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1Z0-1085-22 · Question #154

In what two Ways does Oracle cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offer industry leading price performance?

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Question

In what two Ways does Oracle cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offer industry leading price performance?

Options

  • AOCI leverages advanced encryption that results in fast performance
  • BWith OCI pricing is low and predictable across all region and services
  • COCI hypervisor provides industry leading performance
  • DOCI backs performance claims with service level Agreements
  • EOCI does not over subscribe CPU but only memory

How the community answered

(23 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    74% (17)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • E
    17% (4)

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Topics

#price-performance#SLAs#predictable pricing

Community Discussion

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Ingrid P.Ingrid P.Nov 21, 2025

B and D are your two correct answers here, and this is a card worth making because Oracle repeats this pairing constantly across their marketing and exam content. B captures the pricing side: OCI commits to low, predictable pricing across all regions and services, which directly contrasts with competitors who charge differently by region or tier. D covers the performance side: OCI does not just claim fast performance, they back it with SLAs, meaning there are contractual guarantees you can hold them to. The distractors are designed to trip you up because A and C sound plausible, but encryption speed and hypervisor design are not how Oracle frames their price-performance story in official documentation, and E confuses the CPU oversubscription policy (which OCI avoids) with memory oversubscription (which is a separate and more nuanced topic). Put B and D on one card as a pair, cue side "two ways OCI delivers price-performance," and you will have this locked before your next review interval.

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Anjali D.Anjali D.Nov 22, 2025

Our group landed on B and D pretty quickly once we stopped overthinking the word "price-performance," because that phrase is really two things bundled together: the price side and the performance side. B covers the price angle, since OCI is known for consistent, predictable pricing across regions without surprise surcharges the way some competitors layer on. D covers the performance credibility angle, because saying you have great performance means nothing unless Oracle is willing to put SLA commitments behind it. The options about the hypervisor and CPU oversubscription are real OCI facts, but they describe HOW performance is achieved technically, not HOW Oracle positions it as industry-leading price-performance to customers. My clarifying question for the group is this: does anyone have a clear sense of why the exam writers would exclude E about CPU oversubscription, given that Oracle actually does advertise no CPU oversubscription as a differentiator? Is it because the statement in E is factually incomplete or misleading (since OCI does not oversubscribe memory either), or is the issue that it just does not directly address pricing? Would love to hear how others are drawing that line.

5
Amara M.Amara M.Nov 25, 2025

The reason E gets cut is scope, not accuracy: the exam question asks what justifies the "price-performance" positioning claim, and CPU oversubscription avoidance explains a performance mechanism but does not speak to pricing at all, so it fails the "price" half of the two-part test even though the fact itself is real.

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Amara M.Amara M.Nov 1, 2025

B and D are the ones to lock in here. Low, predictable pricing across all regions removes the sticker-shock factor, and backing performance claims with SLAs means Oracle is actually putting contractual weight behind the promise rather than just marketing copy. Quick gut-check question though: do you understand why C is a trap, specifically what OCI does instead of relying on a hypervisor to differentiate performance?

3
Fatima Z.Fatima Z.Oct 24, 2025

Saw this exact Q in March, panicked, then remembered "Budget Deal" (B=Budget pricing, D=Deal-backed SLA) and locked in B and D without blinking.

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Anjali D.Anjali D.Oct 25, 2025

Nice anchor, Fatima, though our group mapped D to "Defined SLA" since the exam wording leans on "defined terms" more than "deal," so worth double-checking which phrasing your study materials use before test day.

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Viktor S.Viktor S.Nov 5, 2025

E is the one that actually explains a mechanism, not a marketing slogan, because not oversubscribing CPU means your workload gets the cores it paid for instead of fighting with 20 other tenants on the same physical socket, and that is literally why OCI benchmarks beat AWS and Azure on raw compute tasks. B is just "our prices are low" which every cloud vendor claims and tells you nothing about WHY performance is better.

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Amara M.Amara M.Nov 8, 2025

Viktor, the correct answers are B and D. OCI's lower cost per resource and the non-oversubscribed CPU claim (D, not E) both appear as listed competitive differentiators in the OCI docs, and the question is testing recognition of those two specific talking points, not which one has the deeper technical justification.

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