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> **Original source:** https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/certified-kubernetes-administrator-cka/?utm_source=openai

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How will the CKA benefit me?

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-   Credential Recognition
-   Career Advancement
-   Networking Opportunities
-   Cross-industry Career Opportunities

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What about AWS, Red Hat & other certs?

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Make sure your credentials include a strong foundation that is vendor-neutral to offer you the most career flexibility and growth. Add CKA to your portfolio today & check out our career roadmap.

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Domains & Competencies

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![](https://training.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/mu-plugins/lf-owls-pdp/assets/images/pdp-fundamentals/course-chapter.png) Storage10%

Implement storage classes and dynamic volume provisioning  
Configure volume types, access modes and reclaim policies  
Manage persistent volumes and persistent volume claims

![](https://training.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/mu-plugins/lf-owls-pdp/assets/images/pdp-fundamentals/course-chapter.png) Troubleshooting30%

Troubleshoot clusters and nodes  
Troubleshoot cluster components  
Monitor cluster and application resource usage  
Manage and evaluate container output streams  
Troubleshoot services and networking

![](https://training.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/mu-plugins/lf-owls-pdp/assets/images/pdp-fundamentals/course-chapter.png) Workloads & Scheduling15%

Understand application deployments and how to perform rolling update and rollbacks  
Use ConfigMaps and Secrets to configure applications  
Configure workload autoscaling  
Understand the primitives used to create robust, self-healing, application deployments  
Configure Pod admission and scheduling (limits, node affinity, etc.)

![](https://training.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/mu-plugins/lf-owls-pdp/assets/images/pdp-fundamentals/course-chapter.png) Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration25%

Manage role based access control (RBAC)  
Prepare underlying infrastructure for installing a Kubernetes cluster  
Create and manage Kubernetes clusters using kubeadm  
Manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters  
Implement and configure a highly-available control plane  
Use Helm and Kustomize to install cluster components  
Understand extension interfaces (CNI, CSI, CRI, etc.)  
Understand CRDs, install and configure operators

![](https://training.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/mu-plugins/lf-owls-pdp/assets/images/pdp-fundamentals/course-chapter.png) Services & Networking20%

Understand connectivity between Pods  
Define and enforce Network Policies  
Use ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints  
Use the Gateway API to manage Ingress traffic  
Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources  
Understand and use CoreDNS

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.

About the CKA

The CKA was created by the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a part of their ongoing effort to help develop the Kubernetes ecosystem. The exam is online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes.

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Once enrolled you will receive access to an exam simulator, provided by [**Killer.sh**](http://killer.sh/), allowing you to experience the exam environment. You will have two simulation attempts (36 hours of access for each attempt from the start of activation). Each CKA simulator session has 17 questions, and you will receive a different set of questions (17 total) in each attempt. The simulation will provide graded results.

Prerequisites

There are no pre-requisites for this exam.