CKA Self-Study Course
These six self-study modules contain all of the topics outlined in the CNCF CKA Exam Curriculum. If you are not already familiar with the curriculum, take a moment to familiarize yourself as you will be required to demonstrate knowledge of each topic in order to pass the CKA exam.
Module 1 - Cluster Architecture, Installation, and Configuration
- Configure Authentication and Authorization
- Upgrading Kubernetes with kubeadm
- Implement Backup and Restore Methodologies
- Practice Drill
Module 2 - Workloads and Scheduling
- Deployments and Rolling Updates
- Deployments and Rollbacks
- Configure Applications
- Scale Applications
- Self-healing Applications
- Practice Drill
Module 3 - Services and Networking
- Services and Other Network Primitives
- Ingress Controllers and Ingress Resources
- Service Discovery with CoreDNS
- Manage TLS Certificates for Cluster Components
- Work with Images Securely
- Security Contexts
- Secure Persistent Key-Value Store
- Practice Drill
Module 4 - Storage
- Understanding Kubernetes Storage Objects
- Persistent Volumes
- Volume Access Modes
- Persistent Volume Claims
- Configure Applications with Persistent Storage
- Practice Drill
Module 5 - Troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot Application Failure
- Troubleshoot Control Plane Failure
- Troubleshoot Worker Node Failure
- Troubleshoot Networking
- Practice Drill