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認定Kubernetes管理者 (CKA-JP)

Achieve the CKA today – the certification that is recognized globally, vendor-neutral, and relevant across all industries.

CKA includes:

✔ 12-months to schedule & take the exam
✔ Access to two exam simulation attempts
✔ Two exam attempts

Note: These exams are proctored by English-speaking proctors, but the exam content is available in Japanese.

How will the CKA benefit me?

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  • Career Advancement
  • Networking Opportunities
  • Cross-industry Career Opportunities

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Domains & Competencies
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Storage10%
Implement storage classes and dynamic volume provisioning
Configure volume types, access modes and reclaim policies
Manage persistent volumes and persistent volume claims
Troubleshooting30%
Troubleshoot clusters and nodes
Troubleshoot cluster components
Monitor cluster and application resource usage
Manage and evaluate container output streams
Troubleshoot services and networking
Workloads & Scheduling15%
Understand application deployments and how to perform rolling update and rollbacks
Use ConfigMaps and Secrets to configure applications
Configure workload autoscaling
Understand the primitives used to create robust, self-healing, application deployments
Configure Pod admission and scheduling (limits, node affinity, etc.)
Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration25%
Manage role based access control (RBAC)
Prepare underlying infrastructure for installing a Kubernetes cluster
Create and manage Kubernetes clusters using kubeadm
Manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters
Implement and configure a highly-available control plane
Use Helm and Kustomize to install cluster components
Understand extension interfaces (CNI, CSI, CRI, etc.)
Understand CRDs, install and configure operators
Services & Networking20%
Understand connectivity between Pods
Define and enforce Network Policies
Use ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
Use the Gateway API to manage Ingress traffic
Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources
Understand and use CoreDNS
The Linux Foundation worked with industry experts and the Linux kernel community to identify the core domains and the critical skills, knowledge and competencies applicable to each certification. Performance-based exams were then developed based on the competencies that were identified.
Exam Details & Resources
This exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes. Candidates have 2 hours to complete the tasks.

The exam is based on Kubernetes v1.32.
The CKA exam environment will be aligned with the most recent K8s minor version within approximately 4 to 8 weeks of the K8s release date.

About the CKA
The CKA was created by the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a part of their ongoing effort to help develop the Kubernetes ecosystem. The exam is online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes.

Once enrolled you will receive access to an exam simulator, provided by Killer.sh, allowing you to experience the exam environment. You will have two simulation attempts (36 hours of access for each attempt from the start of activation). Each CKA simulator session has 17 questions, and you will receive a different set of questions (17 total) in each attempt. The simulation will provide graded results.

Prerequisites
There are no pre-requisites for this exam.
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Exam Duration 2 Hours
Certification Valid for 2 Years
12 Month Exam Eligibility
One Retake
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