Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations Professional (Udacity)

Offered by Udacity, Oracle,
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations Professional (Udacity)

Learn operational activities in the OCI ecosystem. This course covers some of the day-to-day operational activities that you might find yourself managing in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ecosystem like managing custom images, describing scaling options, billing, managing accounts, troubleshooting, and more.

Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see Udacity's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.

This course is going to walk you through some of the day-to-day operational activities that you might find yourself managing in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ecosystem.

  • Use OCI CLI to create, discover, and terminate resources.
  • Create shell scripts using OCI CLI.
  • Use Oracle Resource Manager.
  • Provision a simple set of OCI resources with Ansible.
  • Manage custom images.
  • Network Security Architecture: VCN, Load balancer, and DNS.
  • Describe scaling options.
  • Billing and account management options in OCI Console.
  • Troubleshoot.

What you will learn

Introduction

  • Interact with OCI: Console, CLI, SDK, and API.
  • Learn about OCI CLI authentication and syntax.

Resource & Configuration Management

  • Understand configuration management.
  • Learn about Ansible with OCI.
  • Study Terraform (configuration, install, and plan).
  • Explore OCI Resource Manager.

Common Operational Activities

  • Explore OS management with Windows and Oracle Linux.
  • Learn the concept of load balancing.
  • Explore OCI Traffic Management Service.
  • Differentiate between block storage and file storage.
  • Explore OCI Object Storage Service.
  • Learn about replication, versioning, retention rules, and security.

Troubleshooting & Disaster Recovery

  • Troubleshoot compute via diagnostic interrrupt.
  • Troubleshoot compute performance.
  • Explore private connectivity: IPSec VPN and FastConnect.
  • Troubleshoot load balancers, backend set, and shared block volumes.
  • Troubleshoot file storage instances and orphaned mount targets.

Identity & Access Management

  • Get introduced to IAM.
  • Differentiate between AuthZ and AuthN.
  • Learn common policies and conditional policies.
  • Learn dynamic groups, federation, and identity domains.

Security Services

  • Explore Cloud Guard (concepts, problems, recipes, and notifications).
  • Learn about Security Zones and Security Advisor.
  • Learn encryption basics.
  • Explore Vaults, keys, and secrets.
  • Explore Bastion, WAF, vulnerability scanning, and certificates.

Observability & Management

  • Get introduced to observability.
  • Learn about monitoring (notification services, metrics, and alarms).
  • Learn about logging services.
  • Access, search, and explore logs.

Billing & Cost Management

  • Understand cost analysis.
  • Calculate and optimize cost (compute, block, file, object storage, and networking).
  • Learn about software licensing models.

Governance & Administration

  • Manage service limits and quotas.
  • Learn about Cloud Advisor and organization management.

Prepare for OCI Operations Professional Certification

  • Prep for certification.
  • Practice sample exam questions.

Continue Your Journey

  • What's next?
Go to Class
MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Related Courses

Classical Cryptosystems and Core Concepts (Coursera) Coursera
University of Colorado System

Classical Cryptosystems and Core Concepts (Coursera)

Welcome to Introduction to Applied Cryptography. Cryptography is an essential component of cybersecurity. The need to protect sensitive information and ensure the integrity of industrial control processes has placed a premium on cybersecurity skills in today’s information technology market. Demand for cybersecurity jobs is expected to rise 6 million globally by 2019, with a projected shortfall of 1.5 million, according to Symantec, the world’s largest security software vendor. According to Forbes, the cybersecurity market is expected to grow from $75 billion in 2015 to $170 billion by 2020.

Jun 8th 2026
3 Weeks
Cyber-Physical Systems Security (Udacity) Udacity
Georgia Institute of Technology,Udacity

Cyber-Physical Systems Security (Udacity)

This course provides an introduction to security issues relating to various cyber-physical systems including industrial control systems and those considered critical infrastructure systems. Take this course if you need to learn the state of the art of designing protections for cyber-physical systems like the power grid, industrial control networks, and autonomous vehicles.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (Udacity) Udacity
Udacity,Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (Udacity)

Uplevel with in-demand OCI skills that can help you advance your career. Develop key insights into key concepts and features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Identify how the OCI's global distribution of infrastructure components can assist your enterprise. Begin your journey on Oracle Cloud by getting to know its architecture and user management. Learn about topics like VCN, network security, load balancing, traffic management, and more. Plus, dive deep into OCI computing, storage, infrastructure, observability, and management.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Engineering Practices for Building Quality Software (Coursera) Coursera
University of Minnesota

Engineering Practices for Building Quality Software (Coursera)

Agile embraces change which means that team should be able to effectively make changes to the system as team learns about users and market. To be good at effectively making changes to the system, teams need to have engineering rigor and excellence else embracing change becomes very painful and expensive. In this course, you will learn about engineering practices and processes that agile and traditional teams use to make sure the team is prepared for change. In additional, you will also learn about practices, techniques and processes that can help team build high quality software. You will also learn how to calculate a variety of quantitative metrics related to software quality.

Jun 8th 2026
4 Weeks
IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts (Coursera) Coursera
Google

IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts (Coursera)

This course covers a wide variety of IT security concepts, tools, and best practices. It introduces threats and attacks and the many ways they can show up. We’ll give you some background of encryption algorithms and how they’re used to safeguard data. Then, we’ll dive into the three As of information security: authentication, authorization, and accounting. We’ll also cover network security solutions, ranging from firewalls to Wifi encryption options. The course is rounded out by putting all these elements together into a multi-layered, in-depth security architecture, followed by recommendations on how to integrate a culture of security into your organization or team.

Jun 8th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Engineering Maintainable Android Apps (Coursera) Coursera
Vanderbilt University

Engineering Maintainable Android Apps (Coursera)

Engineering Maintainable Android Apps, which is a 4 week MOOC that shows by example various methods for engineering maintainable Android apps, including test-driven development methods and how to develop/run unit tests using JUnit and Robotium (or equivalent automated testing frameworks for Android), as well as how to successfully apply common Java/Android software patterns to improve the extensibility and clarity of Android apps.

Jun 8th 2026
4 Weeks
Intro to Information Security (Udacity) Udacity
Georgia Institute of Technology,Udacity

Intro to Information Security (Udacity)

Offered at Georgia Tech as CS 6035. This course provides a one-semester overview of information security. It is designed to help students with prior computer and programming knowledge — both undergraduate and graduate — understand this important priority in society today. The technical content of the course gives a broad overview of essential concepts and methods for providing and evaluating security in information processing systems (operating systems and applications, networks, protocols, and so on).

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional (Udacity) Udacity
Udacity,Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional (Udacity)

This course will help you gain strong knowledge through hands-on experience with architecting infrastructure using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services. Building on your skills obtained from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate course, explore deeper into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services to design and implement a secure and scalable cloud solution that meets HA and DR requirements.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Intro to Backend (Udacity) Udacity
Udacity

Intro to Backend (Udacity)

Starting Out with Web Serving Technology. This course is a selection of material from our larger Web Development course. This course presents an overview of a variety of Web backend topics: handling user input, producing templated output, storing information in databases and data stores, and building systems with secure user accounts.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Client-Server Communication (Udacity) Udacity
Udacity,Google

Client-Server Communication (Udacity)

HTTP/1 to HTTP/2 and all things Security. We use websites all the time, but how does clicking a link in your browser or typing in a URL in the address bar get you to a website? How does the server know what information you're looking for or how to send you that information once it's figured that out? How can you protect your users from attackers? Dig into this course and you'll be able to answer these questions!

Self Paced
Self-Paced