1Z0-1072-20 · Question #234
You have compartments C and D under the root compartment in your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy; compartment C contains a sub-compartment also named D. You are trying to move this…
The correct answer is C. Both parent and child compartments cannot have the same name. https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Tasks/managingcompartments.htm (restriction on moving compartments)
Question
You have compartments C and D under the root compartment in your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy; compartment C contains a sub-compartment also named D. You are trying to move this sub-compartment D to the parent compartment D like shown in the picture, but the move fails. What is the reason for this error?
Options
- AYou need to move all the compartments in the hierarchy to the new parent compartment.
- BYou cannot move a subcompartment to another parent compartment.
- CBoth parent and child compartments cannot have the same name.
- DSub-compartment D needs to be empty before it can be moved.
How the community answered
(21 responses)- A14% (3)
- B10% (2)
- C71% (15)
- D5% (1)
Explanation
https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Tasks/managingcompartments.htm (restriction on moving compartments)
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Community Discussion
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Dervla O.Dec 11, 2025The correct answer is C. OCI enforces the rule that within a given parent compartment, no two direct children can share the same name, so if the destination compartment D already exists at that level, the move is blocked because it would create a naming collision.
Grace U.Nov 27, 2025I picked D, but seeing two D's made C click.
Ingrid P.Dec 2, 2025C is right, and this is a card-worthy rule: OCI enforces unique names among sibling compartments within the same parent, so once you move sub-compartment D under parent compartment D, you would have two siblings named D at that level, which the system rejects outright. The rename-before-move workaround is the clean fix here, and the name uniqueness constraint applies at each level of the hierarchy, not globally across the tenancy.
Toby R.Nov 14, 2025D is the trap here because OCI does require compartments to be empty to delete them, so your brain wants to go there, but the actual blocker is C, names within the same parent have to be unique and you already have a D sitting directly under root. The exam was pretty direct about this rule, no tricks in the scenario itself.