30/60/90-day study plan for OCI 2025 DevOps Professional (1Z0-1109-25): recommended hours, weekly schedules, and practice integration.
This plan is built around a DevOps loop: deliver → observe → recover → improve.
Typical candidates need 70–120 focused hours.
| Your time | Recommended timeline |
|---|---|
| 18–22 hrs/week | 30 days (intensive) |
| 10–14 hrs/week | 60 days (balanced) |
| 6–9 hrs/week | 90 days (part‑time) |
| Week | Focus | Output |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DevOps foundations: environments, IAM, secrets, governance | Topics 1–2 + drills |
| 2 | CI/CD pipelines + artifacts + gates | Topics 3–4 + drills |
| 3 | IaC (Terraform/Resource Manager) + deployment strategies | Topics 5–6 + mixed sets |
| 4 | Observability + incident/rollback + review | mixed sets + revision |
| Week | Focus |
|---|---|
| 1–2 | Environment design + IAM/secrets |
| 3–4 | CI/CD pipelines + artifact strategy |
| 5–6 | Terraform/Resource Manager + deployment strategies |
| 7 | Monitoring/logging + troubleshooting |
| 8 | Mixed sets + final review |
Open practice: /app/cloud/#/topic-selection/oracle_1z0-1109-25