Preparing for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam requires strong hands-on skills, fast decision-making, and the ability to troubleshoot real Kubernetes clusters under pressure. This practice-tests is designed to give you the closest possible experience to the real CKA exam.

These full-length practice tests are divided into the exact five domains defined by the Kubernetes exam blueprint, ensuring you build confidence across every competency area. Each task replicates real-world cluster issues, misconfigurations, deployments, and troubleshooting scenarios — all designed to sharpen your kubectl skills and help you master Kubernetes operations from day one.

You’ll work through practical exercises involving cluster architecture, workloads, networking, storage, and advanced troubleshooting. From fixing broken nodes to diagnosing DNS failures, from creating deployments to restoring ETCD — every challenge prepares you for scenarios that commonly appear in the real exam.

Whether you're a DevOps engineer, cloud engineer, SRE, administrator, or developer transitioning into Kubernetes, these practice tests will help you evaluate your skills and identify areas to improve before your certification attempt.

By the end of this practice tests, you’ll be able to confidently manage Kubernetes clusters, solve complex tasks under time pressure, and approach the CKA exam with clarity and readiness.

What You’ll Learn

1. Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration (25%)

Practice questions covering:

Kubernetes control plane components (kube-apiserver, scheduler, controller-manager)
Worker node services (kubelet, kube-proxy)
Installing Kubernetes clusters
kubeadm init, join, reset operations
ETCD backup and restore procedures
Cluster upgrades
kubeconfig configuration and context switching
Cluster networking and CNI plugin management

2. Workloads & Scheduling (15%)

Hands-on tasks including:

Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments
DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs
Manual and automatic scheduling
Taints, tolerations, node selectors
Affinity & anti-affinity
Rolling updates and rollbacks
Multi-container pod patterns

3. Services & Networking (20%)

Simulated exam scenarios involving:

ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer services
Ingress & Ingress Controllers
Network policies
DNS troubleshooting
Service discovery
Ports, endpoints, and basic networking concepts
CNI troubleshooting

4. Storage (10%)

Practice tasks on:

Persistent Volumes (PV)
Persistent Volume Claims (PVC)
Storage Classes
Dynamic provisioning
Volume mounts & access modes
Stateful workloads with persistent storage

5. Troubleshooting (30%) — The Largest Domain

You will practice:

Application debugging (CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePull errors, etc.)
Logging & monitoring
Control plane failures
Worker node failures
DNS & networking issues
Resource quota and limit errors
YAML misconfigurations
Detecting scheduling problems

Who This Practice Tests Is For

Anyone preparing for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam
DevOps engineers and Cloud engineers
Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)
Developers working with Kubernetes
IT professionals wanting to validate their Kubernetes knowledge

Requirements / Prerequisites

Basic understanding of Linux commands
Familiarity with Docker or containerisation concepts
Knowledge of Kubernetes fundamentals (Pods, Deployments, Services, etc.)
Ability to work with YAML configuration files
Experience using the CLI
Access to a Kubernetes environment (Minikube, kind, or Docker Desktop) is helpful but optional

This Practice Tests Includes

Full-length CKA-style practice exams
Timed exam simulation environment
Realistic cluster setup and troubleshooting tasks
Step-by-step solutions for every question
Breakdown by exam domains
Lifetime access
Access on mobile and desktop
Regular updates to match the latest CKA exam blueprint