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The CKAD is a hands-on, performance-based certification that validates a candidate's ability to design, build, and deploy cloud-native applications for Kubernetes.
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About this exam
CKAD is a performance-based exam certifying that candidates can design, build, configure, and expose cloud-native applications on Kubernetes using core primitives and tooling.
Who should take this exam
Application developers and engineers who build and run containerized applications on Kubernetes and want to demonstrate practical, hands-on proficiency.
Career benefits
CKAD demonstrates real-world Kubernetes application development skills sought for cloud-native developer, platform engineer, and DevOps roles.
How to prepare
Study the official CNCF curriculum, practice extensively with kubectl in a live cluster, and master manifests for deployments, configuration, observability, and services under time pressure.
Quick facts
Exam costUSD 445
Valid for3 years
Length120 minutes
Passing score66%
FormatOnline proctored, hands-on performance-based exam performed against live Kubernetes clusters via a command-line terminal.
Practice questions106
Objectives5
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What's covered
1. Application Design and Build
20%Defining and building container images, jobs and cron jobs, multi-container Pods, and using volumes for persistence.
2. Application Deployment
20%Deployment strategies such as rolling updates and blue/green, using Deployments, and the Helm package manager and Kustomize.
3. Application Observability and Maintenance
15%API deprecations, probes and health checks, monitoring, logs, and debugging applications in Kubernetes.
4. Application Environment, Configuration and Security
25%ConfigMaps, Secrets, security contexts, resource requirements, ServiceAccounts, and admission control concepts like CRDs.
5. Services and Networking
20%Network policies, Services for exposing applications, and Ingress rules and controllers.
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