{"id":1027,"date":"2020-09-16T00:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T00:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2021-03-27T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T15:00:59","slug":"pass-ckad-exam-in-33-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/pass-ckad-exam-in-33-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass CKAD Exam in 33 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is CKAD?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><strong>CKAD<\/strong> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">It <strong>certifies the ability<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer) is developed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (<strong>CNCF<\/strong>) with The <em>Linux Foundation<\/em>. While <strong>Kubernetes was originally designed by Google<\/strong>, and now maintained by CNCF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote color: #040404 is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>CKAD is one of the difficult exams to pass but you can be a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) in&nbsp;<em><strong>just 33 days,&nbsp;<\/strong>IFF &#8211; If and only If you follow guidelines properly.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to pass the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Exam?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prerequisite<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">If you have an adequate amount of knowledge on Docker, containers, and microservices architecture and an intermediate hands-on Linux.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Registering for the exam FIRST&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><br>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 &amp; Promo available)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">KEY Concepts for CKAD:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"has-text-color, has-very-dark-gray-color wp-block-list\"><li>Start with basics <\/li><li>Prioritize your learning according to these groups.<ul><li>Group 1 &#8211;&gt; Debugging Kubernetes, Pods, Deployments, Jobs, Services, editing YAML, Volumes and PVCs, namespaces, labels <\/li><li>Group 2 &#8211;&gt; Liveness and readiness, logging, monitoring, multi-container pods, rolling updates and rollbacks<\/li><li>Group 3 &#8211;&gt; Service Accounts, resource quotas, security contexts<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Write YAMLs of all resources at least thrice!<\/li><li>Create resources using descriptive commands <\/li><li>Practice, <em>practice<\/em>, again practice then again <u><em>practice<\/em><\/u>!!<\/li><li>Attempt Mock<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Below is my recommendation: <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-text-color, has-very-dark-gray-color is-style-regular\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><strong>Task<\/strong><\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Number of Days<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Revisiting basic K8s concept&nbsp;<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Practice Group 1 Topics<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">9<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Practice Topics of Group 2&nbsp;<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">6<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Practice Topics of Group 3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">4<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Writing YAMLs<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Descriptive commands time<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Practice * 3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mock Exams<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Revise Everything<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Rest before exam<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption>Preparation breakdown &#8211; number of days for CKAD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">This CKAD exam curriculum includes these general domains and their weights on the exam:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-text-color, has-very-dark-gray-color wp-block-list\"><li>Core Concepts 13%<\/li><li>Configuration 18%<\/li><li>Multi-Container Pods 10%<\/li><li>Observability 18%<\/li><li>Pod Design 20%<\/li><li>Services &amp; Networking 13%<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">If you think content is useful for you for preparing for CKAD(certified Kubernetes application developer) so let us know, we will share the next Blog on <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What to do on exam day of CKAD<\/span><\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><strong><em>Best of luck for CKAD!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><strong>Author<\/strong>: Bashir Ahmed Zeeshan is a Cloud Enthusiast and is 2 x Alibaba Cloud (ACA) | 2 x Oracle Cloud (OCI) certified. You can connect with him on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bashirahmedzeeshan\/\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/category\/kubernetes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Related Kubernetes Blogs: Check out CKA and more CKAD Preparation Tips<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Have questions? Participate in CKAD discussions on our Forums. <a href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/forums\/\">Click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,81],"tags":[78,82],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ckad","category-kubernetes","tag-ckad","tag-kubernetes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}