Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Practice Exam
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Practice Exam
About Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam
The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program has been built by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), in collaboration with The Linux Foundation, to help develop the Kubernetes ecosystem.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation offers a certification program that allows users to demonstrate their competence in a hands-on, command-line environment.
Purpose of the Exam
The purpose of the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program is to provide assurance that CKAs have the skills, knowledge, and competency to perform the responsibilities of Kubernetes administrators. It is an online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple issues from a command line.
Exam details
- Exam Format: Performance-based items
- Exam Duration: 2 hours
- Exam Fees: $300 USD
- Pass Score: 66% and above
- Total Questions: 24
Course Outline
The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam covers the following topics -
The certification focuses on the skills required to be a successful Kubernetes Administrator in the industry today. This includes these general domains and their weights on the exam:
Domain 1 - Storage 10%
- Implement storage classes and dynamic volume provisioning
- Configure volume types, access modes and reclaim policies
- Manage persistent volumes and persistent volume claims
Domain 2 - Troubleshooting 30%
- Troubleshoot clusters and nodes
- Troubleshoot cluster components
- Monitor cluster and application resource usage
- Manage and evaluate container output streams
- Troubleshoot services and networking
Domain 3 - Workloads & Scheduling 15%
- Understand application deployments and how to perform rolling update and rollbacks
- Use ConfigMaps and Secrets to configure applications
- Configure workload autoscaling
- Understand the primitives used to create robust, self-healing, application deployments
- Configure Pod admission and scheduling (limits, node affinity, etc.)
Domain 4 - Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration 25%
- Manage role based access control (RBAC)
- Prepare underlying infrastructure for installing a Kubernetes cluster
- Create and manage Kubernetes clusters using kubeadm
- Manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters
- Implement and configure a highly-available control plane
- Use Helm and Kustomize to install cluster components
- Understand extension interfaces (CNI, CSI, CRI, etc.)
- Understand CRDs, install and configure operators
Domain 5 - Services & Networking 20%
- Understand connectivity between Pods
- Define and enforce Network Policies
- Use ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
- Use the Gateway API to manage Ingress traffic
- Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources
- Understand and use CoreDNS
What do we offer?
- Full-Length Mock Test with unique questions in each test set
- Practice objective questions with section-wise scores
- In-depth and exhaustive explanation for every question
- Reliable exam reports evaluating strengths and weaknesses
- Latest Questions with an updated version
- Tips & Tricks to crack the test
- Unlimited access
What are our Practice Exams?
- Practice exams have been designed by professionals and domain experts that simulate real-time exam scenario.
- Practice exam questions have been created on the basis of content outlined in the official documentation.
- Each set in the practice exam contains unique questions built with the intent to provide real-time experience to the candidates as well as gain more confidence during exam preparation.
- Practice exams help to self-evaluate against the exam content and work towards building strength to clear the exam.
- You can also create your own practice exam based on your choice and preference
