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OCI Generative AI Professional Notes
Field notes from earning the 1Z0-1127-25 certification and how it informs real-world enterprise AI delivery.
I recently earned the 1Z0-1127-25 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional certification. Here are the notes I keep referring back to during client work.
Key Domains
- Architecture: OCI Data Science, GPU shapes, and networking patterns for secure multi-tenant deployments.
- Model Lifecycle: Fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment pipelines across OpenAI, Cohere, and custom models hosted on OCI.
- Security & Compliance: Vault integration, audit, and IAM policies that align with regulated industries.
Practical Takeaways
The exam reinforced patterns we use daily—especially around hybrid workloads that span on-prem DGX clusters and OCI regions. The emphasis on observability, metrics, and guardrails mirrors what enterprise stakeholders expect in production.
How It Shapes Delivery
- Blueprint designs now include explicit OCI reference architectures by default.
- Runbooks call out service limits, failover strategies, and cost levers unique to OCI.
- Security conversations accelerate because we can translate certification objectives into design controls.
Certifications don't replace experience, but pairing both lets clients move faster because the fundamentals are already vetted.