Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Unlimited CKAD practice exam retakes, each drawn fresh from a question pool weighted by the official exam domains — covering application design & build, deployment, observability & maintenance, environment/configuration/security, and services & networking, aligned to CNCF CKAD v1.35.
Exam mode Default
120-minute timer, flag for review and a review screen before you submit — just like test day.
Practice mode
See the correct answer, the exam domain and a full explanation after every question.
What you get
- A 195-question pool — every attempt draws 65 fresh questions weighted by the official exam domains
- Unlimited retakes, lifetime access
- Score report by exam domain, with your score trend over time
- Answer review with explanations and reference links
- Original, blueprint-aligned questions — never exam dumps
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Exam domains
Every attempt draws questions in these official proportions. Open a domain to see the subtopics it covers.
Application Design and Build20%
- Define, build and modify container images
- Choose and use the right workload resource (Deployment, DaemonSet, CronJob, etc.)
- Understand multi-container Pod design patterns (e.g. sidecar, init and others)
- Utilize persistent and ephemeral volumes
Application Deployment20%
- Use Kubernetes primitives to implement common deployment strategies (blue/green, canary)
- Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates
- Use the Helm package manager to deploy existing packages
- Kustomize
Application Observability and Maintenance15%
- Understand API deprecations
- Implement probes and health checks
- Use built-in CLI tools to monitor Kubernetes applications
- Utilize container logs
- Debugging in Kubernetes
Application Environment, Configuration and Security25%
- Discover and use resources that extend Kubernetes (CRD, Operators)
- Understand authentication, authorization and admission control
- Understand requests, limits, quotas
- Understand ConfigMaps
- Define resource requirements
- Create and consume Secrets
- Understand ServiceAccounts
- Understand Application Security (SecurityContexts, Capabilities, etc.)
Services and Networking20%
- Demonstrate basic understanding of NetworkPolicies
- Provide and troubleshoot access to applications via services
- Use Ingress rules to expose applications
References
- Official exam page:training.linuxfoundation.org
- Official study guide:github.com (PDF)
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