We are thrilled to announce the 2025 edition of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Migration Architect Professional Certification. This certification is designed for cloud architects, IT professionals, and anyone involved in cloud migrations, aiming to excel in the design and migration of workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
The Critical Role of Migration Architects
Cloud migrations are complex, requiring strategic planning, precise execution, and continuous optimization to ensure minimal disruption and maximum efficiency. As organizations move workloads from various source environments into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Migration Architects play a critical role in designing, planning, orchestrating, and optimizing the entire process. They are responsible for assessing workloads, selecting the right migration strategy, ensuring security and compliance, and optimizing costs.
Without a structured migration strategy, businesses may encounter performance bottlenecks, security risks, and operational challenges, leading to inefficiencies and potential disruptions. The OCI 2025 Migration Architect Professional certification will empower you with the expertise to navigate these challenges, ensuring seamless and scalable cloud transformations.
What’s New?
The OCI 2025 Migration Architect Professional Certification introduces a new section on migrating workloads from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to OCI. This includes migrating AWS EC2 instances to OCI Compute using Oracle Cloud Migrations (OCM) through migration workflows such as discovery of assets, planning, replications, launch & post migration validations.
You will gain knowledge on mapping AWS EC2 Instances and EBS volumes to OCI equivalents, right sizing and running cost evaluations as part of this migration process.
To enhance exam preparation, the certification now includes an increased number of practice questions, allowing you to test your knowledge, reinforce key concepts, and build your confidence before taking the final exam.
OCI Migration Architect Certification and Course Overview
The OCI 2025 Migration Architect Professional Certification provides in-depth training on real-world cloud migration scenarios, various migration paths 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. The following are some of the scenarios covered:
- Migrate VMs from on-premises to OCI Compute
- Migrate AWS EC2 Instances to OCI Compute
- Migrate VMs to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS)
- Migrate Containers to OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
- Migrate OCI Compute instances between OCI regions
- Migrate Oracle Databases from on-premises to OCI
The scenarios focus on building skills for designing and implementing migration solutions leveraging OCI services. By attaining this certification, individuals can showcase advanced knowledge and skills in designing and implementing Oracle cloud migration solutions.
The OCI 2025 Migration Architect Professional Certification exam assesses learners’ understanding of these topics and their ability to design and implement them. Here is a breakdown of the exam objectives:
| Objectives |
% of Exam |
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| Objective 1: Fundamentals of Cloud Migrations |
10% |
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| 1.1 |
Explain the fundamentals of cloud migrations |
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| Objective 2: OCI Networking services for migrations |
5% |
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| 2.1 |
Explain the fundamentals of OCI Networking services |
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| 2.2 |
Understand OCI Connectivity options |
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| Objective 3: Design and implement migrations using Oracle Cloud Migrations service |
25% |
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| 3.1 |
Explain the fundamentals of Oracle Cloud Migrations service |
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| 3.2 |
Design and Implement Discovery, Inventory, Planning and Assessment tasks for migration |
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| 3.3 |
Perform Replication and Execution tasks for migration |
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| 3.4 |
Perform migration of AWS EC2 instances to OCI |
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| Objective 4: Design and implement migrations using Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) |
15% |
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| 4.1 |
Perform source discovery to understand infrastructure resources in on-premises environment |
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| 4.2 |
Design the Target OCVS environment based on migration pre-requisites |
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| 4.3 |
Perform migrations using Hybrid Cloud Extension |
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| Objective 5: Migrate containerized applications to OCI |
10% |
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| 5.1 |
Explain the fundamentals of OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry |
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| 5.2 |
Understand the Phases involved in migrating containerized workloads to OCI |
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| Objective 6: Migrate infrastructure workloads between OCI regions |
15% |
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| 6.1 |
Understand OCI Object Storage Replication and Object Copy |
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| 6.2 |
Implement OCI Block Volume Replication |
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| 6.3 |
Implement OCI File System Replication |
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| 6.4 |
Design and implement OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery Service |
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| Objective 7: Migrate Oracle Databases to OCI Database Services |
20% |
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| 7.1 |
Analyze and design a successful database migration plan |
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| 7.2 |
Explain the different methods for migrating to OCI database services |
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Successfully completing this course and passing the certification exam will empower you with the skills and knowledge to design and manage effective migration solutions utilizing OCI services. Furthermore, you will obtain a prestigious credential, underscoring their expertise in this domain.
Our integrated learning platform offers an immersive experience, encompassing video courses, skill checks, exam preparations, practice exams, online certification exams, credentials, and more.
Certification Exam
The certification exam format remains consistent with previous years, maintaining a structured approach to assess your skills. Here’s what to expect:
Get Started
- Access learning path: OCI 2025 Migration Architect Professional
- Register and schedule your Exam (1Z0-1123-25): OCI 2025 Migration Architect Exam
This certification course and exam would have not been possible without the help of a great group of Oracle University domain experts and OCI Migration Services PMs. The following experts contributed to this project:
Subject Matter experts and instructors (Samvit Mishra, Tijo Thomas, Rashmi Panda, Mahendra Mehra), Product Management (Lawrence Gabriel), Program Management (Tamal Chatterjee), Studio (Deepak Modi, Selvaraj Natarajan, Shankar Ghatwar, Vidyashree RS), Graphics (Elise Thomas, Kavya Bellur), Publishing (Pavithran Adka, Srividya Rameshkumar), and Certification (Shafi Ahmed, Geetha Lobo, Mike Randall)
Thank you for considering the OCI 2025 Migration Architect course and certification exam. We wish you the best of luck in your journey towards becoming a certified OCI Migration Architect.