⚙️ Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) — Exam-Prep
Free exam-prep for Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) with a signed certificate. Learn the modules, pass the 10-question exam, EN/FR/AR, no account.
Last updated: June 2026
An independent, free exam-preparation course that works through the publicly published CKA curriculum domains — cluster architecture, installation and configuration; workloads and scheduling; services and networking; storage; and troubleshooting — with visual lessons, original self-check questions and a final exam. It is awareness and preparation only; it is not the official CNCF/Linux Foundation course or the hands-on exam, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the CNCF or the Linux Foundation. The course is organized into 10 modules, ending with a final exam (pass mark 70%). It is independent, free exam-preparation training — not an official or accredited review course.
What you'll learn
- Cluster Architecture: Control Plane & Node Components
- Installation & Configuration: kubeadm, Cluster Setup & High Availability
- RBAC, Security Contexts & Cluster Authentication
- Managing Workloads: Pods, Deployments, DaemonSets & Rolling Updates
- Scheduling: Labels, Taints/Tolerations, Affinity & Resource Limits
- Services & Networking: ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, and Ingress
- Cluster Networking, CoreDNS & Network Policies
- Storage: Volumes, PV/PVC, StorageClasses, ConfigMaps & Secrets
- Troubleshooting: Nodes, Pods, Logs & Cluster Components
- Cluster Maintenance: Upgrades, etcd Backup/Restore, and Node Draining
Learning objectives
- Understand that this is independent CKA exam-prep over the public curriculum, not the official CNCF/Linux Foundation course or the hands-on, performance-based exam
- Name the five exam domains and their weightings: Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration (25%), Workloads & Scheduling (15%), Services & Networking (20%), Storage (10%), Troubleshooting (30%)
- Describe the Kubernetes control-plane and node components: kube-apiserver, etcd, kube-scheduler, kube-controller-manager, kubelet, kube-proxy and the container runtime
- Provision a cluster with kubeadm, manage RBAC, upgrade the cluster and back up / restore etcd
- Deploy and manage workloads with Deployments, ReplicaSets, DaemonSets and rolling updates; configure scheduling with labels, taints/tolerations, affinity and resource requests/limits
- Configure cluster networking, Services, Ingress, the Gateway API, CoreDNS and CNI; understand NetworkPolicies
- Provision and troubleshoot storage with Volumes, PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims, StorageClasses and dynamic provisioning
- Troubleshoot clusters, nodes, applications and networking using logs, events, kubectl and crictl
- Sit a 10-question exam-style final (80% to pass) built from original questions spanning all five domains