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The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program provides assurance that CKAs have the skills, knowledge, and competency to perform the responsibilities of Kubernetes administrators.

Not sure where to start? You may consider reviewing our suggested CKA learning path.

EXAM SIMULATOR! Learners will now have access to an exam simulator, provided by Killer.sh, to experience the exam environment. You will have two exam simulation attempts (36 hours of access for each attempt from the start of activation). Simulation includes 20-25 questions (which are exactly the same for every attempt and every user (unlike those found on the actual exams) and graded simulation results.

PLEASE NOTE: Please see upcoming changes to the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam (changes NOT taking place prior to January 15, 2025). Bookmark the link and check back for the official release date.

Who Is It For
This certification is for Kubernetes administrators, cloud administrators and other IT professionals who manage Kubernetes instances.
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What You’ll Learn
With unlimited access to all of our e-learning courses, the learning opportunities are endless. In one of the 65+ courses, Kubernetes Fundamentals, you'll learn how to use the container management platform used by companies like Google to manage their application infrastructure & how to install and configure a production-grade Kubernetes cluster, from network configuration to upgrades to making deployments available via services.
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What It Demonstrates
A certified K8s administrator has demonstrated the ability to do basic installation as well as configuring and managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters. They will have an understanding of key concepts such as Kubernetes networking, storage, security, maintenance, logging and monitoring, application lifecycle, troubleshooting, API object primitives and the ability to establish basic use-cases for end users.
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Exam Domains & Competencies
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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
Troubleshooting30%
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 & Scheduling15%
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 & Configuration25%
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 & Networking20%
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
The Linux Foundation worked with industry experts and the Linux kernel community to identify the core domains and the critical skills, knowledge and competencies applicable to each certification. Performance-based exams were then developed based on the competencies that were identified.
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, provided by Killer.sh.  

The exam is based on Kubernetes v1.31

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Exam Duration 2 Hours
Certification Valid for 2 Years
12 Month Exam Eligibility
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Software Version: Kubernetes v1.31
Performance-Based Exam
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Exam Experience Level: Intermediate
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