60 QUESTIONS 120 MINUTES 65% PASSING SCORE $245 EXAM FEE 13 TOPIC AREAS Prepared by DBExam • www.dbexam.com Oracle • Oracle Database • 1Z0-182 C E R T I F I C A T I O N G U I D E Start It, Secure It, Run It Inside the Oracle AI Database Administration Associate Certification (1Z0-182) Thirteen exam topic areas with their official weightings and all 34 objectives, laid out as a study checklist - plus the full exam fact sheet, who the credential is really built for, what Oracle DBAs 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 1Z0-182 Oracle AI Database Administration Certified Associate 1 S E C T I O N 0 1 Exam Overview The Oracle AI Database Administration Associate certification is Oracle's entry credential for database administrators. It does not test whether you can describe a database - it tests whether you can start and stop an instance, read the dictionary and dynamic views, configure Oracle Net, manage users, tablespaces, storage and undo, move data, create and manage pluggable databases, audit activity and take the first steps in performance diagnosis. Everything below comes from the official 1Z0-182 exam page and DBExam's 1Z0-182 exam syllabus page. Certification track Oracle Database Credential Oracle AI Database Administration Certified Associate Exam number and title 1Z0-182 - Oracle AI Database Administration Associate Number of questions 60 Exam duration 120 minutes Question format Multiple choice, including multiple-select Passing score 65% Exam fee USD 245 (pricing varies by country and currency) Delivery Oracle University, on the MyLearn platform Product covered Oracle AI Database Recommended training Earn the Oracle AI Database Administration Associate Credential learning path Two details are worth pinning down before you book. First, despite the "AI" in the title the syllabus is core DBA work - architecture, instances, storage, users, PDBs - though one sample question does ask what a vector embedding is, so the basics of AI Vector Search are worth a read. Second, Oracle publishes the weightings , and with thirteen areas no single one carries more than 15%. Purchase and scheduling run through Oracle University. www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-182 Oracle AI Database Administration Certified Associate 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. This is an associate exam, so it suits people building their first DBA foundation as well as developers and administrators who need to prove the fundamentals. Junior DBAs Database Developers System Administrators Cloud Engineers Oracle's recommended route is the Earn the Oracle AI Database Administration Associate Credential learning path on MyLearn. The paper is long - sixty questions in two hours - and broad, so steady hands-on practice with a real container database beats memorising any one area. The wider Oracle catalogue sits on the DBExam Oracle hub. S E C T I O N 0 3 The Thirteen Topic Areas Oracle publishes percentage weightings for this exam, so there is no need to guess where the marks sit. Managing Database Instances is the heaviest area at 15%; architecture, users and privileges, tablespaces, storage and PDBs carry 10% each; and the remaining seven areas carry 5% apiece. On a sixty-question paper that is about nine questions on instances and three on each 5% area. Plan your study time accordingly. Describe Managing Database Instances 15% Describe Oracle Database Architecture 10% Managing Users, Roles and Privileges 10% Managing Tablespaces and Datafiles 10% Managing Storage 10% Displaying Creating and Managing PDBs 10% Employ Oracle supplied Database Tools 5% Configuring Oracle Net Services 5% Managing Undo 5% Moving Data 5% Introduction to Auditing 5% Automated Maintenance 5% Introduction to Performance 5% Official weightings as published on the 1Z0-182 exam syllabus, sorted from heaviest to lightest. www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-182 Oracle AI Database Administration Certified Associate 3 The full objective list follows, straight from the 1Z0-182 syllabus. Read it as a checklist - if you cannot demonstrate a line on a real container database, that is a study item. 01. Describe Oracle Database Architecture (10%) • Describe Oracle Database Instance Configurations • Identify Oracle Database Memory and Process Structures • Identify Logical and Physical Database Structures 02. Employ Oracle supplied Database Tools (5%) • Identify and Use the Oracle Supplied Database Tools 03. Describe Managing Database Instances (15%) • Demonstrate Startup and Shutdown Procedures for an Oracle Database • Utilize System Provided Dynamic Performance and Dictionary Views • Use the Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) and Logs • Identify and Apply Initialization Parameter Files 04. Configuring Oracle Net Services (5%) • Identify the Net Services Administration Components • Describe Net Services Connection Methods 05. Managing Users, Roles and Privileges (10%) • Describe and Utilize User Security Measures for an Oracle Database 06. Managing Tablespaces and Datafiles (10%) • Create, Modify, and Describe Tablespaces • Recognize and Describe Data Storage and Placement 07. Managing Storage (10%) • Explain Resumable Space Allocation • Describe and Use Segment Space Saving • Recognize and Define Segment Characteristics of Storage • Identify Requirements for Block Space Management www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-182 Oracle AI Database Administration Certified Associate 4 08. Managing Undo (5%) • Apply using Undo Data in an Oracle Database • Compare Undo Data and Redo Data • Explain the Usage of Temporary Undo 09. Moving Data (5%) • Explain the usage of External Tables • Recognize Oracle Data Pump Execution Options • Distinguish SQL*Loader Commands 10. Displaying Creating and Managing PDBs (10%) • Creating PDBs from the Seed • Explain Techniques for Creating PDBs • Modify Modes and Attributes for PDBs 11. Introduction to Auditing (5%) • Describe Database Auditing • Create, Modify and Maintain Database Auditing • Apply Value Based and FGA 12. Automated Maintenance (5%) • Describe Automated Database Maintenance • Apply Value Based and Fine Grain Auditing 13. Introduction to Performance (5%) • Summarize Oracle Database Performance Management • Measure Database Performance • Describe SQL Statement Executions, Plans, Directives and Advisors www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-182 Oracle AI Database Administration Certified Associate 5 S E C T I O N 0 4 What the Credential Is Worth Oracle database administration remains one of the steadiest specialisms in IT. A 2026 recruiter salary guide puts US Oracle DBAs at $95,000 to $215,000 base, with a senior placed-base median around $168,000 , and RAC, Exadata and GoldenGate specialists reaching $190,000 to $230,000. An associate credential sits at the start of that ladder: it is the foundation the professional DBA and specialist exams build on. Why this exam, specifically • It is the foundation tier: proof you know how an Oracle database is put together and run. • It covers multitenant and PDBs - the model every current Oracle release uses. • It maps to real product surface: SQL*Plus and DBCA, ADR, Oracle Net, Data Pump, unified auditing, ADDM. • It is the first step toward professional and specialist Oracle Database credentials. There is a practical angle too. Cloud services automate patching and backups, but someone still has to understand why a tablespace is full, which user can see which rows, and what a performance report is really saying. The fundamentals this exam covers are the ones every later Oracle skill rests on. S E C T I O N 0 5 Getting Certified, Step by Step 1 Read the official exam topics end to end Thirteen topic areas, 34 objectives. Mark every line you cannot demonstrate hands-on. 2 Work the AI Database Administration path Oracle University's learning path on MyLearn, plus the Database Administrator's Guide for the areas it does not reach. 3 Build a container database Create it with DBCA, add PDBs from the seed and by cloning, configure the listener, then create users, roles and tablespaces. 4 Rehearse under exam conditions Sixty questions in 120 minutes - two minutes each. Several questions ask for two or three answers, so read every stem carefully. 5 Book through Oracle University Delivered on MyLearn. Passing bar is 65%; book once you are comfortably above it. www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-182 Oracle AI Database Administration Certified Associate 6 For step four, DBExam's 1Z0-182 practice exam mirrors the real format so you can find the gaps before the exam does. Recommended training runs through the Earn the Oracle AI Database Administration Associate Credential learning path on Oracle MyLearn. S E C T I O N 0 6 Oracle 1Z0-182 Exam Sample Questions These ten questions come from DBExam's 1Z0-182 sample questions page, presented here in shuffled order. Note their shape: a mix of short concept checks and practical DBA situations, and four of the ten ask for more than one answer - three ask for two and one asks for three. The answer key is at the end of the section. Q1. Which memory structure temporarily holds the change vectors (redo entries) that describe modifications to the database before they are written to disk? a) The database buffer cache b) The large pool c) The shared pool d) The redo log buffer Q2. During a design discussion, a colleague asks what an embedding actually captures about a piece of text or an image. What does a vector embedding represent? a) A compressed backup copy of the item's source row b) The item's meaning encoded as an array of numbers c) The physical block address of the stored value d) A one-way hash value generated to enforce a uniqueness constraint Q3. To follow separation of duties, a DBA wants a dedicated administrator who can manage the TDE keystore and encryption keys without holding full SYSDBA control of the database. Which approach best fits this goal? a) Grant SYSDBA, since key management requires full administrative control b) Grant the DBA role, which is assumed to include keystore administration c) Grant a profile that permits keystore operations d) Grant the administrative privilege dedicated to key management Q4. User A grants a table's SELECT object privilege to user B with the grant option, and user B then grants the same privilege to user C. User A later revokes the privilege from user B. What happens to user C's access? a) User C also loses the privilege, because object-privilege grants cascade on revoke b) The revoke fails until user C's privilege is revoked first c) User C keeps the privilege, because each object-privilege grant is independent once made d) User C keeps the privilege until user B's account is dropped www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-182 Oracle AI Database Administration Certified Associate 7 Q5. When a pluggable database is unplugged from its container database, Oracle produces a descriptor that another CDB later uses to plug it in. What does this descriptor contain? a) The common users and roles from the root container. b) A complete copy of all the PDB's data blocks stored inside the descriptor file. c) Metadata describing the PDB and the location of its datafiles. d) The redo generated by the PDB since it was created. Q6. Performance was poor during last night's batch window. The DBA wants an automated analysis that names the top root-cause findings for that period and recommends corrective actions, without manually reading raw statistics. Which approach best meets this need? a) Query dynamic performance (V$) views to inspect current session activity. b) Create a SQL Plan Baseline so the optimizer reports the slow statements. c) Review the ADDM analysis for that period, which reports top findings and recommends actions. d) Generate an AWR report for the interval and manually read through the raw statistics to locate the root cause. Q7. Most services register with the listener dynamically, but a DBA is identifying situations that call for static service registration in the listener configuration file. Which two situations are valid reasons to configure a static registration entry? (choose two) a) To remove the need to ever start the listener. b) To allow a management tool to start the instance remotely while it is down. c) To support a tool that expects the service to be listed even when the instance is not registered. d) To let the instance register its services automatically at startup. e) To make routine client connections faster during normal operation. Q8. A DBA must run the Database Configuration Assistant where a graphical display is available on one server but the operation has to be automated on many others. Which two ways can DBCA be invoked to create a database? (choose two) a) By editing the control file directly to register a new database. b) In interactive mode through its graphical wizard. c) By running Oracle Universal Installer with a create-database flag. d) By issuing a listener control command that provisions a database. e) In silent mode driven by a response file. www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-182 Oracle AI Database Administration Certified Associate 8 Q9. Immediately after installing the Oracle Database software on a new server, a DBA performs required steps before creating a database. Which two are legitimate post-installation configuration activities? (choose two) a) Issuing a media-recovery command to open the freshly installed binaries. b) Running the configuration scripts the installer prompts to execute with elevated privileges. c) Loading production data with a direct-path load before the database exists. d) Dropping the SYSTEM tablespace to reclaim installation disk space. e) Configuring a listener so that clients can connect to databases on the server. Q10. On a standalone server, Oracle Restart is configured and a DBA administers its resources with srvctl. Which three component types can be registered with and managed by Oracle Restart? (choose three) a) A single SQL execution plan. b) The database instance. c) An individual user's schema objects. d) The Oracle Net listener. e) A tablespace's undo retention setting. f) An Oracle ASM instance. Answer key Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 d b d a c c b, c b, e b, e b, d, f S E C T I O N 0 7 Where to Go Next Read what other DBAs are asking on the Oracle community before you book - multitenant and Oracle Net questions surface there constantly. The DBExam 1Z0-182 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 www.dbexam.com Oracle 1Z0-182 Oracle AI Database Administration Certified Associate 9 Before you book — the guide in one card Exam number 1Z0-182 Passing score 65% Questions 60 Duration 120 minutes Fee USD 245 Delivery Oracle MyLearn Topic areas 13 Objectives 34 Heaviest area Database Instances (15%) Level Associate Good luck - the blueprint is really asking one thing: do you understand the database well enough to be trusted with it?