Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Networking Professional Questions and Answers
You are responsible for maintaining the network connectivity between OCI and Azure using the OCI-Azure Interconnect. You need to perform planned maintenance on your on-premises network, which will temporarily disrupt the BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) sessions between your on-premises network and both OCI and Azure. You want to ensure that traffic between OCI and Azure continues to flow without interruption during the maintenance window. Which action is MOST important to take before starting the maintenance to ensure continuous connectivity between OCI and Azure?
Your company utilizes a hybrid cloud architecture, connecting its on-premises network to an OCIVCN using a FastConnect private peering connection. You need to ensure that instances within a specific subnet in the VCN can only communicate with resources in a designated IP address range within the on-premises network. What is the MOST effective way to achieve this specific network isolation?
In a hybrid cloud migration, which OCI component is essential for dynamically routing traffic between on-premises networks and OCI Virtual Cloud Networks (VCNs), facilitating seamless communication?
You are automating the deployment of a highly available OKE cluster across multiple availability domains (ADs) using Terraform. The OKE cluster needs to communicate with a database service running on a Compute instance in a separate private subnet within the same VCN. During the Terraform deployment, you encounter an error indicating that the Kubernetes pods cannot resolve the private IP address of the database instance. You’ve verified that DNS resolution works correctly for other resources within the VCN. What is the MOST probable reason for this DNS resolutionfailure?
You have configured DNSSEC for your domain hosted on OCI DNS. You understand the importance of regularly rotating your Key Signing Key (KSK) to maintain security best practices. Which of the following statements regarding KSK rotation in OCI DNS is TRUE?
Your company is utilizing a multi-cloud architecture with applications running on both OCI and AWS. You have established a Site-to-Site VPN connection between OCI and AWS for secure communication. Over time, you observe that the VPN tunnel becomes unstable and frequently disconnects, particularly during peak hours. You suspect this is due to increased network latency and packet loss. Which action is least likely to improve the stability and reliability of your OCI-AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection in this scenario?
In a multi-tier architecture with multiple application instances across different private subnets, which Bastion service approach minimizes the need for continuous maintenance of individual session configurations?
You are managing an OCI Network Firewall that protects a VCN with multiple subnets. The application team reports intermittent connectivity issues to a specific application server behind the firewall. You suspect the issue might be related to the firewall’s stateful inspection. What would be the most efficient way to troubleshoot if the stateful inspection is causing these connectivity issues?
You are a Cloud Architect troubleshooting connectivity issues in your OCI environment. Your application servers, residing in private subnets within a VCN, need to access Object Storage within the same region to retrieve critical data. You have confirmed that there are no NSG rules blocking traffic between the subnets. However, the instances cannot access Object Storage. You have a Service Gateway configured, and route rules in the private subnets directing traffic for Oracle Services to the Service Gateway. What is the most likely cause of this issue?
When establishing cross-tenancy connectivity using Remote Peering Connections (RPCs), which IAM policy statement is essential to grant the requesting tenancy the ability to initiate the connection?
You are designing a multi-tier application within an OCI Virtual Cloud Network (VCN). The application comprises a public-facing web tier in one subnet, an application tier in another, and a database tier in a third. For security reasons, you want to ensure that only the application tier can initiate connections to the database tier. The web tier needs to be able to communicate with the application tier, but not directly with the database tier. You are using private IP addresses within your VCN. Which procedural step is MOST effective to achieve this network isolation?
You are setting up a FastConnect connection between your on-premises data center and OCI. You need to configure BGP to exchange routing information. You require OCI to always prefer the FastConnect path for traffic destined to your on-premises network, even if OCI learns about the same prefixes via the public internet. Which BGP attribute should you configure on the OCI side of the FastConnect connection to achieve this?
In a complex multi-region OCI environment using DRGs for transitive routing, which method is most efficient for ensuring that route updates from on-premises networks are propagated to all connected VCNs?
When migrating workloads requiring high availability and redundancy for on-premises connectivity to OCI, which approach is recommended?
You’re designing a multi-region deployment of your application on OCI. You want to use OCI’s global load balancing capabilities, but also require the WAF to protect against attacks close to the user. Which configuration provides the best balance between global load balancing and regional WAF protection?
Which OCI component facilitates transitive routing between VCNs in different regions via a dedicated, private network backbone, while also enabling connectivity to on-premises networks?
When migrating workloads from another cloud provider to OCI, what is a key consideration when choosing a connectivity strategy to ensure optimal network performance?
You have successfully enabled DNSSEC on your OCI DNS zone and provided the DS record to your domain registrar. However, when you test your DNS configuration using online DNSSEC validation tools, you are still seeing errors indicating that DNSSEC validation is failing. What is the most likely reason for this failure?
Your company needs to connect an on-premises data center to an OCI Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) to extend their existing infrastructure to the cloud. The connection MUST be secure, reliable, and provide consistent, low-latency access to resources in both environments. Resources in the OCI VCN need access to the on-premises servers, and resources in the on-premises data center need to access the compute instances located in a private subnet within the OCI VCN. Which is the MOST appropriate architectural design for establishing connectivity in this hybrid cloud environment, considering the available endpoints and gateway options in OCI?
In a Zero Trust network architecture, what is the primary purpose of implementing micro-segmentation within OCI VCNs?
When configuring transitive routing with a DRG across multiple VCNs and on-premises networks, which key configuration step ensures that traffic from one VCN is correctly routed through the DRG to an on-premises destination?
A financial services company is implementing a multicloud strategy, storing sensitive customer data in OCI due to its enhanced security features, running analytics workloads in AWS, and utilizing a SaaS application hosted in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). To comply with stringent data sovereignty regulations, the company requires that all traffic between OCI and AWS must transit exclusively within the United States. Which is the MOST critical consideration when choosing a connectivity solution to ensure compliance?
Your organization is migrating workloads to a multicloud environment using OCI, AWS, and Azure. You have applications that require access to on-premises resources and must maintain high security standards. Which connectivity configuration would provide the MOST secure and reliable access while adhering to best practices for a hybrid multicloud architecture?
You are troubleshooting a connectivity issue between two compute instances within the same VCN. Both instances are in different subnets. Instance A (IPv4: 10.0.1.10, IPv6: fc00:1:1::10) can ping its subnet gateway (10.0.1.1) and can ping the IPv6 address of Instance B (fc00:1:2::20), but cannot ping Instance B's IPv4 address (10.0.2.20). The security lists and network security groups (NSGs) are configured to allow all traffic between the subnets. The route table for Instance A’s subnet has a rule to route all traffic destined to 10.0.2.0/24 subnet to the VCN Local Peering Gateway. What is the most probable cause?
Your company is migrating its on-premises data center to OCI. A critical security requirement is to maintain centralized logging and auditing of all network traffic traversing the OCI Network Firewall. You need to ensure that every session that passes through the firewall is logged and can be analyzed for security events. Which OCI service should you configure in conjunction with the Network Firewall to achieve this centralized logging?
In a multi-tier application environment with geographically dispersed teams requiring access to private resources, how can an OCI Bastion service be optimized to reduce latency for remote users?
A development team has deployed a three-tier application in an OCI VCN. The application consists of a public-facing web tier, an application tier, and a database tier. The team reports that the web tier instances can communicate with the application tier instances, but the application tier instances cannot connect to the database tier instances. All security lists are configured to allow all traffic within the VCN. Which OCI Networking diagnostic tool would BEST help you quickly isolate the root cause of this connectivity issue?
You are designing a VCN in OCI to host a multi-tenant SaaS application. Each tenant requires a separate and isolated network segment for security and regulatory compliance. You are using a large CIDR block for the VCN. What is the most efficient procedural method for achieving network segmentation and isolation for each tenant, considering IP address utilization and ease of management?
You are troubleshooting a BGP peering issue between your on-premises router and an OCI FastConnect virtual circuit. You have verified the physical connectivity and confirmed that the BGP session is established. However, routes are not being exchanged. You suspect a problem with the BGP configuration. What is the MOST LIKELY cause of this issue, assuming the basic BGP configuration (AS numbers, peer IP addresses) is correct?
Your team is deploying a critical, highly available application that relies on accessing a MySQL Database Service instance within OCI. The application requires a stable and predictable endpoint for database connectivity, even during database failover events. Which endpoint configuration is most suitable to ensure seamless application connectivity in this high-availability scenario?
As a network security engineer, you are tasked with designing a highly secure architecture for a financial application running on OCI. You have deployed a Network Firewall to protect the application’s VCN. Due to regulatory compliance requirements, you need to ensure that no direct internet access is allowed to any compute instance within the application’s private subnet, even if it is misconfigured. You need to block all outbound traffic to the internet. Which Network Firewall rule action best accomplishes this goal?
When using Service Connector Hub to route VCN Flow Logs to Object Storage for long-term analysis, which Service Connector Hub task type is essential for ensuring the logs are correctly processed and stored?
You are designing a hybrid cloud architecture connecting your on-premises network to OCI. You have established a Site-to-Site VPN between your on-premises network and an OCI DRG. You have two VCNs attached to the DRG: VCN-A (10.0.0.0/16) and VCN-B (10.1.0.0/16). You need to ensure that only VCN-A can communicate with the on-premises network (192.168.1.0/24), while VCN-B should remain isolated. What is the MOST effective and secure method to achieve this connectivity requirement using DRG route tables?
When configuring a network appliance within a VCN to enable transitive routing, which of the following is essential to ensure traffic flows correctly between interconnected VCNs?
Your organization uses a combination of OCI and AWS. Applications in OCI frequently access services hosted in AWS. You are experiencing slow and inconsistent data transfer speeds when transferring large files between the two clouds. You have a Site-to-Site VPN, but are considering other options. Which option is NOT a valid design consideration for improving the data transfer performance between OCI and AWS?
Which OCI service facilitates the creation of a private connection between two VCNs located in different tenancies, without traversing the public internet?