There are no formal requirements for the 1Z0-1065-26 exam: Oracle lists no prerequisite, so anyone can book it. The exam itself is hands-on and performance based, with 36 questions in 90 minutes and a 68% passing score, and it leads to the Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement 2026 Certified Implementation Professional credential.
That short answer hides the real requirement, which is skill rather than paperwork. This walkthrough covers what the exam expects you to be able to do, how the hands-on format changes your preparation, the thirteen topic areas, a five-week plan, the mistakes that cost marks and five short answers at the end. Every exam figure below was read on Oracle's own pages on 12 November 2026.
What are the requirements for the 1Z0-1065-26 exam?
Oracle's answer is simple. The official 1Z0-1065-26 exam page on Oracle MyLearn says there is no prerequisite to take the exam. You do not need an earlier Oracle credential, a course certificate or a set number of years in procurement.
Search queries for this exam often ask whether a procurement qualification such as CIPS or CPSM is needed. It is not. Those are separate professional credentials from other bodies, and Oracle's page does not mention them. They may help you understand the business side of buying, but they are not a condition for booking 1Z0-1065-26.
There is one eligibility rule worth knowing before you pay. If you earned an Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement Certified Implementation Professional or Specialist certification from 2019 onwards, whether it is still active or has lapsed, Oracle lets you take the matching Delta exam for free instead of the full exam. You can check the status of an older credential in Oracle CertView. If you have no qualifying credential, the full 1Z0-1065-26 exam is the route.
Oracle names the audience too: procurement implementers, administrators, managers and consultants who implement Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement. In practice that means the exam is written for someone who has worked through setup tasks in a real or sandbox environment, not only read about them.
What does the 1Z0-1065-26 exam look like?
Here are the facts from the exam page, all checked on 12 November 2026:
- Exam code: 1Z0-1065-26 (Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement 2026 Implementation Professional).
- Delivery: proctored online.
- Format: hands-on, performance based.
- Number of questions: 36.
- Duration: 90 minutes.
- Passing score: 68%.
- Policy: Cloud Recertification.
- Credential earned: Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement 2026 Certified Implementation Professional.
At 68% you need about 25 correct answers out of 36, if every question counts the same. Ninety minutes for 36 questions gives you two and a half minutes each, which sounds generous until you meet a question that asks you to look through a configuration first.
A Japanese edition is listed as well. The 1Z0-1065-26-JPN exam page shows the same 36 questions and 68% passing score, with 91 minutes instead of 90.
How is a hands-on performance based exam different?
This is the part that changes how you prepare. Alongside standard multiple choice questions, the exam includes questions tied to specific configurations in a given Oracle Cloud Applications environment.
Oracle describes the steps: review a configuration, assess that configuration, then answer the question about it. You are judged on how well you can see the way parameters and setups affect system behaviour, and which actions or settings lead to a given result.
So memorising the name of a setup task is not enough. You need to know where the task lives, what its key fields do and what a user would see after it is saved. A candidate who has opened each setup page at least once will read these questions much faster than one who has only read the guides.
Which topic areas does 1Z0-1065-26 cover?
Oracle lists thirteen topic areas and publishes no percentage weights for them. Without weights you cannot skip the small areas, so plan to cover all thirteen to a working level.
- Understanding the Procurement Application: its components and the Procure-to-Pay flow.
- Implementing Functional Setup Manager: the FSM life cycle, configuring FSM, managing setup data for bulk entry, and configuring projects and tasks with Procurement.
- Provisioning Common Application Functions: common configuration tasks, the role of the enterprise structure and the Procurement security model.
- Setting up Common Procurement Functions: the basic procurement setups that every other area depends on.
- Setting up Purchasing: configuring and customising the purchasing tasks.
- Setting up Self Service Procurement: procurement catalogs, requisitions with dual unit of measure items, distributing project cost on requisitions, and lead times that determine delivery dates.
- Setting up Supplier Portal: user roles, setting up new suppliers and configuring the Supplier Portal Advisor AI Agent.
- Setting up Sourcing: the sourcing lifecycle, supplier responses and negotiations.
- Setting up Supplier Qualification Management (SQM): its components and supplier qualifications.
- Configuring Procurement Contracts: what contracts can do and how to set them up.
- Configuring Project-Driven Supply Chain (PDSC): setting it up with Procurement.
- Leveraging AI/ML/Mobile and Automation Features: using them to streamline processes.
- Enabling Redwood Capabilities: turning them on and understanding what that means for existing configurations.
Which 1Z0-1065-26 topics should you study first?
Group the thirteen areas into four blocks and study them in order, because each block builds on the one before.
- Foundation: the Procurement application, FSM, common application functions and the security model. Every later setup assumes you know how an implementation project, offerings and functional areas fit together, and who is allowed to do what.
- Buying: common procurement functions, Purchasing and Self Service Procurement. This is where requisitions become purchase orders, and where catalogs, units of measure and lead times show up in the exam outline.
- Supplier side: Supplier Portal, Sourcing and SQM. These cover how suppliers register, respond to negotiations and become qualified.
- Extensions: Procurement Contracts, PDSC, the AI, mobile and automation features, and Redwood. These are newer or narrower, but without weights you cannot assume they carry few questions.
Oracle's Procurement implementation guide library is the reference set for the first three blocks. Read a chapter, then open the same setup pages in an environment, so that the hands-on questions feel familiar.
What does a five-week 1Z0-1065-26 study plan look like?
This plan assumes about an hour a day on weekdays and a longer session at the weekend. Shorten it if you already implement Oracle Procurement at work.
- Week 1, foundation: walk through the Procure-to-Pay flow end to end, then FSM. Set up a small implementation project, look at how setup data is exported and imported for bulk entry, and read the security reference for Procurement.
- Week 2, common functions and Purchasing: work through the basic procurement setups and the purchasing tasks. For each setup, write one sentence on what a buyer or requester would see differently after you change it.
- Week 3, Self Service Procurement: catalogs first, then the three detailed items Oracle names: dual unit of measure items on requisitions, project cost distribution on requisitions, and lead times that drive delivery dates.
- Week 4, supplier side and contracts: Supplier Portal roles and new supplier setup, the Supplier Portal Advisor AI Agent, the sourcing lifecycle and negotiations, supplier qualifications in SQM, Procurement Contracts and PDSC.
- Week 5, newer features and review: the AI, mobile and automation features, enabling Redwood, then a full review. Spend the last days reading configurations and predicting their outcome before you look at the result.
What is new in each quarterly release matters too, because Redwood pages and AI features change often. Oracle's Self Service Procurement 26B What's New is a good example of the release notes worth skimming in week 5.
What mistakes cost marks on 1Z0-1065-26?
- Studying it like a memory test. The hands-on questions reward knowing what a setting does, not just its name.
- Skipping FSM. It is easy to treat Functional Setup Manager as admin plumbing, but it has a topic area of its own.
- Dropping the small areas. With no published weights, Contracts, PDSC and Redwood are as much a risk as Purchasing.
- Never opening the setup pages. If a configuration screen is new to you on exam day, the review-assess-answer steps will eat your time.
- Paying for the full exam when you qualify for a Delta. Check CertView first if you hold an earlier Procurement credential from 2019 onwards.
- Forgetting the clock. Two and a half minutes per question goes fast when a question opens with a configuration to read.
How would a configuration question work? A worked example
The following is an example written for this post, not a question from the exam. It shows the review, assess, answer pattern that Oracle describes.
Say you are shown the setup for a requester in one business unit whose requisitions are fulfilled by a buyer in a central procurement business unit. The requester's line for a catalog item shows a delivery date later than the requester expected.
Review: look at what decides the date. Oracle's outline names lead times as the setting that determines delivery dates on requisitions, so the item's lead time setup is the first place to look.
Assess: if a lead time is set, the requisition will propose a date no earlier than that lead time allows, which explains the later date. If no lead time is set, look elsewhere for the cause.
Answer: the question might ask which setting to change so that the proposed date moves. The skill tested is reading cause and effect in the setup, which is exactly what a week spent in the setup pages trains.
How do you keep the 1Z0-1065-26 credential current?
The exam falls under Oracle's Cloud Recertification policy. Oracle's recertification FAQ says a Cloud Applications credential is valid for 18 months, that Delta exams are free with 15 free attempts, and that you can take a Delta exam from MyLearn even after the credential has expired.
Plan for that from the start. Keep the notes you make during the five weeks, because the next Delta exam will test what changed in later releases on top of the same foundation.
What should you know before exam day?
Oracle's exam page lists the practical steps:
- Check in 30 minutes before your exam time.
- Have government-issued identification ready; it is required.
- Make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements for an online proctored exam.
- Your result appears on screen when the exam ends, and the detailed score report is in Oracle CertView.
- If you need to reschedule, do it at least 24 hours before the appointment.
The video below is from the DBExam channel. It covers a sister Oracle Fusion Cloud 2026 implementation exam (Field Service, 1Z0-1039-26), and its walk through scenario-style questions is a useful warm-up for the way 1Z0-1065-26 asks you to reason about a setup.
For a database exam rather than an applications one, this blog also has a walkthrough of the 1Z0-084 Oracle Database 19c performance tuning exam.
Frequently asked questions
1. Are there any requirements to take the 1Z0-1065-26 exam?
No. Oracle lists no prerequisite for 1Z0-1065-26, so anyone can book it. If you earned an Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement implementation certification from 2019 onwards, you can take the matching Delta exam for free instead.
2. How many questions are on 1Z0-1065-26 and what is the passing score?
The exam has 36 questions in 90 minutes, and the passing score is 68%, which is about 25 correct answers if every question counts the same. The Japanese edition allows 91 minutes.
3. What does hands-on performance based mean for 1Z0-1065-26?
Besides standard multiple choice questions, some questions are tied to configurations in an Oracle Cloud Applications environment. You review a configuration, assess it and then answer a question about how it affects system behaviour.
4. How much does the 1Z0-1065-26 exam cost?
Oracle's certification FAQ values one exam attempt at US$245. There is no free retake, so each sitting uses one attempt.
5. How long is the 1Z0-1065-26 certification valid?
Oracle Cloud Applications credentials are valid for 18 months. You keep them current with Delta exams, which are free with 15 attempts and can be taken from MyLearn even after a credential has expired.