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Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CNCFCKAProfessional

⏱ Duration

2 hours

❓ Questions

15–20 performance-based tasks

✅ Pass Score

66%

💰 Cost

$395 USD (2 attempts included)

📅 Valid

3 years

📋 Exam Domains & Weightage

Cluster Architecture, Installation & Config

kubeadm init/join, etcd backup & restore, cluster upgrade, RBAC

25%

Workloads & Scheduling

Deployments, DaemonSets, resource limits, taints, affinity, Priority

15%

Services & Networking

ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, Ingress, NetworkPolicy, CoreDNS

20%

Storage

PersistentVolumes, PVC, StorageClasses, hostPath, emptyDir

10%

Troubleshooting

Worker node issues, control plane failures, pod debugging, network issues

30%

🔑Practice every day in a real cluster — killer.sh is mandatory

🔑Learn kubectl imperative commands: create deployment, expose, run

🔑30% troubleshooting — be fast at reading events and logs

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After this certification

CKAD (Developer) or CKS (Security Specialist)