Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (Chinese-proctored)
The CKA certification delivers widely recognized professional credentials to validate your Kubernetes expertise, creates clear pathways for career advancement, grants you access…
Description
The 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 online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes.
Achieve the CKA today – the certification that is recognized globally, vendor-neutral, and relevant across all industries.
Who is this for
The CKA certification delivers widely recognized professional credentials to validate your Kubernetes expertise, creates clear pathways for career advancement, grants you access to exclusive industry networking opportunities with fellow cloud-native professionals, and unlocks versatile cross-industry job prospects across technology verticals.
Curriculum
Storage - 10%
Implement storage classes and dynamic volume provisioning
Configure volume types, access modes and reclaim policies
Manage persistent volumes and persistent volume claims
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
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.)
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
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 Core DNS
Exam details & resources
The exam is based on Kubernetes v1.35.
The CKA exam environment will be aligned with the most recent K8s minor version within approximately 4 to 8 weeks of the K8s release date.
How to register & take exam: TBC (Link to FAQ pages of the website)
Candidate Handbook: https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/tc-docs/certification/lf-handbook2
Curriculum Overview: https://github.com/cncf/curriculum/blob/master/CKA_Curriculum_v1.35.pdf
Exam Tips: https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/tc-docs/certification/tips-cka-and-ckad
Frequently Asked Questions: https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/tc-docs/certification/faq-cka-ckad-cks
Linux Foundation Global Certification and Confidentiality Agreement: https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/tc-docs/certification/lf-cert-agreement
Verify Certification: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/verify/