Cloud Native / DevOps

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Complete, hands-on-focused prep for the CNCF Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. Covers the full curriculum: application design and build (container images and multi-stage builds, pods and multi-container patterns like init/sidecar/ambassador/adapter, Jobs and CronJobs, and volumes); application deployment (Deployments, rolling updates and rollbacks, deployment strategies, Helm and kustomize, and scaling); observability and maintenance (liveness, readiness and startup probes, logging and debugging with kubectl, and API deprecations); environment, configuration and security (ConfigMaps and Secrets, securityContext, ServiceAccounts and RBAC, and resource requests, limits, quotas and LimitRanges); and services and networking (Service types, Ingress, and NetworkPolicies). Includes exam-trap callouts, per-domain mastery checks, a 50-question mock, a full-length 125-question exam simulator, and a spaced-repetition flashcard deck. CKAD is a performance-based, two-hour exam solved in live clusters — this course builds the conceptual fluency behind that speed; pair it with hands-on kubectl practice.

6domains / modules
26lessons
307practice questions
28flashcards

0.00 USD

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What you'll study

Domain 1 — Application Design & Build (20%)

Domain 2 — Application Deployment (20%)

Domain 3 — Application Observability & Maintenance (15%)

Domain 4 — Environment, Configuration & Security (25%)

Domain 5 — Services & Networking (20%)

Quick Reference — Exam-Day Cheat-Sheet

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