Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA): Certification Preparation

Course overview

Understanding the Exam Overview of the CKA exam: Format (performance-based, remote-proctored), registration, and process The five exam domains and their weighting Working efficiently as in the exam: kubectl shortcuts, --dry-run, using the official documentation (Hands-on) Domain 1: Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration (25 %) Architecture and components: Control Plane, Worker Nodes, etcd Cluster setup with kubeadm (Lab) Cluster upgrades: safely updating versions (Lab) Access control with RBAC: Roles, RoleBindings, ServiceAccounts (Lab) Helm: deploying applications packaged with charts, values, and releases (Lab) Overview of Kustomize Overview of CRDs and Operators Domain 2: Workloads & Scheduling (15 %) ReplicaSets and Deployments (Lab) Rolling updates and rollbacks Application configuration: environment variables and ConfigMaps (Lab) Secrets: handling sensitive data Requests and limits (Lab) Overview of autoscaling (HPA) Controlling scheduling: nodeSelector, affinity, taints, and tolerations (Lab) Domain 3: Services & Networking (20 %) Understanding the Kubernetes network model Services: ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer (Lab) Name resolution in the cluster: DNS External access with Ingress (Lab) Overview of Gateway API Overview of NetworkPolicies Overview of Service Meshes Domain 4: Storage (10 %) Volumes, PersistentVolumes, and PersistentVolumeClaims (Lab) StorageClasses and dynamic provisioning (Lab) StatefulSets Domain 5: Troubleshooting (30 %) Systematic troubleshooting: Pods, Deployments, Services, Nodes The tools of the exam: kubectl logs, describe, events, exec (Lab) Resource monitoring: metrics-server and kubectl top, overview of Prometheus Overview of logging approaches (EFK stack) Practicing typical exam scenarios together (Hands-on) Exam Strategy and Study Plan Time management and point distribution Typical pitfalls and how to avoid them Practice resources and exam simulator Individual study plan until the exam date, including topics for self-study

Upcoming dates

• 2026-09-14T22:00:00.000Z · 2026-09-17T22:00:00.000Z · Online-Seminar
• 2026-10-18T22:00:00.000Z · 2026-10-21T22:00:00.000Z · Köln · Seminar
• 2026-10-18T22:00:00.000Z · 2026-10-21T22:00:00.000Z · Online-Seminar
• 2026-12-13T23:00:00.000Z · 2026-12-16T23:00:00.000Z · Köln · Seminar