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Linux Foundation CKA Exam Overview :

Exam Name: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Exam Code: CKA
Certifications: Linux Foundation Kubernetes Administrator Certification
Actual Exam Duration: 120 minutes
Exam Registration Price: $395
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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/

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