We are thrilled to introduce the 2025 edition of the OCI Developer Professional certification and course! If you’re a developer aiming to master cloud-native application development on OCI, this course is designed to provide you with the latest tools, techniques, and best practices to build and optimize applications efficiently.
Course Overview
Whether you’re a developer, software engineer, or IT professional, this course will help you deepen your expertise in designing and deploying cloud-native applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Through hands-on exercises, real-world scenarios, and expert-led guidance, you’ll gain practical knowledge to enhance application development, security, and deployment workflows within OCI’s dynamic environment.
Check out our course overview video for more details!
What’s new in the 2025 version of the Certification and the course?
Figure 1: OCI Developer Professional 2025 Course Outline
While the core principles of cloud development remain unchanged, OCI continuously evolves, introducing new features that enhance efficiency and scalability. This year’s course has been updated to ensure you stay ahead of the curve, with the following key additions:
- Schedulable Functions: Automate and optimize function execution with OCI’s Resource Scheduler. This module guides you through setting up scheduled functions, explaining practical use cases, and providing hands-on demonstrations to help you implement them effectively.
- Enhanced API Gateway Module: The API Gateway module has been enhanced with new lessons that offer a deeper understanding of API Gateway management. This update focuses on core concepts, prerequisites, and best practices for using the API Gateway service effectively.
Alongside these enhancements, we continue to offer structured learning paths and hands-on practice opportunities to ensure you’re well-equipped to apply OCI’s latest capabilities in real-world development projects.
- Self-Paced Hands-on Labs: One of the best ways to solidify your learning is through hands-on practice. Our self-paced lab subscription includes 17 carefully crafted lab exercises that align with each module of the course. These labs provide step-by-step guidance on implementing OCI services, ensuring you gain practical, applicable experience. In our lab environment, each learner is provided with a dedicated OCI compartment that is pre-configured with identity and quota policies. This allows you to focus entirely on learning without worrying about setup complexities or unexpected costs. Plus, Oracle support is available to assist with any technical challenges you may encounter.
- Skill Checks for Reinforcement: To help you validate your understanding, we’ve incorporated skill checks at the end of each module. These assessments now include detailed explanations, helping you grasp the reasoning behind each correct answer and reinforcing key concepts effectively.
- Full Practice exam (with real exam like questions): To ensure you’re exam-ready, we provide a full-length practice test featuring 50 questions that closely resemble the actual certification exam. This helps you gauge your readiness, identify areas for improvement, and build confidence before sitting for the official certification.
A Comprehensive End-to-End Workshop for Real-World Cloud Experience
For learners eager to go beyond the basics and gain hands-on experience with real-world scenarios, this immersive workshop is the perfect opportunity. The use case centers around Vision Stays, a growing hotel chain that currently operates with a static website. As part of their digital transformation, they aim to introduce an online booking system and integrate with hotel aggregators to expand their reach.
Figure 2: OCI Cloud Native Workshop: Reference Architecture
In this workshop, you’ll architect and develop their solution using microservices, leveraging a variety of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services. This is one of the most in-depth and hands-on training experiences in our OCI collection, featuring over 40 lab exercises. Throughout the journey, you’ll tackle essential tasks such as provisioning OCI resources, setting up a development environment, and working with cutting-edge cloud technologies. You’ll build, deploy, and secure microservices using Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), Oracle Functions, API Gateway, and integrate with various OCI services in your own OCI tenancy.
You can create a Free Tier account and complete this workshop using the free credits provided. If your free credits have expired, you will be billed for any resources you create that are not covered under the Always Free limits.
.If you’re looking to gain practical expertise and take your cloud skills to the next level, this workshop is designed for you!
Certification Exam Format
The certification exam remains consistent with previous years, maintaining a structured approach to assess your cloud-native development skills. Here’s what to expect:
Figure 3: OCI Developer Professional Certification Exam Insights
This exam format continues to provide a comprehensive and fair assessment of your proficiency in leveraging OCI’s cloud-native services for application development.
Take the Next Step in Your OCI Developer Journey
If you’re ready to advance your cloud development skills and earn your OCI Developer Professional certification, begin your journey with the OCI Developer 2025 Professional learning path today.
For details on our self-paced OCI Lab subscriptions, [click here].
To assess your preparedness for the certification exam, you can try your hands on the free practice exam [here]. When you’re prepared, register for the certification exam [here].
We are dedicated to continuously improving your learning experience. Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome, as they help us enhance our courses to better meet your needs.
OCI’s services are constantly evolving, so be sure to revisit the course regularly to stay up to date with the latest advancements.
Thank you for joining us on this learning journey! We hope this guide helps you navigate the updated OCI Developer 2025 Professional certification, and we wish you the best of luck in your certification and cloud development endeavors!
Acknowledgments
This course owes its success to the invaluable contributions of a remarkable team of Oracle University domain experts. The following individuals played crucial roles in bringing the OCI Developer Professional 2025 course release to fruition:
- Subject Matter Experts and Course Peer Review: Rohit Rahi, Mahendra Mehra, David Mills, Tijo Thomas
- Program Management: Kishore SM
- Studio: Deepak Modi, Selvaraj Natarajan
- Graphics: Sapana Bhasker
- Content Edit: Smita Kommini, Moushmi Mukherjee
- Publishing: Sujatha Nagendra, Jayanthy Keshavamurthy, Syed Ali
- QA and Setup: Akansha Kumari