OCI Architect Professional is a “senior architect” exam. You’re tested on choosing designs that remain safe under failure, change, and scale.
What you should be able to do
- Architect HA/DR with clear RTO/RPO reasoning and tested recovery paths.
- Design network segmentation, routing, and connectivity for enterprise environments.
- Choose hybrid connectivity patterns and understand routing/security implications.
- Apply security architecture: IAM at scale, key management, encryption, posture management.
- Make performance and cost trade-offs that don’t compromise reliability.
- Build operational readiness: monitoring, logging, audit, runbooks, automation.
How to prepare efficiently
- Use the Syllabus as your checklist.
- Drill scenario questions aggressively—this exam is about judgment, not memorization.
- Keep a “decision log” with the Cheatsheet as your reference for patterns.