We’re thrilled to announce that the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2025 Certification Learning Paths and Exams are now live! As with last year, we’ve made significant updates for the 2025 release, which I’ll outline below.
Cloud + Data + AI
OCI offers role-based training and certifications across Cloud, Data and AI. Whether you’re a cloud architect, multicloud architect, AI/ML engineer, data scientist, security engineer, cloud developer, DevOps engineer, cloud operator, data engineer, or database administrator, we’ve got tailored courseware for you.
For beginners or business professionals, we provide three entry-level certifications—completely free! These cover Cloud, Data, and AI and require no prior technical background.
OCI certifications are structured into three levels:
- Foundations: basic understanding of cloud concepts and OCI fundamentals.
- Associate: six months of experience designing and implementing OCI solutions.
- Professional: twelve months of extensive experience designing, implementing and operating large-scale, advanced OCI solutions.
Our latest OCI certification lineup is as follows:
Keeping Pace with Rapid Innovation
OCI is evolving fast, with new features and services rolling out regularly. You can explore the complete list of new releases here. To ensure our courses stay up to date, we continuously develop and refresh our learning content—including microlessons, demos, hands-on labs, skill checks, and practice exams—aligning with the latest OCI advancements.
Key 2025 Learning and Certification Updates
Here’s what’s new in some of our major learning content and certifications:
OCI 2025 Architect Associate & Architect Professional
- Architect Associate covers core OCI primitives: Identity, Networking, Compute, and Storage whereas Architect Professional focuses on advanced topics like security, databases, migration, multicloud, hybrid, HA/DR, and infrastructure-as-code. Architect Professional Exam is a Hands-on Performance Exam (HPE), featuring two real-world challenges in an OCI-provided environment.
- New content for 2025: OS Management Hub, IAM Policy Optimization for Architect Associate and Full Stack Disaster Recovery, API Gateway, Autonomous Recovery Service, Globally Distributed Autonomous Database, OCI Cache, Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud, Oracle Database@Google Cloud and OCI Search for Architect Professional. For a deeper dive, check out this blog post.
OCI 2025 Multicloud Professional
- Multicloud Professional provides a robust curriculum covering critical multicloud concepts covering networking, identity and Oracle Database services on Azure, GCP and AWS (coming soon).
- New content for 2025: Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud and Oracle Database@Google Cloud. To accelerate cross-skilling, we have created new stand-alone courses on OCI for AWS, Azure and GCP professionals. This blog post includes more details.
OCI 2025 Migration Professional
- Migration Professional covers real-world cloud migration scenarios from on-premises, AWS, and containerized environments into OCI. Each scenario is explored in detail, equipped with strategies, tools, and best practices required for seamless migration.
- New content for 2025: Migrating AWS workloads to OCI using Oracle Cloud Migrations service. This blog post includes more details.
OCI 2025 Developer Professional
- Developer Professional covers the entire OCI cloud-native stack including Oracle Kubernetes Engine, Service Mesh, API Gateway, Serverless Functions, Streaming, Queues, Events, and more.
- New content for 2025: Schedulable Functions, API Gateway enhancements, and additional hands-on labs. This learning path includes a comprehensive workshop (with 40 lab exercises) providing step-by-step guidance on how to create a cloud-native application on OCI. You can explore further in this blog post.
OCI 2025 DevOps Professional
- DevOps Professional dives deep into OCI DevOps automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and Observability for OCI DevOps.
- New content for 2025: OCI DevOps Project enhancements, Container Instances, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry enhancements. This blog post includes more details.
OCI 2025 Security Professional
- Security Professional covers the entire OCI security stack, including OCI Threat Intelligence, OCI Cloud Guard, OCI Network Firewall, OCI Security Zones, OCI Vulnerability Scanning, data encryption, MFA and other security services. Like Architect Professional, Security Professional certification is an HPE exam.
- New content for 2025: Zero Trust Packet Routing, OS Management Hub, IAM Optimization & Object IAM, troubleshooting security issues and new HPE scenarios covering Security Zones, OCI certificates and Network firewall. For a deeper dive, check out this blog post.
OCI 2025 Networking Professional
- Networking Professional covers the entire OCI networking stack, including VCN design, hybrid networking, transitive routing, connectivity solutions, troubleshooting tools and networking best practices.
- New content for 2025: Zero Trust Packet Routing, IPSec over FastConnect DNSSEC overview, Tunnel Inspection with OCI Network Firewall and Object Storage Private Endpoints. This blog post includes more details.
OCI 2025 Application Integration Professional
- Application Integration Professional covers Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) components, features, and capabilities. It dives-deep into OIC integrations design and implementation, connections, data mapping and other services.
- New content for 2025: completely redesigned course and exam based on OIC Generation 3 service with 185 microlessons, demos and 62 hands-on practice exercises. This blog post includes more details.
OCI 2025 Observability Professional
- Observability Professional covers entire OCI observability stack, including OCI Monitoring, Logging, Logging Analytics, Stack Monitoring, Events and Application Performance Management services.
- New content for 2025: optimized course structure to focus on core Observability services with updates to OCI Stack Monitoring, Logging Analytics, and Application Performance Management (APM). This blog post includes more details.
OCI 2025 Generative AI Professional
- Generative AI Professional dives-deep into Large Language Models, OCI Generative AI service, OCI Generative AI RAG Agents Service and implementing RAG with Oracle Database 23ai, LangChain and Generative AI service.
- New content for 2025: OCI Generative AI RAG Agents service and building a RAG based chatbot using Oracle Database 23ai, LangChain and OCI Gen AI service; learning path also includes hands-on-labs. This blog post includes more details.
Why Choose OCI Training & Certifications?
Here are the top five reasons why OCI training and certifications stand out:
- Only hyperscaler offering 100%, completely free training on Cloud, AI, and Data.
- Only hyperscaler providing three Foundations-level certifications for free.
- Only hyperscaler with an integrated Learning Management System (LMS) and online exam platform.
- Only hyperscaler delivering all exams online—no need to visit physical test centers.
- Only hyperscaler offering 100% free full practice exams and exam prep lessons.
And last but not the least, all OCI courses include hands-on labs in an Oracle-provided environment. This means that you don’t just learn concepts—you can practice them in real-world scenarios (1 month lab access costs $29).
Check out this quick video to explore OCI trainings and certifications!
Your Feedback Matters
Our team has worked tirelessly to bring you these new releases, and we hope you find them valuable!
We’re constantly improving our training—integrating feedback and tracking learner engagement. If something isn’t working or could be improved, we want to hear from you! You can provide feedback directly within any course, and we’d love for you to rate your experience.
Good luck with the OCI 2025 Learning Paths and Certification Exams!