Goal: Build strong fundamentals of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

• Introduction to Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
   
• Oracle Cloud global infrastructure (regions, availability domains, fault domains)
   
• Identity & Access Management (IAM): users, groups, policies, dynamic groups
   
• Tenancy structure & compartments
   

Hands-on labs:

• Set up an OCI Free Tier account
   
• Create users, groups, and IAM policies
   
• Explore tenancy, regions, and availability domains
   

• Compute: instances, shapes, boot volumes, custom images
   
• Networking: VCN, subnets, route tables, gateways (IGW, NAT, LPG, DRG)
   
• Load balancing basics (public & private load balancers)
   
• Networking security: security lists vs. network security groups (NSG)
   

Hands-on labs:

• Launch Linux & Windows compute instances
   
• Configure VCN + subnets + internet access
   
• Deploy a load balancer with backend servers
   

Goal: Gain expertise in data services and security for cloud workloads.

• Block storage vs. object storage vs. file storage
   
• Data lifecycle, encryption, replication
   
• OCI Data Transfer Service
   
• Object Storage for big data / analytics
   

Hands-on labs:

• Create block storage & attach to VM
   
• Upload/download files using Object Storage CLI/SDK
   
• Configure lifecycle policies
   

• Autonomous Database (ATP & ADW)
   
• OCI Database services: DB Systems, Exadata Cloud Service
   
• Backup & Recovery in OCI
   
• OCI Vault: Key Management & secrets management
   
• Security features: WAF, Bastion, Cloud Guard, Logging
   

Hands-on labs:

• Provision Autonomous Database and connect via SQL Developer
   
• Enable Auto Scaling & backup for DB
   
• Use OCI Vault for encryption keys and secrets
   

Goal: Build, deploy, and monitor enterprise solutions on OCI.

• Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) – container orchestration
   
• Functions (serverless compute)
   
• API Gateway & OCI Events service
   
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform with OCI
   
• Monitoring, Alarms, and Notifications
   

Hands-on labs:

• Deploy a containerized app in OKE
   
• Configure Functions + API Gateway
   
• Use Terraform to provision compute + networking
   
• Set up alarms for instance metrics
   

Capstone Project Objective:
Design and deploy a multi-tier cloud solution:

• A secure VCN + subnets
   
• Web tier with load balancer + compute instances
   
• Database tier with Autonomous Database
   
• Object storage for static files
   
• Monitoring + logging + alarms
   
• Security best practices with IAM, Vault, and Cloud Guard
   

Deliverables:

• Fully working OCI project in Free Tier / paid account
   
• Architecture diagram + documentation
   
• GitHub repo with Terraform scripts (if applicable)
   

Certification Prep:

• Review OCI Foundations (1Z0-1085) and OCI Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) exam objectives
   
• Practice mock exams & labs
   

By the end, you will:

1. Understand OCI core architecture: compute, storage, networking.
    
2. Deploy and manage databases: Autonomous DB, DB Systems.
    
3. Apply cloud security best practices with IAM, Vault, WAF, and Cloud Guard.
    
4. Implement advanced solutions: Kubernetes, serverless, DevOps with Terraform.
    
5. Be exam-ready for OCI Foundations Associate and OCI Architect Associate certifications.