The OCI 2021 Architect Associate exam is designed for individuals who possess a strong foundation knowledge in architecting infrastructure using OCI services. This covers topics such as: Launching Bare Metal & Virtual Compute Instances, Instantiating a Load Balancer, Using Advanced Database features (Dataguard, BYOL, Data encryption, RAC, and EXADATA), Advanced Networking Concepts, Architecting Best Practices for HA and Security, Identity and Access Management, Networking, Compute, and Storage.