50 QUESTIONS 90 MINUTES 68% PASSING SCORE $245 EXAM FEE 7 TOPIC AREAS Prepared by DBExam • www.dbexam.com Oracle • OCI Multicloud • 1Z0-1146 C E R T I F I C A T I O N G U I D E Exadata, Inside AWS Inside the Oracle AI Database@AWS Architect Professional Certification (1Z0-1146) Seven exam topic areas with their official weightings and all 24 objectives, laid out as a study checklist - plus the full exam fact sheet, who the credential is really built for, what Oracle database architects are paid in 2026, a five-step route from first read to booked seat, and ten real sample questions with a complete answer key. www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-1146 Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional 1 S E C T I O N 0 1 Exam Overview The Oracle AI Database@AWS Architect Professional certification covers Oracle's database services running on Oracle-operated Exadata infrastructure inside AWS Availability Zones. It does not test whether you can describe multicloud - it tests whether you can onboard the service, design the ODB network and its peering, provision Exadata and Autonomous resources, migrate into them, and build the availability, recovery and security around them. Everything below comes from the official 1Z0-1146 exam page and DBExam's 1Z0-1146 exam syllabus page. Certification track Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Credential Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional Exam number and title 1Z0-1146 - Oracle AI Database AWS Architect Professional Number of questions 50 Exam duration 90 minutes Question format Multiple choice, including multiple-select Passing score 68% Exam fee USD 245 (pricing varies by country and currency) Delivery Oracle University, on the MyLearn platform Product covered Oracle AI Database@AWS Recommended training Become an Oracle AI Database@AWS Architect Professional learning path Two details are worth pinning down before you book. First, the exam title says Oracle AI Database@AWS while the topic list still says Oracle Database@AWS - they are the same service, so match on the service, not the label. Second, unlike many Oracle Cloud exams this one publishes its weightings , and two areas carry 40% of the marks between them. Purchase and scheduling run through Oracle University. www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-1146 Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional 2 S E C T I O N 0 2 Who This Exam Is Built For Read the blueprint and four kinds of practitioner fall out of it. None of them is a beginner: the questions assume you already know Oracle Database and are now deciding where and how it runs inside AWS. Cloud Architects Database Administrators Network Engineers Migration Leads Oracle's recommended route is the Become an Oracle AI Database@AWS Architect Professional learning path on MyLearn. The exam leans on both sides of the partnership - VPCs, ODB peering connections, IAM roles and AWS KMS on one side; OCI tenancies, identity domains, Data Guard and Zero Downtime Migration on the other - so candidates who know only one cloud have the most ground to cover. The wider Oracle catalogue sits on the DBExam Oracle hub. S E C T I O N 0 3 The Seven Topic Areas Oracle publishes percentage weightings for this exam, so there is no need to guess where the marks sit. Architecture and Onboarding and Provision and Operate carry 20% each; Networking, Migration and Security carry 15% each. On a fifty-question paper that is roughly ten questions apiece for the two heaviest areas and only two or three for the multicloud introduction. Plan your study time accordingly. Oracle Database@AWS Architecture and Onboarding 20% Provision and Operate Oracle Database@AWS Resources 20% Configure Oracle Database@AWS Networking 15% Migrate Oracle Databases to Oracle Database@AWS 15% Secure Oracle Database@AWS 15% HA and DR with Oracle Database@AWS 10% Introduction to Multicloud 5% Official weightings as published on the 1Z0-1146 exam syllabus, sorted from heaviest to lightest. The full objective list follows, straight from the 1Z0-1146 syllabus. Read it as a checklist - if you cannot demonstrate a line in a real AWS account linked to an OCI tenancy, that is a study item. 01. Introduction to Multicloud (5%) • Explain multicloud and its benefits • Explain common multicloud use cases and their implementation in OCI www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-1146 Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional 3 02. Oracle Database@AWS Architecture and Onboarding (20%) • Explain Oracle Database@AWS and its architecture • Explain Oracle Database services in Oracle Database@AWS • Configure the prerequisites for Oracle Database@AWS onboarding • Understand procurement for Oracle Database@AWS 03. Configure Oracle Database@AWS Networking (15%) • Explain Oracle Database@AWS ODB network design • Describe supported network topologies for Oracle Database@AWS • Configure DNS for Oracle Database@AWS 04. Provision and Operate Oracle Database@AWS Resources (20%) • Understand how to create and configure an ODB network and ODB peering connection • Provision Oracle Exadata infrastructure, Exadata VM cluster and Autonomous VM cluster • Create an Exadata Database and its components • Create an Autonomous Container Database and Autonomous Database • Explain the backup and restore processes for Oracle Database@AWS • Configure monitoring and observability for Oracle Database@AWS 05. Migrate Oracle Databases to Oracle Database@AWS (15%) • Understand Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) • Explain ZDM workflows to migrate Oracle Databases to Exadata on Oracle Database@AWS • Explain ZDM workflows to migrate Oracle Databases to Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@AWS 06. HA and DR with Oracle Database@AWS (10%) • Design High Availability with Oracle Database@AWS • Configure Disaster Recovery with Oracle Database@AWS 07. Secure Oracle Database@AWS (15%) • Understand Identity and Access Management for Oracle Database@AWS • Explain data protection in Oracle Database@AWS • Describe security controls in Oracle Database@AWS • Understand OCI well-architected pillars for Oracle Database@AWS www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-1146 Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional 4 S E C T I O N 0 4 What the Credential Is Worth This credential sits where two well-paid specialisms meet. Across the US market in 2026 an Oracle database architect averages roughly $144,000 a year, with most salaries between $118,000 and $160,000 and the top tenth near $184,000. Oracle cloud architect roles are advertised in the $130,000 to $165,500 band. On the administration side, Oracle DBAs earn $95,000 to $215,000 base, and specialists in RAC, Exadata and GoldenGate are reported at $190,000 to $230,000 before any cloud premium is added - and Exadata, Data Guard and migration tooling are exactly what this blueprint is built on. Why this exam, specifically • It is an architect-tier credential: proof you can design the deployment, not just operate a database inside it. • It covers the ODB network, peering and DNS - the parts multicloud projects actually get stuck on. • It maps to real platform surface: Exadata and Autonomous VM clusters, container databases, ZDM, Data Guard, AWS KMS. • It spans both clouds, which is rarer than deep skill in either one. There is a practical angle too. Enterprises with years of Oracle estate and an AWS application platform no longer have to choose between them, and the people who can plan that move - ODB network layout, peering limits, migration method, standby placement - are in short supply on both sides of the partnership. S E C T I O N 0 5 Getting Certified, Step by Step www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-1146 Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional 5 1 Read the official exam topics end to end Seven topic areas, 24 objectives. Mark every line you cannot demonstrate hands-on. 2 Work the Oracle AI Database@AWS learning path Oracle University's architect path on MyLearn, plus the product documentation for the areas it does not reach. 3 Study in proportion to the weightings Onboarding and provisioning are 40% of the paper. Networking, migration and security are another 45%. 4 Rehearse under exam conditions Fifty questions in 90 minutes - under two minutes each. Practise long scenario questions, not recall questions. 5 Book through Oracle University Delivered on MyLearn. Passing bar is 68%; book once you are comfortably above it. For step four, DBExam's 1Z0-1146 practice exam mirrors the real format so you can find the gaps before the exam does. Recommended training runs through the Become an Oracle AI Database@AWS Architect Professional learning path on Oracle MyLearn. S E C T I O N 0 6 Oracle 1Z0-1146 Exam Sample Questions These ten questions come from DBExam's 1Z0-1146 sample questions page, presented here in shuffled order. Note their shape: every one is a scenario with a decision in it - which peering plan, which service tier, what has to exist before a KMS key can be used - and the wrong options are plausible. Two ask for two answers. The answer key is at the end of the section. www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-1146 Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional 6 Q1. A bank is preparing an Exadata VM cluster on Oracle AI Database@AWS to use AWS KMS for TDE master keys. The cloud team has already created a symmetric customer-managed key with encrypt and decrypt usage in the AWS account that owns the ODB network, and has confirmed the ODB network is in place. The database administrators ask what else must exist before a database on this VM cluster can take its master key from that AWS KMS key. (choose two) a) An ingress entry for the AWS KMS endpoint added to the Oracle-managed EXA_STATIC_NSG so the database can reach the key service with no identity provider in the path. b) An OCI identity domain, acting as the identity provider that authenticates the database for access to AWS KMS. c) An OCI Vault key in the same compartment as the VM cluster, holding a copy of the master key for local unwrap operations. d) A downloadable connection wallet distributed to the database clients so that key requests travel over TLS. e) An IAM role associated to the VM cluster, which attaches the identity connector. Q2. An insurer is consolidating its departmental Oracle databases onto Oracle AI Database@AWS. It has already selected Oracle Autonomous AI Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure. Each department must keep its own database with an independent lifecycle, and the architect is now working out how the estate is laid out within the service. Which structure should the architect plan? a) An Autonomous VM cluster on the Exadata infrastructure, Autonomous Container Databases on that cluster, and each department's database inside a container. b) An Autonomous Container Database for each department, created directly on the Exadata infrastructure, with an Autonomous VM cluster added afterwards for the databases that need one. c) Separate Exadata infrastructure for each department, each carrying its own Autonomous VM cluster and its own Autonomous Container Databases, so that no two departments share any layer of the deployment at all. d) A single Autonomous AI Database on the cluster, with each department's workload created as a schema inside it. www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-1146 Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional 7 Q3. A healthcare provider has two ODB networks in the same AWS region, one in each of two Availability Zones, and each hosts an Exadata VM Cluster. A single shared services VPC carries the middle tier and has to reach the VM cluster in both zones. The platform owner has also asked for a second, independent connection into the zone that carries the production workload, so that a path remains if one is withdrawn during maintenance. Which peering plan can actually be built? a) One ODB peering connection from the shared services VPC to each of the two ODB networks, with no second peering into the production ODB network. b) Two ODB peering connections from the shared services VPC into the production ODB network, plus one into the other ODB network. c) One ODB peering connection into the production ODB network, and an Amazon VPC peering connection into the other ODB network. d) A single ODB peering connection from the shared services VPC, shared by both ODB networks through the transit gateway. Q4. A pharmaceutical company is choosing a service for a new clinical-data application. The team has stated in writing that it will not patch an operating system or tune a database, and no DBA capacity is funded. A governance rule separately forbids the workload from sharing database infrastructure with any other tenant. The application is a conventional OLTP schema with no operating-system dependencies. Which Oracle Database@AWS service meets both constraints? a) Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless, which Oracle describes as fully managed and serverless, with automatic provisioning and elastic scaling, and which removes the administration the team has ruled out. b) Oracle Autonomous AI Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, which removes the operating-system and database administration the team has ruled out while running on Exadata infrastructure dedicated to the company. c) Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, which gives the company Exadata infrastructure of its own in the availability zone, and keeps the workload off infrastructure shared with any other tenant. d) Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure, which is one of the four services offered on Oracle Database@AWS, alongside the Dedicated Infrastructure form and the two Autonomous AI Database services. www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-1146 Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional 8 Q5. Minutes after the first ODB network and VM cluster are created, the application team reports that nothing in its VPC can reach the database listener. The corporate network cannot reach it either, and neither can a test from the internet. An incident has been raised against the build. What should the architect conclude? a) Provisioning has not finished: the database listeners register only once the Exadata infrastructure reports itself available, and the incident should be held until that completes. b) The multicloud link between the AWS account and the OCI tenancy has not completed, so the ODB network has no path to the OCI child site or the subnets and network components that back it. c) Nothing is faulty: an ODB network is private and isolated, with no connectivity to AWS VPCs, on-premises networks or the internet until connectivity is added deliberately. d) The application VPC's route tables are missing the ODB network's routes; these propagate automatically once the first VM cluster in the network reaches the available state, so the route tables, and the corporate router's tables, need refreshing and the test repeating before the incident is closed. Q6. An insurer's applications run in a peered Amazon VPC and must connect to the Exadata VM Cluster by host name rather than by address. Separately, a nightly job that runs on the database hosts has to resolve an internal name published in a private DNS zone attached to that same VPC. The architect is finalizing the client subnet plan before the ODB network is created, and needs name resolution to work in both directions from day one. Which two items should the plan include? (choose two) a) One extra SCAN address in the client subnet for each VM cluster, so that database host names resolve from the AWS side without a DNS endpoint. b) An OCI DNS listening endpoint, which accepts queries arriving from the AWS side and consumes one client subnet address. c) A second ODB peering connection between the VPC and the ODB network, dedicated to DNS queries. d) A DNS forwarding endpoint, which sends queries from the OCI side out to AWS and consumes one further client subnet address. e) Static A records in the VPC's private DNS zone for every database VM address, which consumes no client subnet allowance on the OCI side, refreshed whenever a VM is replaced. www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-1146 Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional 9 Q7. After a hardening review, a network team narrowed the DNS path between an application VPC and its ODB network so that only UDP on port 53 remains permitted; TCP on port 53 was withdrawn as unused. Short lookups still succeed, but resolution of the database service names now fails intermittently. The change was made in the team's own VPC-side policy rather than on the ODB network, and they have confirmed that the OCI DNS listening endpoint is healthy and the ODB peering connection is up. What should the architect recommend? a) Add a DNS forwarding endpoint, which consumes one more client subnet address, so that queries leaving the application VPC are answered from the OCI side and not by AWS. b) Move DNS traffic to port 443, which the ODB network's service integration rules already permit. c) Add a rule to the Oracle-managed DNS_NSG that re-admits TCP on port 53, accepting that the rule may be removed, modified or re-applied when the ODB network is next modified or updated. d) Restore TCP on port 53, because the ODB network's DNS rules cover port 53 over both TCP and UDP. Q8. After a contract renegotiation, a bank's board has asked architecture to reduce the risk of depending on a single provider for the core banking system of record. The application tier already runs on AWS and will stay there. The database team is four DBAs. They have stated that they cannot take on hardware, firmware or Exadata platform operations, and the system of record must keep the Oracle Database features the bank relies on today. Which approach satisfies the board's requirement within the team's capacity? a) Deliver the system of record through the multicloud service that places Oracle-operated Exadata infrastructure inside the AWS region, so the database platform is operated by Oracle while the application estate, and the commercial transaction for the database, stay with AWS. b) Re-platform the core banking data onto an AWS-native database engine, removing the Oracle dependency altogether, and rebuild the features the downstream systems consume in application code. c) Run Oracle Database on EC2 instances that the bank patches and administers itself, so that no provider operates the core banking platform, and the application tier, the system of record and the operations beneath them all stay inside AWS. d) Move the application tier to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure so that the application and its database are operated by one provider. www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-1146 Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional 10 Q9. A media company connects a fleet of containerized application instances to an Exadata Database Service database on Oracle AI Database@AWS. The platform team's standard forbids any file-based credential or keystore being present in a container image, in a mounted secret, or on a container's file system. The security policy separately requires that traffic between application and database be encrypted with AES-256 where the client supports it. Connections are being configured now, and nothing has been changed from the defaults on the database side. Which connection configuration satisfies both the platform standard and the security policy? a) Connect over TCPS on port 2484, baking the downloaded connection wallet into each container image at build time. b) Connect over TCP and rely on Oracle native network encryption, which negotiates AES-256, AES-192 or AES-128 and needs no wallet, so that nothing has to be distributed to the containers. c) Connect over TCP and add an ingress rule for SQL*Net to the Oracle-managed EXA_1521_ADJUSTABLE_NSG, restricting the source to the container subnet, and accepting that the rule may be reverted when the ODB network is next modified. d) Connect over TCPS on port 2484, and have each container fetch the connection wallet from an Amazon S3 bucket at start-up, leaving the image itself without a keystore. Q10. A migration lead circulates a plan for moving several Oracle databases onto Oracle AI Database@AWS with Zero Downtime Migration. The plan states that ZDM will be procured and driven from the AWS console alongside the company's other AWS migration tooling, and describes ZDM as a replication engine that captures and applies changes itself, so that the team no longer needs skills in Oracle's own migration technologies. Which correction should the architect make to the plan? a) ZDM reaches the company through AWS Marketplace as part of the Oracle Database@AWS private offer, and is operated from the AWS console once the AWS account has been linked to the OCI tenancy by multicloud linking, alongside the other migration tooling the company already runs there. b) ZDM supports Autonomous targets on Oracle Database@AWS only; Exadata targets are migrated with RMAN, Data Guard or transportable tablespaces used directly instead. c) ZDM is Oracle's own migration automation: it orchestrates RMAN and Data Guard on its physical workflows and Data Pump and GoldenGate on its logical ones, and it is driven from the Oracle side even though the target hardware sits in an AWS Availability Zone. d) ZDM is a replication engine in its own right, which is why it is planned and licensed separately from RMAN, Data Guard, transportable tablespaces, Data Pump and GoldenGate, and why it captures and applies the changes itself rather than driving RMAN or GoldenGate. Answer key Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 b, e a a b c b, d d a b c www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-1146 Oracle AI Database AWS Certified Architect Professional 11 S E C T I O N 0 7 Where to Go Next First-hand experience is the scarce resource for a service this new - read what practitioners are running into on the Oracle community before you book; ODB peering limits, DNS resolution across the two clouds and migration cutovers all surface there before they reach the documentation. The DBExam 1Z0-1146 exam page keeps the syllabus, sample questions and practice exams in one place. Quick reference • Official exam page — mylearn.oracle.com • Exam syllabus + practice test — dbexam.com/oracle • Community threads — forums.oracle.com • Scheduling — oracle.com/education/training/buy Before you book — the guide in one card Exam number 1Z0-1146 Passing score 68% Questions 50 Duration 90 minutes Fee USD 245 Delivery Oracle University / MyLearn Topic areas 7 Objectives 24 Heaviest areas Onboarding; Provisioning (20% each) Next heaviest Networking; Migration; Security (15% each) Good luck - and remember what the blueprint is really asking: not "what is multicloud?", but "can you put an Oracle database inside AWS, connect it, protect it, and move the old one into it without anyone noticing?"