Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional Workshop — Lesson 3: Compute, Containers, Databases, Storage, Integration, and Data Design

Learning Objectives

• Explain the architecture, workflow, or business purpose behind compute shapes, autoscaling, instance pools, and image lifecycle.
• Apply OKE architecture, registries, serverless, and application deployment choices and database services, Exadata, Autonomous Database, Data Guard, and migration paths in a controlled scenario.
• Validate outcomes and troubleshoot risks involving object, block, file, archive, streaming, integration, and data lifecycle.

Detailed Topics

• compute shapes, autoscaling, instance pools, and image lifecycle
• OKE architecture, registries, serverless, and application deployment choices
• database services, Exadata, Autonomous Database, Data Guard, and migration paths
• object, block, file, archive, streaming, integration, and data lifecycle

Instructor Demonstration

Demonstrate compute shapes, autoscaling, instance pools, and image lifecycle within a multi-region customer platform migrating to OCI with strict isolation, recovery, performance, compliance, and cost requirements, then capture the exact configuration, command, transaction, report, model, query, code, or process evidence that proves the result for lesson 3.

Hands-On Exercise

Implement a controlled exercise covering OKE architecture, registries, serverless, and application deployment choices and database services, Exadata, Autonomous Database, Data Guard, and migration paths, then introduce and resolve an exception involving object, block, file, archive, streaming, integration, and data lifecycle while preserving before-and-after evidence.

1. Confirm the environment, identities, inputs, dependencies, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Complete the course-specific configuration, development, analysis, or process workflow.
3. Capture settings, commands, data, outputs, logs, reports, screenshots, calculations, or test results.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and document corrective action.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the technical or business decision that must be made.
• Compare valid approaches and their security, performance, reliability, cost, compliance, and support trade-offs.
• Define rollback, recovery, ownership, communication, and evidence requirements.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Diagnose issues across compute shapes, autoscaling, instance pools, and image lifecycle, OKE architecture, registries, serverless, and application deployment choices, database services, Exadata, Autonomous Database, Data Guard, and migration paths, object, block, file, archive, streaming, integration, and data lifecycle without making an unverified production change. Separate symptoms from causes, gather evidence, test the smallest reversible correction, rerun validation, and record preventive action.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, dependencies, and expected result are documented.
• The result is reproducible and supported by course-specific evidence.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, performance, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• Exceptions, rollback, ownership, and the next improvement priority are recorded.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Compute, Containers, Databases, Storage, Integration, and Data Design in a realistic Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional Workshop scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.