Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
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.
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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 it is 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
How to Register
1. After purchase the exam voucher, please log into your portal LFOSSA website, your exam voucher will be available under "Exam & Learning Voucher" (password-protected).
2. You need an LFID to register for and take Linux Foundation (LF) certification exams. If you already have a Linux Foundation ID (LFID), you can redeem your exam voucher at https://trainingportal.linuxfoundation.org/redeem . If you do not have a LFID, click here (https://trainingportal.linuxfoundation.org/access/saml/login) to create one.
3. Log in to your LF Education portal, enter your exam voucher code in the Enter Registration Code field and click Validate, then check the box: " I agree to The Linux Foundation Training Terms, Conditions & Policies and the Thought Industries Terms & Conditions."
4. A confirmation message “Congrats, your code has been validated” will appear upon successful validation, confirming your voucher is valid. Click Register to complete the exam voucher registration.
5. Log in to LF Education global website with your LFID. After the registration process, the certification exam will be available in the learner's portal within 24 hours, then the candidate will be available to take and schedule exam.
Details
The exam is based on Kubernetes v1.37.
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.
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Terms and conditions
The Exam Voucher is non-refundable upon purchase.
Exam Voucher is redeemable within 90 days post-purchase; Exam eligibility will be valid for 1 year from your registration date. You now have 90 days + 365 days for exam preparation!