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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam objectives

Cloud Native Computing Foundation publishes 5 exam domains with official weightings. The weight tells you where your marks come from, so your study time should roughly follow it.

1. Troubleshooting

30%
  • Diagnosing failing pods from events, logs and describe output
  • Fixing cluster component failures: kubelet, control plane statics, certificates and kubeconfig
  • Debugging the network: DNS resolution, service endpoints, and pod-to-pod connectivity
  • Reading node conditions, resource pressure, taints and evictions

2. Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration

25%
  • RBAC: roles, cluster roles, bindings and service accounts
  • Cluster lifecycle with kubeadm: bootstrap, join, and version upgrades
  • etcd backup and restore, which shows up as an exam task again and again
  • Managing extensions and cluster components with Helm and manifests

3. Services & Networking

20%
  • Choosing a service type: ClusterIP, NodePort or LoadBalancer
  • Routing HTTP with Ingress and the Gateway API
  • Isolating pods with NetworkPolicy
  • CoreDNS behaviour and in-cluster service discovery

4. Workloads & Scheduling

15%
  • Deployments, rolling updates and rollbacks
  • ConfigMaps and Secrets injected as environment variables or volumes
  • Controlling scheduling with requests and limits, node selectors, affinity, taints and tolerations
  • DaemonSets, StatefulSets, Jobs and CronJobs, and when each fits

5. Storage

10%
  • PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims and how binding works
  • StorageClasses and dynamic provisioning
  • Access modes and reclaim policies
  • Mounting volumes into pods, including emptyDir and hostPath trade-offs

Our practice exam spreads its questions across these exact domains at these weightings, so your score in each one tells you precisely where you stand.

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Domains and weightings as published by Cloud Native Computing Foundation; last reviewed July 19, 2026.

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