- Which 1Z0-771 This Article Covers
- Verified Exam Facts at a Glance
- What the Credential Validates
- The 19 Official Objective Headings
- Question Style and Testing Conditions
- Registration, Fees and Rescheduling
- Version, Validity and What Is Still Unverified
- Who Hires APEX Developers
- A Domain-Ordered Preparation Sequence
- Frequently Asked Questions
- 1Z0-771 here means Oracle APEX Cloud Developer Professional: 50 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, 68% passing score.
- Oracle publishes 19 unweighted objective headings, so no domain can honestly be called the highest-weighted.
- The exam is proctored online through Oracle MyLearn; the published U.S. subscription price is US$245 for six months.
- Newer domains (workflows and tasks, Generative AI, Progressive Web Apps) are easy to neglect but sit on the official list.
Which 1Z0-771 This Article Covers
The code "1Z0-771" is shared by several credentials across the industry, and search results routinely blur them together. This page is about exactly one of them: Oracle APEX Cloud Developer Professional (1Z0-771), administered by Oracle University through Oracle MyLearn. Every fact below comes from Oracle's own exam page or is qualified when it does not. If you want a plain-language definition of the code itself, see What Is 1Z0-771? and What Does 1Z0-771 Stand For?
One naming wrinkle is worth knowing. Oracle's exam page uses the award wording "Oracle APEX Cloud Certified Developer Professional," while the exam itself is titled Oracle APEX Cloud Developer Professional. Both refer to the same 1Z0-771 exam.
Verified Exam Facts at a Glance
| Item | What Oracle's sources support |
|---|---|
| Issuer | Oracle Corporation; Oracle University administers certification |
| Questions | 50 (scored versus unscored split not disclosed) |
| Duration | 90 minutes |
| Format | Multiple choice |
| Passing score | 68% |
| Delivery | Proctored online via Oracle MyLearn |
| Price (U.S.) | US$245 for one Oracle Technology Exam Subscription attempt, six-month subscription term |
| Prerequisites | Recommended training listed as optional; no mandatory hours or education |
| Population pass rate | Not publicly disclosed in the checked official sources |
Third-party prep vendors often contradict these numbers, citing 55 questions, a 60% cut score, or a different test provider. Treat Oracle's exam page as the tiebreaker. For a deeper look at the cut score, read 1Z0-771 Passing Score 2026, and for the evidence behind success rates, see 1Z0-771 Pass Rate 2026: What the Data Shows.
What the Credential Validates
1Z0-771 is a developer-level exam for Oracle APEX, the low-code platform that runs inside Oracle Database. The objective list begins with working on the Oracle Autonomous Database and ends with Progressive Web Apps, which tells you the scope: you are expected to move from provisioning and SQL work, through building and securing applications, to modern extensions such as AI features and installable apps. It is a build-and-configure exam, not a theory exam. Candidates who have only read about APEX tend to struggle with questions that assume they have actually clicked through Page Designer, set up a region source, or wired a dynamic action.
The 19 Official Objective Headings
Oracle lists 19 objective headings and does not publish percentage weights. That means any claim that "Domain X is 25% of the exam" comes from a vendor, not Oracle. The headings below are reproduced from the official page; the commentary is editorial. For a full walk-through of each, see 1Z0-771 Exam Domains 2026: Complete Guide to All 19 Content Areas.
Foundation: environment, data and application creation
Domains 1-3: Getting Started, SQL Workshop, Creating an APEX Application
These cover the workspace on the Autonomous Database, the SQL Workshop toolset, and building an application from scratch or from existing data.
- Know what lives in SQL Workshop (Object Browser, SQL Commands, SQL Scripts, Utilities) and what each is for.
- Understand how a workspace, schema and application relate to one another.
- Be comfortable with application creation options and the choices the wizard presents.
Core page building
Domains 4-7: Pages and Regions, Reports, Forms, Page Controls
This is the daily bread of APEX development and the most hands-on cluster on the list.
- Region types and how they are arranged and displayed in Page Designer.
- Report types: classic, interactive and others, plus the options end users can change at runtime.
- Form creation, including how items map to table columns and how submission works.
- Item and button types, lists of values, and how page controls behave.
Logic, navigation and data
Domains 8-10: Computations, Processes, Validations and Branches; Navigation; Managing Application Data
Expect scenario questions that ask which mechanism to use, or in what order things fire.
- Distinguish computations, processes, validations and branches by purpose and processing point.
- Navigation menus, breadcrumbs, lists and the shared components behind them.
- Application data management, including working with data sources and application-level items and settings.
Presentation, extension and security
Domains 11-14: Themes and Theme Styles, Extending Capabilities, Security, Additional Pages
Where applications become production-ready.
- Theme styles and Theme Roller concepts versus changing the underlying theme.
- Authentication versus authorization schemes, and how each is attached to pages and components.
- Extending capabilities with shared components and supporting objects.
- Adding further page types to an existing application.
Advanced and newer topics
Domains 15-19: Dynamic Actions and Plug-ins, Migrating Between Environments, Workflows and Tasks, Generative AI, Progressive Web Apps
These are the headings candidates most often under-prepare, partly because older study material predates them.
- Dynamic actions: events, conditions, true and false actions, and how plug-ins extend them.
- Moving applications between development, test and production, including export and import concepts.
- Workflows and tasks: what a workflow is, how human tasks differ, and how they are defined and run.
- Generative AI in APEX: configuring AI services and where AI features appear in the builder and in apps.
- Progressive Web Apps: what makes an app installable and which settings control it.
Key Takeaway
Because Oracle does not publish weights, study all 19 headings to a working level rather than betting on a favorite. The last five are listed with the same prominence as the first five.
Question Style and Testing Conditions
All questions are multiple choice. The 50-question count and 90-minute limit mean roughly one and a half minutes per question on average, which is comfortable for recall questions and tight for scenario questions with long stems. Oracle does not disclose how many items are unscored, so you cannot know which questions count; answer every one carefully.
Typical question patterns for an APEX developer exam include identifying the right component for a stated requirement, choosing the correct sequence of steps in the builder, and recognizing what a given setting does. For a realistic sense of how demanding this is, read How Hard Is the 1Z0-771 Exam?
Proctoring rules to plan around
- A personal computer with reliable internet, a webcam and a microphone.
- A matching government-issued ID.
- A private, quiet room and check-in 30 minutes early.
- No books or reference materials, mobile devices, headphones or virtual backgrounds.
- Oracle's current exam-preparation instructions prohibit outside assistance and pen and paper, and provide a digital whiteboard instead.
No adaptive format and no separate calculator allowance were verified. Read Oracle's exam preparation page before your appointment, because proctoring rules are the part most likely to change.
Registration, Fees and Rescheduling
You register through Oracle MyLearn. The published U.S. price is US$245 for one Oracle Technology Exam Subscription attempt with a six-month subscription term, and Oracle's U.S. store explicitly includes Oracle APEX. Two cautions: the subscription term is not the validity of the credential, and an exact-code checkout total (taxes, and any separate member and nonmember rates) was not verified. Confirm the final amount at checkout. A free first-attempt offer from early 2025 ended on 15 May 2025 and is not current pricing, though it still appears in forum threads. See 1Z0-771 Certification Cost 2026 for the full breakdown.
Appointments must be cancelled or rescheduled at least 24 hours in advance. For scheduling mechanics, see 1Z0-771 Exam Dates 2026.
Version, Validity and What Is Still Unverified
Oracle's learning-path blog post (displayed date 19 June 2025) identifies 1Z0-771 as validated on Oracle APEX 24.2. No separately dated 2026 blueprint was verified, so build your lab environment on 24.2 and treat features from adjacent releases carefully. Some public guides cite APEX 23.2, which is a reason to prefer Oracle's own material.
Several points could not be established from official sources:
- Validity and renewal: no APEX-specific validity period, renewal method or continuing-education requirement was confirmed. Oracle's general 24-month (OCI) and 18-month (Cloud Applications) policies are not automatically applicable to this credential.
- Course archive notice: Oracle's "Oracle APEX Developer Professional" course displays a 30 October 2026 archive notice. That is about the course, not an exam retirement. Its 18h 34m length is training time, not the exam timer.
- Domain weights and population pass rate: neither is published.
Who Hires APEX Developers
Demand for 1Z0-771 skills shows up as demand for Oracle APEX developers generally. Oracle itself posts APEX Developer roles, and organizations that run Oracle Database often use APEX for internal tools, reporting front ends and data-entry applications. Role-based salary pages exist for the title "Oracle APEX Developer," but they describe the job, not certificate holders, and nothing checked establishes that this certification alone raises pay. Read 1Z0-771 Salary Guide 2026 and 1Z0-771 Jobs for the careful version, and Is the 1Z0-771 Certification Worth It? for the ROI discussion.
Realistically, the credential is best viewed as structured evidence of platform breadth: it signals that you have touched security, dynamic actions, deployment and the newer AI and workflow features, which helps when a portfolio or work history is thin.
A Domain-Ordered Preparation Sequence
The one place sequencing matters is ordering the domains so that each builds on the last. A hands-on build is the spine; read the exam-specific detail in 1Z0-771 Study Guide 2026 and the 1Z0-771 training overview.
Environment, SQL Workshop, first application
- Domains 1-3: set up a workspace and generate an app from a table.
Pages, reports, forms, controls
- Domains 4-7: rebuild each page type by hand rather than by wizard.
Logic, navigation, data, theming
- Domains 8-11: practise order of processing and shared components.
Security, extensions, dynamic actions, migration
- Domains 12-16: configure authentication and authorization, then export and import an app.
Workflows, Generative AI, PWAs, then timed practice
- Domains 17-19, followed by full timed runs on the practice test site.
For a last-day review, the 1Z0-771 cheat sheet condenses the facts above.
Frequently Asked Questions
Fifty multiple-choice questions in a 90-minute written exam. Oracle does not disclose how many are unscored, so treat every question as counting.
The passing score is 68%. Vendors citing other cut scores are not relying on Oracle's current exam page.
No. Oracle lists 19 objective headings without percentages, so any stated domain weight comes from a third party and is not official.
The published U.S. price is US$245 for one Oracle Technology Exam Subscription attempt with a six-month term. Final checkout totals, including taxes, were not verified.
An APEX-specific validity period or renewal requirement was not established from the sources checked. Do not assume the OCI or Cloud Applications policies apply; confirm with Oracle's certification guidelines.