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Linux Foundation CKA Exam Syllabus

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Before starting your CKA exam preparation, it is recommended to review the complete Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam syllabus and carefully go through the exam objectives listed below. Once you understand the exam structure and objectives, you should practice using our free CKA questions. We also provide premium CKA practice test, fully updated according to the latest exam objectives, to help you accurately assess your preparedness for the actual exam.

Linux Foundation CKA Exam Objectives

Section Weight Objectives
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
Troubleshooting 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
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 deployments
  • Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling
  • Awareness of manifest management and common templating tools
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
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
Official Information https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/certified-kubernetes-administrator-cka/