an OCI Object Storage bucket. Which OCI service acts as the foundational router to capture this object upload event and invoke the function?
Medium8An OCI administrator needs to be notified via email whenever CPU utilization on a critical production compute instance exceeds 90% for a sustained period of 5 minutes. Which combination of services should the administrator configure to achieve this?
Easy9Which OCI service acts as a centralized dashboard to view health status of all OCI services in your region?
Easy10Which THREE actions are required to successfully set up an Alarm?
Medium11Which THREE features are core capabilities of the OCI Audit service? (Choose three.)
Medium12Which OCI service is best suited for real-time monitoring of CPU and Memory utilization on a Compute instance?
Easy13You are using the Events service to trigger a Function. What is a required step before this can work?
Medium14You are troubleshooting a deployment failure in Resource Manager. Where can you see the detailed Terraform output logs?
Medium15When designing a comprehensive tagging strategy in OCI, which THREE practices or features should you implement for effective governance and cost management? (Choose three.)
Hard16Which TWO types of tags are available in OCI?
Medium17Which THREE options are available for creating a Resource Manager stack?
Hard18You need to be alerted only when the average CPU utilization of a cluster of instances exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which alarm feature achieves this?
Medium19Which TWO OCI resources are automatically tracked by the Audit service?
Easy20Which service allows you to view the audit logs of all API calls made in your tenancy?
Easy21You are using Service Connector Hub to move data from Logging to Object Storage. What is the primary benefit of this approach?
Hard22Which TWO items are components of an OCI Alarm?
Easy23A security analyst must prove which user deleted a specific Object Storage bucket two weeks ago, including the source IP address and the exact request time. Which OCI service and action should the analyst use?
Easy24A company uses OCI Resource Manager to manage its cloud infrastructure using Terraform. A developer has modified a Terraform configuration file locally and needs to preview the changes that Resource Manager will make to the cloud environment before actually applying them. Which Resource Manager job type should be executed?
Hard25You need to ingest custom application logs from multiple compute instances into OCI Logging. What is the correct sequence of components you must configure within OCI?
Hard26What is the default retention period for audit logs in OCI?
Easy27You have an OCI alarm that is stuck in the 'Firing' state. What is the most likely cause?
Medium28Which THREE services can be used as a destination for the Events service?
Medium29When configuring an alarm, what does the 'suppression' feature do?
Medium30Which TWO actions can be performed using OCI Resource Manager stacks? (Choose two.)
Hard31A platform team runs a compute cluster in a single OCI region. They need a dashboard that charts CPU utilization for every instance in a specific compartment and automatically includes new instances launched into that compartment next week, without anyone editing the widget later. Which OCI Monitoring feature should they use for the metric widget?
Medium32An operations team wants a single OCI alarm to notify them when average CPU utilization across a compartment's web tier exceeds 80 percent for a sustained period, and to stop notifying once the condition clears. The team also wants to avoid duplicate pages during short spikes. Which two configurations satisfy these requirements? (Choose two.)
Hard33Which THREE protocols are supported for Notifications subscriptions?
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- What does the Observability And Management domain cover on the 1Z0-1072-26 exam?
- Be able to configure an Events rule with a valid destination, build a Monitoring alarm with correct metric and threshold, and manage a Resource Manager stack through plan, apply, and drift detection. The key is knowing each service's prerequisites and supported destinations.
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- This page lists all 33 Observability And 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.
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