Upcoming Program Changes Coming September 28, 2021

[ivanmarban]

From September 28 onwards CKAD exam will test new set of Domains and Competencies. More information: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/ckad-program-change-2021/

[weihao]

Following, does anyone have more context?

[ivanmarban]

In bold and italic the new changes according with Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (CKAD) Udemy course:

Application Design and Build – 20%

• Define, build and modify container images
• Understand Jobs and CronJobs
• Understand multi-container Pod design patterns (e.g. sidecar, init and others)
• Utilize persistent and ephemeral volumes

Application Deployment – 20%

• Use Kubernetes primitives to implement common deployment strategies (e.g. blue/green or canary)
• Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates
• Use the Helm package manager to deploy existing packages

Application Observability and Maintenance – 15%

• Understand API deprecations
• Implement probes and health checks
• Use provided tools to monitor Kubernetes applications
• Utilize container logs
• Debugging in Kubernetes

Application Environment, Configuration and Security – 25%

• Discover and use resources that extend Kubernetes (CRD)
• Understand authentication, authorization and admission control (CKA)
• Understanding and defining resource requirements, limits and quotas
• Understand ConfigMaps
• Create & consume Secrets
• Understand ServiceAccounts
• Understand SecurityContexts

Services and Networking – 20%

• Demonstrate basic understanding of NetworkPolicies
• Provide and troubleshoot access to applications via services
• Use Ingress rules to expose applications

[dguyhasnoname]

I am working on setting up questions according to new syllabus structure. It's work in progress.

https://github.com/dguyhasnoname/CKAD-TheHardWay