1Z0-083 · Question #264
Which three are true about Rapid Home Provisioning (RHP), which has been available since Oracle 18c?
The correct answer is A. It can be used to deploy Grid Infrastructure homes, including Oracle Restart. B. It can be used to deploy Oracle Database homes. F. It is an Oracle Grid Infrastructure service. The architecture within a data center consists of an Oracle Grid Infrastructure (12.2 or later) deployment running the Rapid Home Provisioning centralized Service(also referred to as the RHP Server, but in fact merely a service of the Grid Infrastructure) Rapid Home…
Question
Which three are true about Rapid Home Provisioning (RHP), which has been available since Oracle 18c?
Options
- AIt can be used to deploy Grid Infrastructure homes, including Oracle Restart.
- BIt can be used to deploy Oracle Database homes.
- CIt is an Oracle Database service.
- DIt cannot be used to provision applications.
- EIt cannot be used to provision middleware.
- FIt is an Oracle Grid Infrastructure service.
How the community answered
(22 responses)- A73% (16)
- C14% (3)
- D5% (1)
- E9% (2)
Explanation
The architecture within a data center consists of an Oracle Grid Infrastructure (12.2 or later) deployment running the Rapid Home Provisioning centralized Service(also referred to as the RHP Server, but in fact merely a service of the Grid Infrastructure) Rapid Home Provisioning and Maintenance enables you to install clusters, and provision, patch, scale, and upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure, Oracle Restart, and Oracle Database homes. The supported versions are 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, and 18c. You can also provision applications and middleware using Rapid Home Provisioning.
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Samuel O.Jan 15, 2026The correct answers are A, B, and F. RHP is a Grid Infrastructure service, not a Database service, which rules out C right away. I spent a good chunk of time early in my DBA career confusing where RHP actually lives in the stack, and the key thing to burn into your memory is that it runs under Clusterware, period. From there, A and B follow naturally because the whole point of RHP is to provision and patch GI homes and DB homes from a central gold image server, which is genuinely one of the better things Oracle has done for large fleet management. D and E are traps because RHP is actually capable of provisioning applications and middleware too, so both of those "cannot" statements are flat out wrong and will catch you if you only studied the database provisioning use case.
Grace U.Jan 2, 2026A, B, F, yes, RHP lives in Grid Infrastructure, not the database.
Otieno M.Jan 5, 2026Correct on all counts, and worth adding for the exam that rhpctl itself lives under the Grid Infrastructure home bin directory, so even when RHP is managing or patching an RDBMS home, the control plane is still firmly in GI, not the database home.
Otieno M.Jan 22, 2026Sat on C and D for a good thirty seconds because my brain kept saying "it lives in the CRS stack so it must be a database service" until I remembered the RHP server runs as a Grid Infrastructure service on the RHP server node, and that it ships apps and middleware too, which killed D and E fast.
Grace U.Jan 22, 2026That CRS association is the exact trap Oracle builds into those distractors, and the fastest way past it is remembering that Grid Infrastructure has been application-aware since 12c, so anything tied to RHP should immediately expand your mental scope beyond the database tier.