Oracle Cloud Database Services 2025 Professional

About the Certification

This is an Oracle certification within the enterprise cloud database track on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It focuses on understanding the deployment, operation, and management of managed / cloud database services inside organizations. The certification evaluates your awareness of how correct architectural decisions impact availability, performance, and protection through backup and recovery strategies, as well as access security from an identity perspective, without going into complex configuration or tuning during the exam. It also validates your understanding of the different database options available on OCI, such as Autonomous Databases and Managed Databases, and your ability to make more accurate decisions around deployment, backup, and access placement before larger-scale expansion. It links poor design choices to downtime or slow fault detection, confirming your readiness as a database professional who understands Oracle Cloud DB logic and supports application stability before moving into heavier execution stages later.

Main Curriculum

The curriculum is divided into eight main sections

  • Oracle Cloud Database Services Architecture
    • Overview of Oracle Cloud database services
    • When to use Autonomous Databases vs Exadata vs MySQL
    • Shared responsibility model
    • Reference database architectures
  • High Availability, Backup, and Disaster Recovery
    • Multi–availability domain and multi-region architectures
    • Backup and restore strategies
    • Data protection and redundancy concepts
    • Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) planning
  • Exadata Database Service Architecture
    • Exadata Cloud Service and Exadata Cloud@Customer
    • High-performance architecture
    • High availability and application clusters
    • Business-critical workload use cases
  • Performance Tuning and Optimization
    • Performance monitoring
    • Resource management
    • Cost vs performance trade-offs
    • Capacity planning
  • Autonomous Database Design and Operations
    • Autonomous Transaction Processing
    • Autonomous Data Warehouse
    • Automatic scaling and patching
    • Built-in security and performance
  • Security, Identity, and Data Protection
    • Database security architecture
    • Encryption at rest and in transit
    • Key management vaults
    • Access control and database auditing
  • Migration, Operations, and Lifecycle Management
    • Database migration strategies
    • On-premises to cloud migration scenarios
    • Patching and upgrades
    • Post-launch operations and best practices
  • MySQL and Open-Source Databases
    • MySQL Database Service
    • HeatWave analytics
    • Transactional vs analytical workloads on MySQL
    • High availability and scalability

Exam Details :

  • Exam code: 1Z0-1093-25
  • Duration: 120 minutes
  • Number of questions: 60–70 questions
  • Question type: Multiple choice + real-world scenarios
  • Language: English
  • Passing score: Approximately 65%–70%
  • Exam fee: USD 245–295 (may vary by country and include taxes)
  • Certification validity: Lifetime

Do I need certifications before it ?

No, not required.

Basic knowledge of databases or prior exposure to cloud environments is helpful to speed up understanding, but not mandatory.

Which certifications are recommended after this one ?

Not mandatory.
However, if you are looking for a strong path in Oracle Cloud database management, especially in database configuration, performance optimization, backup and recovery, and data security, then the Oracle Cloud Database Services 2025 Professional certification is the strongest option.

What are the main uses of the Oracle Cloud Database Services 2025 Professional certification ?

  • Database Architecture / Cloud Data Architect roles, moving from database administration to enterprise cloud data design
  • Oracle Autonomous Database Advanced for deeper expertise in automation, performance, and high availability
  • Data Engineering (ETL / Pipelines / Lakehouse) to integrate databases with modern data platforms and analytics
  • OCI Architecture (Associate → Professional) to connect database services with full cloud architecture design
  • Multi-Cloud Databases (AWS / Azure) to operate databases across multiple cloud providers
  • Data Security & Governance focusing on encryption, compliance, and database governance

Professional Database Management on Oracle Cloud :

This certification enables you to deploy, operate, and evaluate cloud database layers on OCI using a more stable enterprise approach before moving into heavier engineering execution later. It prepares you to review database, IAM, and backup placement early, understand the impact of failures or misconfiguration on application stability, and provide clearer, more consistent deployment and troubleshooting recommendations that support long-term enterprise operations.

Who is this certification suitable for ?

  • Cloud Database Administrators on OCI
  • Infrastructure, applications, VDI, and cloud operations teams relying on database stability
  • Database and cloud architects and presales engineers planning before heavy execution
  • Professionals deploying single-AD or multi-AD databases and evaluating backup/restore impact
  • Teams aiming to reduce downtime and understand configuration impact on service availability

In Short :

For any data professional who wants to specialize in Oracle Cloud database services deployment logic within enterprises, before moving into deep configuration and tuning later.

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