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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

CKAD

The Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification validates your ability to design, build, configure, and expose cloud-native applications for Kubernetes. It is aimed at developers who work with container images, microservices, and Kubernetes resource definitions. Earning CKAD proves you can apply cloud-native concepts and troubleshoot real-world application deployments in a live cluster environment.

Practice Free Questions

5Domains

17Objectives

81Practice pages

363Free questions

CKAD free practice questions

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Define, build and modify container images

21 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–21

Choose and use the right workload resource (Deployment, DaemonSet, CronJob, etc.)

21 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–21

Understand multi-container Pod design patterns (e.g. sidecar, init and others)

21 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–21

Utilize persistent and ephemeral volumes

18 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–18

Use Kubernetes primitives to implement common deployment strategies (e.g. blue/green or canary)

27 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–27

Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates

29 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–29

Use the Helm package manager to deploy existing packages

23 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–23

Understand API depreciations

16 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–16

Implement probes and health checks

19 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–19

Use built-in CLI tools to monitor Kubernetes applications

21 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–21

Utilize container logs

11 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–11

Debugging in Kubernetes

28 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–28

Exposing Applications

20 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20

Kubernetes Security

26 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–26

Application Configuration

14 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–14

Extending Kubernetes

18 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–18

Kustomize

30 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30

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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

CKAD free practice questions

Domain 1 · Application Design and Build22% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 81 questions22%

Domain 2 · Application Deployment26% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 95 questions26%

Domain 3 · Application Observability and Maintenance22% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 79 questions22%

Domain 4 · Application Environment, Configuration and Security21% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 78 questions21%

Domain 5 · Services and Networking8% of practice bank · 1 objectives · 30 questions8%