Change of curriculam for CKA exam around Jan 2025

Kubernetes
#1

I noticed an annoncement in linuxfoundation that, in January 2025, there will be change in the curriculam of the CKA exam. New curriculam (change in sub topics actually) have been published also: curriculum/CKA_Curriculum Coming Soon Q1 2025.pdf at master · cncf/curriculum · GitHub

How is kodekloud going handle this change? will there be new delta topics/videos published? @mumshadgmail

#2

Hi @rajworkshere

We are well aware of the upcoming updates to the CKA curriculum, and we are almost in the final stage of updating the course on KK.

I can assure you that the changes will be live before the updated exam by LF is released.

#3

Hi @rajworkshere

If you are doing CKA on the KodeKloud platform with a KodeKloud subscription i.e. not Udemy, then you can start learning about Helm and Custom Resources now by finding those labs and lectures in the CKAD course. That material will be copied into CKA as part of the update.

#4

Is it going to change by Jan 15th or Feb 10th, 2025? LF site says not before Feb 10th.

My exam is on Jan 24th, really worried now.

Please confirm @mumshadgmail

#5

It is at earliest updating on 10 February 2025 – which is just “hot off the presses”. So 24 January will be according to the current curriculum, with a certainty.

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#6

There is no proper documentation for the Kustomize tool and GateWayAPI how does the CKA exam ask questions on it. I watched and practiced updated practice labs. In the killer.sh I found one question on kustomize which I didnt understand with the course its different the solution

Question:
Solve this question on: ssh cka5774

Previously the application api-gateway used some external autoscaler which should now be replaced with a HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA). The application has been deployed to Namespaces api-gateway-staging and api-gateway-prod like this:

kubectl kustomize /opt/course/5/api-gateway/staging | kubectl apply -f -
kubectl kustomize /opt/course/5/api-gateway/prod | kubectl apply -f -

Using the Kustomize config at /opt/course/5/api-gateway do the following:

  1. Remove the ConfigMap horizontal-scaling-config completely
  2. Add HPA named api-gateway for the Deployment api-gateway with min 2 and max 4 replicas. It should scale at 50% average CPU utilisation
  3. In prod the HPA should have max 6 replicas
  4. Apply your changes for staging and prod so they’re reflected in the cluster.
#7

I believe that the one doc page on kustomize would cover most of what that killer.sh question requires. Which is pretty limited.

Approved documentation for Gateway API is similarly limited.

The core rule for the exam is that if documentation is required to do something and no documentation is made available for the exam, they can’t ask that.