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As many of you may have heard, (If you haven’t heard just google the
question is CKA hard?) CKA is a tough exam. Mainly because it focuses
on your ability to perform on a practical level rather than just asking a
bunch of MCQ questions that would test your knowledge. I will not be
disclosing any exam questions here, but I will share the tips and tricks I
used getting prepared and during the time of the exam.
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Getting Prepared
First I advice you to download the exam study guide book and get a
thorough understanding of what is required of you.
Once you feel like you are ready to go, please go try out the following
practice questions to get yourself better prepared. Note that this is
targeted towards CKAD and not CKA, but still, doing these questions
helped me a lot in getting prepared.
dgkanatsios/CKAD-exercises
walidshaari/Kubernetes-Certi ed-
Administrator
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kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Okay that’s pretty much it on what I did for in terms of preperation for
the exam. One thing to note though, I only did kelsey’s Kubernetes the
hardway only one time, and that too I just copy pasted the commands
without really trying to understand what’s happening behind those
commands. I paid my price for that in some questions in the exam.
Useful Websites
During the exam, you will get a browser based terminal and it will have
all the tools you are required to have. You can only open one more tab
and can go to any website under the domain of kubernetes.io. Here
are the following links that helped me the most during the exam.
Kubectl cheatsheet that would help you right out with most questions
in your exams.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/cheatsheet
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Kubectl it away!
Don’t try to write your own yamls at the exam. Avoid that as much as
possible and use kubectl as much as you can. There’s a lot you can do
on kubectl alone.
which is a great way to get a quick look at the keys available to you.
This is handy in the final hour as you absolutely know how many
questions you have attempted and how much minimum marks you
need to achieve that pass mark of 74%. You don’t have to complete all
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the 24 questions you get to pass the exam, just target on getting that
74% and use your time to double check answers without attempting all.
I did 22/24 and used the final half an hour to double check my answers
before trying to attempt questions 23 and 24. And thank god i did,
because some questions, I have forgotten to change context at the top
and some text files that I should have saved in the base vm, I have saved
in a node that I have ssh’d into and have forgotten to exit properly.
That’s pretty much it for my tips and tricks for taking the CKA. I wish
you all good luck on the exam. Let me know if you have more queries.
Clap and show your support. Cheers!
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