Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam Curriculum

CKA_Curriculum_V1.18.yml

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CKA Curriculum:
    - Core Concepts: 19%
        Topics:
            - Understand the Kubernetes API primitives.
            - Understand the Kubernetes cluster architecture.
            - Understand Services and other network primitives.
    - Scheduling: 6%
        Topics:
            - Use label selectors to schedule Pods.
            - Understand the role of DaemonSets.
            - Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling.
            - Understand how to run multiple schedulers and how to configure Pods to use them.
            - Manually schedule a pod without a scheduler.
            - Display scheduler events.
            - Know how to configure the Kubernetes scheduler.
    - Logging/Monitoring: 5%
        Topics:
            - Understand how to monitor all cluster components.
            - Understand how to monitor applications.
            - Manage cluster component logs.
            - Manage application logs.
            
    - Application Lifecycle Management: 8%
        Topics:
            - Understand Deployments and how to per form rolling updates and rollbacks.
            - Know various ways to configure applications.
            - Know how to scale applications.
            - Understand the primitives necessary to create a self-healing application.
    - Cluster Maintenance: 11%
        Topics:
            -  Understand Kubernetes cluster upgrade process.
            - Facilitate operating system upgrades.
            - Implement backup and restore methodologies.
    - Security: 12%
        Topics:
            - Know how to configure authentication and authorization.
            - Understand Kubernetes security primitives.
            - Know to configure network policies.
            - Create  and  manage TLS certificates for cluster components.
            - Work with images securely.
            - Define security contexts.
            - Secure persistent key value store.
    - Storage: 7% 
        Topics:        
            - Understand persistent volumes and know how to create them.
            - Understand access modes for volumes.
            -  Understand persistent volume claims primitive.
            -  Understand Kubernetes storage objects.
            -  Know how to configure applications with persistent storage.

    - Networking: 11%
        Topics:
            - Understand the networking configuration on the cluster nodes.
            - Understand Pod networking concepts.
            - Understand service networking.
            - Deploy and configure network load balancer.
            - Know how to use Ingress rules.
            - Know how to configure and use the   cluster DNS.
            - Understand CNI.
    - Installation, Configuration & Validation: 12%
        Topics:
            - Design a Kubernetes cluster.
            - Install Kubernetes masters and nodes.
            - Configure secure cluster communications.
            - Configure a Highly-Available Kubernetes cluster.
            - Know where to get the Kubernetes release binaries.
            - Provision underlying infrastructure to deploy a Kubernetes cluster.
            - Choose a network solution.
            - Choose your Kubernetes infrastructure configuration.
            - Run end-to-end tests on your cluster.
            - Analyse end-to-end tests results.
            - Run Node end-to-end tests.
            - Install and use kubeadm to install, configure, and manage Kubernetes clusters
     - Troubleshooting: 10%
        Topics:
            - Troubleshoot application failure.
            - Troubleshoot control plane failure.
            - Troubleshoot worker node failure.
            - Troubleshoot networking.