The following table lists the exam objectives and their weightings.

Understand DevOps principles and effectively work with containerization services  

• Demonstrate proficiency in DevOps practices, tools, and solutions through real-world problem-solving
• Explain and Implement Microservices Architecture
• Identify the need for containerization and create containers using Docker
• Create and manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry OCIR
• Create and manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Instances

Using Code and Templates for Provisioning and Configuring Infrastructure 

• Deploy infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and Terraform on OCI
• Streamline infrastructure deployment and configuration with OCI Resource Manager

Configuring and Managing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)  

• Automate the software development life cycle using OCI DevOps Service
• Configure and manage source code in OCI DevOps Code Repositories
• Analyze and create artifacts for automated deployment to different environments
• Evaluate and Configure Build and Deployment Pipelines
• Create and configure various deployment strategies

 Managing Containers using Container Orchestration Engine     

• Review Container Engine for Kubernetes and important containerization and Kubernetes principles
• Create, manage, and optimize Kubernetes clusters in the OCI environment
• Understand cluster types, cluster access, and other management activities such as deployments, networking, storage, and observability
• Perform scaling, cluster upgrades, use admission controllers, and execute applications on specialized nodes
• Evaluate and configure security within OCI OKE service

Enabling DevSecOps   

• Configure security using DevSecOps best practices in OCI
• Create and manage encryption keys and secrets in OCI Vault
• Evaluate and configure security within the OCI DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Evaluate and configure security for container images used in OCI

Implementing Monitoring and Observability (O&M)  

• Explain the concepts of DevOps measurement
• Monitor metrics using OCI Monitoring Service
• Analyze and manage logs with OCI Logging Service
• Create and track events with OCI Events Service