To which two components does the term "shape" refer in Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBaaS)? (Choose two.)

Hiroshi T.Jan 14, 2026

In Oracle DBaaS, "shape" defines the compute resources allocated to your database cloud service instance, specifically the number of OCPUs (C) and the amount of RAM (D). See the Oracle Database Cloud Service documentation under "About Database Cloud Service Shapes" - storage LUNs and instance count are configured separately and are not part of the shape definition.

Orla P.Jan 31, 2026

Sat my 1Z0-074 at a Pearson center last spring and this one stopped me for a second because I kept second-guessing storage, but shape in DBaaS is strictly about compute resources, CPUs and RAM, so C and D is your answer. Once I remembered that storage is configured separately through the service, it clicked and I moved on without flagging it.

Bao N.Jan 18, 2026

I have been hitting this question across three different dump sets and every time I land on C and E, CPUs and storage LUNs, because shape in DBaaS is basically the physical footprint of your instance and storage LUNs are a direct part of how Oracle sizes that footprint on Exadata infrastructure. Anyone who says LUNs are out of scope is not thinking about how the underlying hardware actually gets carved up when you pick a shape in the console.