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Kubernetes / CNCF practice exams

17 timed, auto-graded Kubernetes / CNCF practice exams and 3 certification paths. Your first exam is free; every pass gives a certificate anyone can verify.

Kubernetes / CNCF certification paths

Cloud Native (CNCF) Path12 steps Kubestronaut Path (CNCF Kubernetes)5 steps DevOps and Platform Engineering Path16 steps
Kubernetes / CNCF 17

Kubernetes / CNCF17

Kubernetes / CNCFAssociate

Kyverno Certified Associate (KCA) Practice

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
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Kubernetes / CNCFAssociate

OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA) Practice

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
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Kubernetes / CNCFAssociate

Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Practice

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
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Kubernetes / CNCFAssociate

Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) Practice

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
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Kubernetes / CNCFAssociate

Istio Certified Associate (ICA) Practice

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
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Kubernetes / CNCFAssociate

Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Practice

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
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Kubernetes / CNCFAssociate

Certified Argo Project Associate (CAPA) Practice

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
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Kubernetes / CNCFAssociate

Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Practice

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
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Kubernetes / CNCFProfessional

Kubernetes Advanced (Expert, 50)

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
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Kubernetes / CNCFEntry

Kubernetes Fundamentals (Practice, 50)

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
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Kubernetes / CNCFAssociate

Kubernetes Fundamentals (CKA-aligned)

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
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