Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2026 AI Foundations Associate

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2026 AI Foundations Associate Exam Format

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Everything the official exam blueprint specifies: question count, time limit, scoring and the weight each domain carries. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2026 AI Foundations Associate certification is designed to validate a candidate's fundamental understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning principles within the Oracle Cloud ecosystem. Updated for 2026, it covers Deep Learning, Generative AI (LLMs), and Oracle's unique AI service offerings.

40 questions
60 min
65% to pass
6 domains

Exam facts at a glance

What we know about this exam, and where the information comes from.

SpecificationValue
Questions40
Time limit60 minutes (90s per question)
Passing score65%
Domains6
LevelAssociate
Question bank here40 questions
SourceCertilum's own record — the vendor does not publish this figure

Official domain weights

The percentage of the exam each domain carries. Weight your revision by these numbers, not by what you find hardest.

DomainWeightTopicsPractice Qs
AI Foundations12%
  • What is AI, narrow vs general AI
  • AI use cases by industry
  • Relationship between AI, ML, and DL
  • +3 more
5
OCI AI Portfolio20%
  • OCI AI Language service
  • OCI AI Vision service
  • OCI AI Speech service
  • +6 more
8
Deep Learning Foundations14%
  • Artificial neural networks
  • Activation functions
  • Backpropagation and gradient descent
  • +2 more
6
Machine Learning Foundations18%
  • Supervised learning - regression and classification
  • Model evaluation - accuracy, precision, recall, F1, RMSE, R-squared
  • Overfitting, underfitting, bias-variance tradeoff
  • +3 more
7
Generative AI and Large Language Models24%
  • Generative vs discriminative AI
  • Tokenization and embeddings
  • Context window and Transformer architecture
  • +6 more
9
OCI Generative AI Service and Oracle 23ai12%
  • OCI Generative AI managed service
  • Hosted Cohere and Meta Llama models
  • Dedicated AI clusters
  • +4 more
5

The heaviest domain is AI Foundations at 12%, and that is where lost points cost you the most. Certilum scores you per domain so you can see the difference between a knowledge gap and a formatting problem.

Note from the vendor record: Foundations-level exam (AI Foundations Associate): the official page shows 'Exam Price: Free' and 'Register for free'. The official attempt value is US$245 (Delta $125) when purchased; the price may vary by region. Official exam page

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