Your company is migrating an on-premises application to OCI. The application requires direct, low-latency access to an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database. You’ve established a FastConnect connection between your on-premises network and an OCI VCN via a Dynamic Routing Gateway(DRG). You want to access this database from the OCI VCN. Which type of endpoint, in conjunction with appropriate routing, should you use to facilitate this connection?
Your company is migrating several applications to OCI and requires a highly available and resilient VPN connection between your on-premises network and OCI. You need to ensure that if one VPN tunnel fails, traffic automatically fails over to a backup tunnel with minimal disruption. Which configuration would BEST achieve high availability and automatic failover for your OCI Site-to-Site VPN connection?
You are implementing IPSec over FastConnect to connect to a third-party network that is also connected to OCI via FastConnect. Your company requires a high level of security and isolation between your network and the third-party’s network. Which of the following is the MOST secure approach to ensure network isolation when implementing IPSec over FastConnect in this scenario?
Your company needs to establish a secure connection between your on-premises network and OCI for a pilot project. The project has a limited budget and requires a quick setup, but also demands that the connection is encrypted. The long-term plan involves migrating to FastConnect, but that will take several months. Which OCI VPN solution would be most suitable for this short-term, budget-conscious, and security-aware scenario?
You are designing a highly available and scalable e-commerce application on OCI. The application requires load balancing for both HTTP/HTTPS traffic and TCP-based microservices communication. You need a solution that provides advanced traffic management capabilities, including content-based routing and path-based routing, and can also protect against common web exploits. Which OCI load balancing offering is the most suitable for this scenario, considering the need for web application firewall (WAF) integration?
As a network security engineer, you are tasked with designing a highly secure architecture for a financial application running on OCI. You have deployed a Network Firewall to protect the application’s VCN. Due to regulatory compliance requirements, you need to ensure that no direct internet access is allowed to any compute instance within the application’s private subnet, even if it is misconfigured. You need to block all outbound traffic to the internet. Which Network Firewall rule action best accomplishes this goal?
You are designing a highly available web application on OCI. The application needs to be accessible globally with traffic being routed to the nearest region based on user location. Additionally, you need to implement sophisticated traffic management policies, such as A/B testing and weighted traffic distribution based on application version. You also require protection against DDoS attacks. Which OCI load balancing solution is best suited for these requirements?
You are tasked with setting up a secure connection from an OCI Compute instance running in a private subnet to a third-party API that is only accessible over the internet via a static public IP address. Your company policy prohibits exposing the compute instance directly to the internet. Which combination of VCN resources BEST facilitates this secure outbound connection to the third-party API?
In a multi-tier application architecture with separate public and private subnets, where should an OCI Bastion host be placed to provide secure access to resources in the private subnets without exposing them to the internet?
You are configuring a FastConnect connection between your on-premises network and OCI. You need to establish a BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) session to exchange routing information. You want to use private peering to securely connect to your private resources within OCI. What are the MINIMUM requirements for configuring BGP for private peering over FastConnect?
