CKAD exam preparation tips!
What is CKAD?
CKAD is a comprehensive certification that includes a 100% hands-on exam to provide assurance that CKADs have the skills, knowledge, and competency to perform the responsibilities of Kubernetes.
It certifies the ability of a developer to build, configure, design, and expose native cloud applications for Kubernetes. Such developers are further able to work with core resources to build, monitor, and troubleshoot applications in Kubernetes.
CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer) is developed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with The Linux Foundation. While Kubernetes was originally designed by Google, and now maintained by CNCF.
CKAD is one of the difficult exams to pass but you can be a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) in just 33 days, IFF — If and only If you follow guidelines properly.
How to pass the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Exam?
Prerequisite:
If you have an adequate amount of knowledge on Docker, containers, and microservices architecture and an intermediate hands-on Linux.
Registering for the exam FIRST :
YES, register for the exam before starting preparing for the CKAD exam because when you schedule for a particular date ( let say 14th September!) and you have approximately A MONTH, then you must take out time for Study.
Registration cost for CKAD exam is 300$ and this price includes one retake in case you fail on your first attempt (There are some discounts & Promo available)
KEY Concepts for CKAD:
1.Start with basics
2.Prioritize your learning according to these groups.
Group 1 –> Debugging Kubernetes, Pods, Deployments, Jobs, Services, editing YAML, Volumes and PVCs, namespaces, labels
Group 2 –> Liveness and readiness, logging, monitoring, multi-container pods, rolling updates and rollbacks
Group 3 –> Service Accounts, resource quotas, security contexts
3.Write YAMLs of all resources at least thrice!
4.Create resources using descriptive commands
5.Practice, practice, again practice then again practice!!
6.Attempt Mock
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