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 - Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration (25%)
- Manage role-based access control (RBAC)
- Use Kubeadm to install a basic cluster
- Manage a highly-available Kubernetes cluster
- Provision underlying infrastructure to deploy a Kubernetes cluster
- Perform a version upgrade on a Kubernetes cluster using Kubeadm
- Implement etcd backup and restore
Domain 2 - Workloads & Scheduling (15%)
- Understand deployments and how to perform rolling update and rollbacks
- Use ConfigMaps and Secrets to configure applications
- Know how to scale applications
- Understand the primitives used to create robust, self-healing, application deployment
- Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling
- Awareness of manifest management and common templating tools
Domain 3 - Services & Networking (20%)
- Understand host networking configuration on the cluster nodes
- Understand connectivity between Pods
- Understand ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
- Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources
- Know how to configure and use CoreDNS
- Choose an appropriate container network interface plugin
Domain 4 - Storage (10%)
- Understand storage classes, persistent volumes
- Understand volume mode, access modes, and reclaim policies for volumes
- Understand persistent volume claims primitive
- Know how to configure applications with persistent storage
Domain 5 - Troubleshooting (30%)
- Evaluate cluster and node logging
- Understand how to monitor applications
- Manage container stodout & stderr logs
- Troubleshoot application failures
- Troubleshoot custom component failures
- Troubleshoot networking
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
