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Identity Domains: an identity domain represents a user population in OCI and associated

configurations and security settings

Oracle cloud ID (OCID) -> unique oracle-assigned identifier

Compartments:

Resources from different regions can be in the same compartment, it’s a virtual box where
you can keep your resources.
 Compartments can have 6 levels (nested)
 You can set quotas and budgets to individual compartment
AuthN and AuthZ
Principals: IAM entities that are allowed to interact with OCI resources -> IAM Users and
Resource Principals
AuthN: API Signing Key (RSA key pair) , Auth Tokens
AuthZ: what permissions do you have (policies)

Policy can be attached to a compartment or a tenancy


AuthZ in OCI: Allow <group_name> to <verb> <resource-type> in <location> where
<condition>

Tenancy Setup
Tenancy admin -> creates an account/ modify and so on
OCI admin -> set of user -> group -> policies -> own-compartment
Use MFA
Allow these policies for OCI admin so that they can use the privilege to grant or revoke the
necessary permissions.
Quiz

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