AdvancedCKA (CNCF)
CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Preparation for the CNCF exam, including the speed it demands.
What you'll be able to do
- Build a cluster from scratch with kubeadm and recover a broken one
- Work fast enough to finish inside the time limit
- Diagnose failures across nodes, networking and storage
- Back up and restore etcd under pressure
Modules
- 01Cluster architecture and installationkubeadm, control plane components, node join, upgrades, certificate renewal
- 02Workloads and schedulingDeployments, DaemonSets, rolling updates, affinity, taints and tolerations, resource limits
- 03Services and networkingClusterIP, NodePort, ingress, CoreDNS, CNI plugins, network policy
- 04StoragePersistent volumes and claims, storage classes, access modes, reclaim policy
- 05SecurityRBAC, service accounts, contexts, kubeconfig management, restricting access properly
- 06TroubleshootingFailing nodes and pods, control plane failure, log and event analysis, a diagnostic order that works
- 07etcd operationsSnapshot, restore, disaster recovery drills
- 08Speed and exam techniquekubectl aliases, imperative commands, docs navigation, question triage, timed mocks
Capstone
Two full timed mock exams in a live cluster, plus a broken-cluster scenario you have to diagnose and repair from scratch.
Exam format — CKA (CNCF)
Performance-based, 2 hours in a live cluster. Open book against the official documentation — which only helps if you already know where to look.