Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A startup is migrating a customer-facing web application to OCI. They want to reduce the chance of an outage if a single data center location has an issue, and they also want the flexibility to scale web servers horizontally. Which design best meets these goals?

A team must run an internal API that should not be reachable from the public internet. The API will be consumed only by applications running in the same VCN. They still want to distribute traffic across multiple backend instances and perform health checks. What is the best OCI solution?

A company stores nightly database exports in an Object Storage bucket. They want to minimize accidental deletion by developers, but still allow developers to upload new objects. What is the most appropriate approach?

A security administrator wants to ensure that only specific teams can create compute instances in a particular compartment, and only with approved shapes and images. Which OCI capability best supports enforcing this kind of policy-based control?

An application team needs to allow a compute instance in a private subnet to download patches from the internet, but the instance must not accept inbound connections from the internet. Which architecture best meets the requirement?

A platform team wants to ensure that all API calls in their tenancy can be audited, and they also want to investigate who changed a security list rule that affected production traffic. Which OCI service should they primarily use?

A company uses compartments to separate dev, test, and prod. They want a single group of network administrators to manage VCNs in all three compartments, while application teams can manage compute instances only within their own environment compartment. What is the best way to implement this?

A team wants to receive alerts when a compute instance’s CPU utilization stays high for 15 minutes so they can scale out. They also want to notify an on-call email distribution list automatically. Which combination of OCI services best meets this need?

A company needs to ensure business continuity for a critical workload. They want to recover in the same region quickly if a single Availability Domain fails, but they also want a plan to recover if the entire region is unavailable. Which approach best fits this requirement?

A team wants to control operational access to production resources. They need a way to open a support request with Oracle when they suspect an OCI service issue, and they want to track the request status centrally. Where should they do this in OCI?