Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
EXAM Cost = $395
Book exam using website: linuxfoundation.org
About This Certification:
CKA was created by The Linux Foundation and the Cloud
Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a part of their ongoing effort
to help develop the Kubernetes ecosystem. The exam is an
online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple
tasks from a command line running Kubernetes.
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Domains & Competencies:
Storage 10%
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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
Troubleshooting 30%
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Evaluate cluster and node logging
Understand how to monitor applications
Manage container stdout & stderr logs
Troubleshoot application failure
Troubleshoot cluster component failure
Troubleshoot networking
Workloads & Scheduling 15%
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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 deployments
Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling
Awareness of manifest management and common templating
tools
Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration
25%
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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
Services & Networking 20%
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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
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Exam Details & Resources:
This exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test
that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes.
Candidates have 2 hours to complete the tasks.
Candidates who register for the Certified Kubernetes
Administrator (CKA) exam will have 2 attempts (per exam registration) to an
exam simulator.
The exams are delivered online and consist of
performance-based tasks (problems) to be solved on the command line running
Linux.
The exams consist of 15-20 performance-based tasks.
Candidates have 2 hours to complete the CKA exam.
The exams are proctored remotely via streaming audio,
video, and screen sharing feeds.
Results will be emailed 24 hours from the time that the
exam is completed.
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Exam Technical Instructions:
Root privileges can be obtained by running 'sudo −i'.
You must NOT reboot the base node (hostname node-1).
Rebooting the base node will NOT restart your exam environment.
Do not stop or tamper with the certerminal process as
this will END YOUR EXAM SESSION.
Do not block incoming ports 8080/tcp, 4505/tcp and
4506/tcp. This includes firewall rules that are found within the distribution's
default firewall configuration files as well as interactive firewall commands.
The Terminal (Terminal Emulator Application) is a Linux
Terminal; to copy & paste within the Linux Terminal you need to use LINUX
shortcuts:
Copy =
Ctrl+SHIFT+C (inside the terminal)
Paste = Ctrl+SHIFT+V (inside the terminal)
OR Use the Right Click Context Menu and select Copy or
Paste
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