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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

The Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam certifies that users can design, build, configure, and expose cloud native applications for Kubernetes.

Who Is It For
This certification is for Kubernetes engineers, cloud engineers and other IT professionals responsible for building, deploying, and configuring cloud native applications with Kubernetes.
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About This Certification
CKAD has been developed by The Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to help expand the Kubernetes ecosystem through standardized training and certification. This exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that consists of a set of performance-based tasks (problems) to be solved in a command line.
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What It Demonstrates
The Certified Kubernetes Application Developer can design build, configure and expose cloud native applications for Kubernetes. A CKAD can define application resources and use core primitives to build, monitor, and troubleshoot scalable applications & tools in Kubernetes.
The exam assumes knowledge of, but does not test for, container runtimes and microservice architecture.
The successful candidate will be comfortable using:
- An OCI-Compliant Container Runtime, such as Docker or rkt.
- Cloud Native application concepts and architectures.
- A Programming language, such as Python, Node.js, Go, or Java.
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Domains & Competencies
Core Concepts13%
Understand Kubernetes API primitives
Create and Configure Basic Pods
Configuration18 %
Understand ConfigMaps
Understand SecurityContexts
Define an application’s resource requirements
Create & consume Secrets
Understand ServiceAccounts
Multi-Container Pods10%
Understand Multi-Container Pod design patterns (e .g. ambassador, adapter, sidecar)
Observability18%
Understand LivenessProbes and ReadinessProbes
Understand container logging
Understand how to monitor applications in Kubernetes
Understand debugging in Kubernetes
Pod Design20%
Understand how to use Labels, Selectors, and Annotations
Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates
Understand Deployments and how to perform rollbacks
Understand Jobs and CronJobs
Services & Networking13%
Understand Services
Demonstrate basic understanding of NetworkPolicies
State Persistence8%
Understand Persistent Volume Claims for storage
The CKAD Certification focuses on the skills required to be a successful Kubernetes Application Developer in industry today. The exam assumes knowledge of, but does not test for, container runtimes and a microservice architecture.  The successful candidate will be comfortable using:

An OCI-Compliant Container Runtime, such as Docker or rkt.
Cloud native application concepts and architectures.
A programming language, such as Python, Node.js, Go, or Java.

Exam Details & Resources
This exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that consists of a set of performance-based tasks (problems) to be solved in a command line. Candidates have 2 hours to complete the tasks.

The exam is based on Kubernetes v1.19

Learning Path
There are no pre-requisites for this exam.
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Duration of Exam 2 hours
Certification Valid 3 Years
12 Month Exam Eligibility
Exam Retake
PDF Certificate and Digital Badge
Software Version: Kubernetes v1.19
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Experience Level: Intermediate
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