SKILL BENCHMARK
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 2024 Mastery (Expert Level)
- 26m
- 26 questions
The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Mastery (Expert Level) benchmark measures your mastery in securing Kubernetes clusters and managing role-based access control (RBAC). You will be evaluated on your knowledge of Kubernetes pod scheduling, security, high availability, backup and updates, and monitoring and troubleshooting. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates the ability to secure Kubernetes environments and manage access controls effectively.
Topics covered
- Acquire a user certificate using OpenSSL
- back up etcd cluster state data
- configure a cloud-based backup of a cluster
- Configure a pod restart policy
- Configure resource quotas for a namespace
- Create a Kubernetes service account
- Create a manifest file used to deploy pods and replicas
- Create and manage a namespace
- Create Kubernetes RBAC cluster roles
- determine how failed Pods get replaced in a cluster
- Limit resource usage when deploying pods
- Manage Kubernetes namespaces in the Azure cloud
- Manage Kubernetes RBAC roles
- manually drain nodes and block Pod deployments
- Outline how pods get placed on nodes
- Place pods on nodes manually
- Recognize how to control cluster resource access using role-based access control (RBAC)
- recognize the importance of monitoring Kubernetes cluster metrics
- Restrict access to Kubernetes objects for specific users with RBAC bindings
- Run a deployment in Kubernetes
- scale a Kubernetes cluster manually
- set up and configure a Kubernetes Metrics Server
- troubleshoot Pods, including config file typos
- use kubectl to analyze Kubernetes logs
- Use labels and selectors in manifest files
- Use OpenSSL to create a private certificate authority (CA)