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Linux Foundation CKA Exam Syllabus

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Linux Foundation
Vendor
CKA
Exam Code
83
Total Questions
5
Total Exam Domains

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Linux Foundation CKA Exam Objectives

Section 1: Storage
Weight:
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
Section 2: Troubleshooting
Weight:
30%
  • Evaluate cluster and node logging
  • Understand how to monitor applications
  • Manage container stdout & stderr logs
  • Troubleshoot application failure
  • Troubleshoot cluster component failure
  • Troubleshoot networking
Section 3: Workloads & Scheduling
Weight:
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 deployments
  • Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling
  • Awareness of manifest management and common templating tools
Section 4: Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration
Weight:
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
Section 5: Services & Networking
Weight:
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
Info
https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/certified-kubernetes-administrator-cka/