The Developer Professional exam validates that you can build and integrate applications on OCI using correct authentication, safe API usage, and reliable event-driven patterns.
What you should be able to do
- Authenticate to OCI using common patterns (user API keys, instance principals, resource principals).
- Use OCI APIs/SDKs/CLI at a conceptual level: listing resources, handling pagination, respecting compartments.
- Build serverless workflows with Functions and triggers.
- Expose and protect APIs with API Gateway (concept-level).
- Use Events and Notifications for automation and integration.
- Choose storage and messaging primitives appropriately (Object Storage, Streaming, queues/events).
- Add baseline observability: logging, metrics, alarms.
How to prepare efficiently
- Use the Syllabus as your checklist.
- For each topic, write one “golden path” example (auth → call API → log → handle failure).
- Use the Cheatsheet for quick recall of auth + integration pickers.