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1Z0-1093 Oracle Cloud Database Services 2022 Professional Practice Exam
Exam Number: 4822 | Last updated April 19, 2026 | 525+ questions across 3 vendor-aligned objectives
The 1Z0-1093 Oracle Cloud Database Services 2022 Professional exam is written for database administrators, cloud engineers, and data platform specialists who deploy and operate Oracle Database on OCI. Candidates validate the ability to provision Base Database Service, Exadata Cloud Service, and Autonomous Database, and to manage backup, patching, Data Guard, and performance across all three offerings.
The heaviest content is Deployment and Lifecycle Management (roughly 40%), covering VM DB Systems, bare-metal DB Systems, Exadata Cloud Service provisioning, and Autonomous Database creation, scaling, and cloning. Backup, Recovery, and High Availability contributes another 25% with automatic backups, point-in-time restore, and Data Guard Associations.
Security and Networking sits near 20% and drills into Oracle Data Safe, Transparent Data Encryption with customer-managed keys, and the private endpoint model. Monitoring, Patching, and Performance rounds out the remaining weight with Database Management, OCI Monitoring, patching workflows, and the Performance Hub on Autonomous Database.
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Question #1 - Deployment and Lifecycle Management
A cloud DBA at a fintech is provisioning an Autonomous Database shared infrastructure instance for a new analytics workload. She wants to scale up CPU during business hours and scale down overnight to cut cost.
Which Autonomous Database feature delivers this automated scaling?
A) Auto Scaling on CPU with scheduled scaling or metric-based scaling.
B) A separate database for peak and off-peak.
C) Manual reboot into a different shape each day.
D) Keeping the maximum CPU always allocated.
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Correct answers: A – Explanation:
Autonomous Database Auto Scaling allows CPU to scale up and down within configured limits, with metric-based or scheduled triggers — the designed mechanism. Option C requires downtime. Option B duplicates data. Option D wastes budget. Source: Check Source
Question #2 - Deployment and Lifecycle Management
An infrastructure architect needs Oracle RAC on OCI with dedicated hardware for a mission-critical workload requiring the highest I/O throughput available from Oracle Cloud.
Which OCI database service fits a mission-critical workload requiring RAC on dedicated hardware?
A) A single VM DB System with no RAC.
B) Exadata Cloud Service with RAC enabled.
C) Autonomous Database shared infrastructure only.
D) An Object Storage bucket tagged as a database.
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Correct answers: B – Explanation:
Exadata Cloud Service provides the highest OCI database performance with native RAC support for mission-critical workloads. Option A lacks RAC. Option C does not expose raw RAC configuration. Option D is not a database. Source: Check Source
Question #3 - Backup, Recovery, and High Availability
A DBA operating a Base Database System wants point-in-time restore capability for the last 30 days without managing RMAN scripts manually.
Which OCI database feature fits?
A) No backups — assume the application retries.
B) An RMAN script maintained on-prem only.
C) Automatic Backups with point-in-time restore up to the retention window.
D) A manual nightly export to a USB drive.
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Correct answers: C – Explanation:
OCI Base Database Service provides Automatic Backups with configurable retention and PITR, managed by Oracle. Option A risks data loss. Option D is not supported. Option B is not integrated with OCI. Source: Check Source
Question #4 - Backup, Recovery, and High Availability
An architect needs cross-AD disaster recovery for a Base Database System: primary in AD-1 with a physical standby in AD-2 ready to take over on failure.
Which OCI construct fits?
A) A single DB System in one AD only.
B) An Object Storage copy of the data files.
C) Manual export-import each night to the standby.
D) A Data Guard Association between primary and standby DB Systems across ADs.
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Correct answers: D – Explanation:
Data Guard Associations let OCI manage primary/standby DB Systems with redo transport and role transitions, delivering cross-AD DR. Option A has no DR. Option C is lossy. Option B is not a recovery mechanism. Source: Check Source
Question #5 - Security and Networking
A compliance officer at a healthcare company requires customer-managed encryption keys for an Autonomous Database, with key rotation controlled by the customer.
Which OCI pattern supports customer-managed keys for Autonomous Database?
A) TDE with keys stored in OCI Vault, referenced by the Autonomous Database.
B) Disabling TDE entirely.
C) Oracle-managed keys only with no customer control.
D) A private key file saved to the DBA laptop.
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Correct answers: A – Explanation:
OCI Vault supports customer-managed master keys that TDE uses to encrypt data at rest; the customer controls rotation and access policies. Option C does not meet the requirement. Option B violates encryption policy. Option D is not a supported model. Source: Check Source
Question #6 - Deployment and Lifecycle Management
A DBA needs to clone an Autonomous Database to a non-production environment for QA without affecting the production workload and without a long outage.
Which Autonomous Database feature fits fast non-disruptive cloning to a QA environment?
A) Dropping and recreating the production database.
B) Full clone from Autonomous Database, leveraging the source’s snapshots.
C) Exporting the entire database to CSV and re-importing.
D) A manual DBMS_DATAPUMP process run with no options.
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Correct answers: B – Explanation:
Autonomous Database supports full clones using internal snapshots, which is the fastest and least-disruptive way to produce a QA copy. Option C is slow and loses fidelity. Option A destroys production. Option D is not automated. Source: Check Source
Question #7 - Monitoring, Patching, and Performance
A DBA wants to investigate a slow query on an Autonomous Database, view historical wait events, top SQL, and I/O patterns over the last 24 hours.
Which Autonomous Database tool provides this analysis?
A) An emailed nightly report only.
B) A manual V$SESSION query via SQL Developer.
C) Performance Hub on Autonomous Database.
D) The OCI Console billing dashboard.
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Correct answers: C – Explanation:
Performance Hub surfaces AWR-style insights, wait events, top SQL, and I/O over time for Autonomous Database, designed for this analysis. Option B is point-in-time. Option D is billing, not performance. Option A is lagging. Source: Check Source
Question #8 - Security and Networking
A security admin wants to grant the Autonomous Database access only from a specific VCN private subnet, not from the public internet.
Which configuration meets this private-access requirement?
A) A public bucket policy on Object Storage.
B) Disabling the TLS certificate on the database.
C) Leaving the default public endpoint open with no restrictions.
D) Private endpoint configuration for the Autonomous Database attached to the chosen VCN subnet.
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Correct answers: D – Explanation:
Autonomous Database supports a private endpoint that attaches to a specific VCN subnet, making the database reachable only from that network path. Option C exposes the database publicly. Option B breaks TLS. Option A is unrelated. Source: Check Source
Question #9 - Deployment and Lifecycle Management
A data platform lead wants an Autonomous Database dedicated infrastructure deployment so they can host multiple autonomous databases on private Exadata hardware.
Which ADB flavor fits?
A) Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure with a fleet administrator role.
B) Base Database Service bare metal.
C) Autonomous Database on Shared Infrastructure only.
D) MySQL HeatWave.
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Correct answers: A – Explanation:
Autonomous Database on Dedicated Infrastructure runs on customer-dedicated Exadata and is administered by a fleet administrator — exactly the requirement. Option C is multi-tenant. Option B is not autonomous. Option D is a different product. Source: Check Source
Question #10 - Monitoring, Patching, and Performance
A fleet of 20 Base Database Systems needs centralized monitoring of performance, storage, and availability with alerting to OpsGenie on threshold breaches.
Which OCI service delivers centralized database monitoring with alerting?
A) A manual spreadsheet of health per database.
B) Visiting each DB System’s page manually each morning.
C) Database Management combined with OCI Monitoring alarms routed via Notifications.
D) A compute instance running a custom script with no integration.
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Correct answers: C – Explanation:
Database Management aggregates database performance and health, and OCI Monitoring alarms Notifications route alerts to downstream systems — the engineered observability pattern. Option B is manual. Option A is not real-time. Option D is unintegrated. Source: Check Source
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What the 1Z0 1093 Cloud DB Services Pro exam measures
- Deployment and lifecycle management (40%) — provision Base Database Service, Exadata Cloud Service, and Autonomous Database, and execute scaling, cloning, and termination workflows.
- Backup, recovery, and high availability (25%) — configure automatic backups, point-in-time restore, and Data Guard Associations across cloud database services.
- Security and networking (20%) — apply Oracle Data Safe, Transparent Data Encryption with customer-managed keys in OCI Vault, and private endpoint access.
- Monitoring, patching, and performance (15%) — deploy Database Management, OCI Monitoring, patching workflows, and tune with the Performance Hub on Autonomous Database.
How to prepare for this exam
- Review the official 1Z0-1093 exam page for current objectives.
- Complete the Oracle University Oracle Cloud Database Services Professional learning path on MyLearn.
- In an OCI tenancy, create an Autonomous Database and a Base Database System, clone the autonomous instance, and configure a Data Guard Association for high availability.
- Apply the skills at work: migrate a lab database to OCI, register a production DB with Data Safe, or run a patch cycle against a non-production Base Database System.
- Master one objective at a time, starting with deployment and lifecycle management since it carries the most weight.
- Run PowerKram learn mode to see feedback after every question with sourced links back to Oracle documentation.
- Finish with PowerKram exam mode across all objectives until you clear the threshold three times in a row.
Career paths and salary outlook
Cloud Database Services skills anchor senior DBA and platform-engineering careers:
- Cloud Database Engineer — $120,000–$165,000 (Glassdoor).
- Senior Oracle DBA (Cloud) — $125,000–$170,000 (PayScale).
- Data Platform Architect — $140,000–$195,000 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Official resources
Work through the Oracle Cloud Database Services Professional Learning Path on Oracle MyLearn, then reinforce with the Oracle Autonomous Database documentation and the Base Database Service documentation.