Three full-length practice tests for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (1Z0-1072-26) certification exam - 50 questions per test, 90 minutes, 68% to pass, unlimited retakes.
Every question is grounded in Oracle's official exam objectives and product documentation - written fresh for this course, not recycled from public dumps.
What you'll be tested on
- Core OCI services: Compute, Block/Object/File Storage, Networking (VCN, subnets, gateways, load balancing)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and compartments
- Database services on OCI
- Governance, security, and observability basics
- Pricing, billing, and support models
Where candidates lose points
The exam rewards architectural judgment over rote service knowledge, so the questions that trip people up most are the scenario-based ones on high-availability and disaster-recovery design - choosing between Data Guard, GoldenGate, and RAC for a given database resilience requirement, or deciding when a Dynamic Routing Gateway versus a Local Peering Gateway versus a Service Gateway is the right networking choice. Candidates who've only worked with the OCI console in isolation, without having designed a multi-AD or multi-region topology, tend to underperform on these compared to the more straightforward compute and storage sizing questions.
Sample question
A company runs a mission-critical Oracle Database on OCI and requires automatic failover to a standby database in a different availability domain with zero data loss during normal operations. Which OCI database feature best satisfies this requirement?
- A. Oracle GoldenGate with a single target replica
- B. Oracle Data Guard configured in maximum availability mode
- C. A manual backup and restore process scheduled hourly
- D. Oracle RAC within a single availability domain
Full explanations and 149 more questions like this are in the practice tests.
How long to prepare
Plan for 4-6 weeks if you have hands-on OCI experience already, since this exam draws on architectural scenarios across compute, networking, database, and security rather than isolated facts - the 50-question, 68%-to-pass format means you need working familiarity with HA/DR tradeoffs and IAM policy design, not just service names, so lab time matters more than reading time here.
