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Linux Foundation CKAD Exam Overview :

Exam Name: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Exam Code: CKAD
Certifications: Linux Foundation Kubernetes Application Developer Certification
Actual Exam Duration: 120 minutes
Exam Registration Price: $395
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Linux Foundation CKAD Exam Objectives :

Section Weight Objectives
Services and Networking 20%
  • Demonstrate basic understanding of NetworkPolicies
  • Provide and troubleshoot access to applications via services
  • Use Ingress rules to expose applications
Application Environment, Configuration and Security 25%
  • Discover and use resources that extend Kubernetes (CRD, Operators)
  • Understand authentication, authorization and admission control
  • Understand requests, limits, quotas
  • Understand ConfigMaps
  • Define resource requirements
  • Create & consume Secrets
  • Understand ServiceAccounts
  • Understand Application Security (SecurityContexts, Capabilities, etc.)
Application Observability and Maintenance 15%
  • Understand API deprecations
  • Implement probes and health checks
  • Use built-in CLI tools to monitor Kubernetes applications
  • Utilize container logs
  • Debugging in Kubernetes
Application Deployment 20%
  • Use Kubernetes primitives to implement common deployment strategies (e.g. blue/green or canary)
  • Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates
  • Use the Helm package manager to deploy existing packages
  • Kustomize
Application Design and Build 20%
  • Define, build and modify container images
  • Choose and use the right workload resource (Deployment, DaemonSet, CronJob, etc.)
  • Understand multi-container Pod design patterns (e.g. sidecar, init and others)
  • Utilize persistent and ephemeral volumes
Official Information https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/certified-kubernetes-application-developer-ckad/

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