Practice
Certification practice
Oracle issues Oracle certifications. This academy cannot, and does not pretend to. What it offers is practice against our own published material, mapped to the levels Oracle defines so you can see which standard your understanding is actually at.
Nothing here is an Oracle credential, and no result from it counts toward one.
Oracle University awards every certification listed on this page. Sitting a practice paper here tells you what you do and do not know about the material we have written. It cannot tell you whether you will pass an Oracle exam, because we do not publish their objectives and Oracle does not publish their weighting.
Practice papers
Grouped by domain rather than by exam code, because domain is the axis our content actually covers. Each paper escalates through the levels it samples and reports per level and per domain at the end.
Recognition level across the suite: what each object is, where it lives, and which stages need a person. The level Oracle describes as foundational knowledge of core concepts.
Covers Core HR, Recruiting, Time and Labor · relevant to 1Z0-1162-1
Configuration decisions and incident reasoning across the five-stage chain, from consumer sets to the payroll hand-off. Our best-covered module, and the one where a wrong answer costs a real outage.
Covers Time and Labor · relevant to 1Z0-1048-26, 1Z0-1046-26, 1Z0-1050-26
The Recruiting and Candidate Experience split, career sites, requisitions and the hand-off into Core HR. Sits between the two offerings, which is where most real configuration errors happen.
Covers Recruiting · relevant to 1Z0-1069-26, 1Z0-1046-26
Sequencing and diagnosis across application boundaries, plus evidence discipline under live change. Built for the Professional-level habit of reasoning about hand-offs rather than components.
Covers Cross-module, Core HR · relevant to 1Z0-1046-26, 1Z0-1052-26
The three levels, in Oracle's words
Oracle defines the levels cumulatively: Associate assumes foundations, and Professional assumes advanced understanding plus applied experience. Our papers are grouped the same way, so a foundations paper does not contain a question from two levels up.
Foundations
Foundational knowledge of core concepts and services. Foundations exams are intended for candidates with technical and nontechnical backgrounds who want to validate their understanding of Oracle technologies.
Recognises: Foundational knowledge and an understanding of core concepts and fundamentals
Associate
A technical background and a strong understanding of Oracle technologies. An Associate certification is intended for candidates who can use their knowledge and experience to apply Oracle’s recommended best practices in the respective domain.
Recognises: Foundational and intermediate knowledge and skills
Professional
Advanced understanding of Oracle concepts and skills as well as experience applying these in real-world scenarios.
Recognises: Advanced understanding plus applied, real-world experience
Quoted from Oracle's certification index, not paraphrased. The Oracle certification page is the authority.
Oracle Cloud HCM certifications
Codes transcribed from Oracle's own certification index on 2026-10-05, each linking to Oracle's exam page so you can confirm it yourself. The lesson count is ours: it is how much material this academy has written for the modules that exam covers, not a percentage of Oracle's objectives.
| Certification | Code | Level | Our lessons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications HCM Process EssentialsThe entry point across the whole HCM suite: core HR and workforce management, talent, compensation, benefits, and reporting. Our cross-module material is the closest match we have. | 1Z0-1162-1 | foundations | 27 |
| Oracle Global Human Resources Cloud 2026 Implementation ProfessionalImplementation across the HCM core: workforce structures, person management, and the modules that hang off them. | 1Z0-1046-26 | professional | 24 |
| Oracle Time and Labor Cloud 2026 Implementation ProfessionalTime and Labor configuration end to end. This is the best-covered exam for us: three published lessons, three procedures and two incident scenarios. | 1Z0-1048-26 | professional | 8 |
| Oracle Recruiting Cloud 2026 Implementation ProfessionalRecruiting configuration: offerings, candidate profiles, requisitions, career sites and the handoff into Core HR. | 1Z0-1069-26 | professional | 3 |
| Oracle Talent Management Cloud 2026 Implementation ProfessionalTalent profiles, succession and performance. Currently the weakest of our coverage against an exam of this depth. | 1Z0-1052-26 | professional | 3 |
| Oracle Learning Cloud 2026 Implementation ProfessionalLearning Cloud security, catalog and offerings. We have one concept on the learning record and no lessons yet. | 1Z0-1051-26 | professional | none yet |
| Oracle Payroll Cloud 2026 Implementation ProfessionalPayroll elements, result rules and the interfaces that feed results. Our material covers the OTL side of the handoff, not payroll configuration itself. | 1Z0-1050-26 | professional | 8 |
| Oracle Compensation Cloud 2026 Implementation ProfessionalSalary, grade, bonus and equity configuration. We have two glossary terms and no lessons. | 1Z0-1049-26 | professional | none yet |
| Oracle Benefits Cloud 2026 Implementation ProfessionalBenefit plans, eligibility and life events. Not yet authored here. | 1Z0-1053-26 | professional | 10 |
| Oracle Absence Management Cloud 2026 Implementation ProfessionalAccruals, plans, eligibility and the qualification process. Not yet authored here. | 1Z0-1047-26 | professional | 10 |
The honest limits of this page
- No exam formats are reproduced. Question counts, pass scores, prices and validity periods are not shown because the figures available outside Oracle disagree with each other. Get them from Oracle.
- No pass mark, anywhere. A pass mark on our paper would imply equivalence with an Oracle exam, which we cannot support and would not honour.
- Coverage is ours, not Oracle's. "Our lessons" counts what we have written. It is not a claim about how much of an exam the material covers.
- Modules with no lessons are visible. A zero in the coverage column is a fact, and hiding it would make the rest of the table less trustworthy.