Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
CNPA
Scenario-based practice exam on platform engineering: declarative and GitOps fundamentals, CI/CD, observability and security, platform APIs with operators and Crossplane, developer portals and DORA me
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
KCA
Scenario-based practice exam on Kyverno: admission control fundamentals, installation and HA, the Kyverno CLI, applying and writing validate, mutate, generate and verifyImages policies, reports and cl
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
OTCA
Scenario-based practice exam on OpenTelemetry: observability fundamentals, the API and SDK (traces, metrics, logs, propagation, sampling), the Collector and its pipelines, and debugging telemetry pipe
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
CBA
Scenario-based practice exam on Backstage: development workflow and monorepo tooling, infrastructure and configuration, the Software Catalog, plugins, the new backend system, Software Templates, TechD
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
CCA
Scenario-based practice exam on Cilium: architecture and IPAM, network policy and identities, service mesh and Gateway API, Hubble observability, installation, Cluster Mesh, eBPF and BGP.
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
ICA
Scenario-based practice exam (knowledge practice test) on Istio: installation, upgrades and ambient mode, traffic management, securing workloads with mTLS and authorization, and troubleshooting the me
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
CGOA
Scenario-based practice exam on GitOps: terminology, the four OpenGitOps principles, related practices such as IaC and CI/CD, deployment and reconciliation patterns, and tooling with Helm, Kustomize,
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
CAPA
Scenario-based practice exam on the Argo project: Argo Workflows templates and artifacts, Argo CD GitOps sync and ApplicationSets, Argo Rollouts canary and blue-green analysis, and Argo Events sources
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
PCA
Scenario-based practice exam on Prometheus: observability concepts and SLOs, Prometheus fundamentals and scraping, PromQL, instrumentation and exporters, alerting with Alertmanager and dashboarding.
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
KCSA
Scenario-based practice exam covering cloud native security, cluster component security, Kubernetes security fundamentals, threat modelling, platform and supply chain security, and compliance framewor
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFEntryKU
KCNA
Scenario-based practice exam covering Kubernetes fundamentals, container orchestration, cloud native application delivery and cloud native architecture, autoscaling and observability.
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFExpertKU
CKS
Scenario-based practice exam (a knowledge practice test; the real CKS is hands-on) covering cluster setup and hardening, system hardening, microservice vulnerabilities, supply chain and runtime securi
⏱ 120 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
CKAD
Scenario-based practice exam (a knowledge practice test; the real CKAD is hands-on) covering application design and build, deployment, observability, configuration and security, and networking.
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFProfessionalKU
CKA
Scenario-based practice exam (a knowledge practice test; the real CKA is hands-on) covering cluster architecture and installation, workloads and scheduling, networking, storage and troubleshooting.
⏱ 120 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFProfessionalKU
Scenario-based expert Kubernetes practice exam at CKA/CKS depth: advanced scheduling, networking, CRDs and operators, admission control, autoscaling, storage, RBAC and cluster hardening.
⏱ 120 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFEntryKU
Scenario-based KCNA-level practice exam: Pods and workloads, Services, probes, resources, scheduling, autoscaling, troubleshooting, RBAC and cloud native basics.
⏱ 60 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass
Kubernetes / CNCFAssociateKU
Hands-on, scenario-based CKA-aligned practice exam: cluster architecture, workloads, services and networking, storage, and troubleshooting with kubectl, YAML and real error messages.
⏱ 75 min◎ 50 questions✓ 70% to pass