You need to run a cleanup job every hour that deletes temporary files. The job should not overlap with the previous run if it takes longer than an hour. Which workload resource should you use, and what configuration is needed?

Job with restartPolicy: OnFailure

CronJob with concurrencyPolicy: Allow

CronJob with concurrencyPolicy: Forbid

You updated a Deployment with a new container image, but the rollout is stuck and pods are not becoming ready. You need to quickly restore the previous working version. What should you do?

Manually delete the new ReplicaSet

Scale the Deployment to 0 and then back to the desired replicas

Delete the Deployment and recreate it with the old image

Roll back the Deployment to the previous revision

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Domain 1Objective 2

Choose and Use the Right Workload Resource (Deployment, DaemonSet, CronJob, Etc.) CKAD Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Application Design and Build domain, which accounts for 20% of the CKAD exam. Linux Foundation does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~10–16 in this domain), expect 3–4 from this objective — we provide 21 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Questions 6–10

6application · medium
Your team has a batch processing application that needs to process a large queue of items. The processing can be parallelized, and you want to run multiple pods simultaneously to speed up the work. Each pod processes a subset of the items and then exits. Which workload resource should you use?
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7foundation · easy
Which Kubernetes resource is used to run a batch job on a recurring schedule, such as every hour?
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8application · medium
You need to run a cleanup job every hour that deletes temporary files. The job should not overlap with the previous run if it takes longer than an hour. Which workload resource should you use, and what configuration is needed?
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9application · medium
You have a Deployment with the following strategy: rollingUpdate with maxUnavailable: 25% and maxSurge: 25%. The Deployment has 4 replicas. During a rollout, what is the maximum number of pods that can be unavailable at any given time?
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10application · medium
You updated a Deployment with a new container image, but the rollout is stuck and pods are not becoming ready. You need to quickly restore the previous working version. What should you do?
Select an answer first

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Questions 6–10

Your team has a batch processing application that needs to process a large queue of items. The processing can be parallelized, and you want to run multiple pods simultaneously to speed up the work. Each pod processes a subset of the items and then exits. Which workload resource should you use?

Which Kubernetes resource is used to run a batch job on a recurring schedule, such as every hour?

You need to run a cleanup job every hour that deletes temporary files. The job should not overlap with the previous run if it takes longer than an hour. Which workload resource should you use, and what configuration is needed?

You have a Deployment with the following strategy: rollingUpdate with maxUnavailable: 25% and maxSurge: 25%. The Deployment has 4 replicas. During a rollout, what is the maximum number of pods that can be unavailable at any given time?

You updated a Deployment with a new container image, but the rollout is stuck and pods are not becoming ready. You need to quickly restore the previous working version. What should you do?

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