CKAD mock exam 1 - broken checks

[ppb]

Hi, I see that some of the checks are broken as even parts of the task were not considered.

First, the HTTP readiness probe that doesn’t check for anything

Another one is “is the busybox pod running?”

Another one is the ambiguity in blue-green deployment service. I used ClusterIP where it was not clearly specified we need to use NodePort. ClusterIP works just as well with curl

[Santosh_KodeKloud]

It would have helped if you had shared the complete screenshots with the lab and question numbers.
Are these from CKAD in-course mock exams or the Ultimate Mock Exam series?

[ppb]

This is the first in CKAD ultimate mock exams, I think it were tasks 10, 19 and 20

[Santosh_KodeKloud]

I verified the labs and all worked fine at my end:

1. Q-19
   I think you were not in the correct context while performing the task:

2. Q-20
   Even that passed without much issue:

3. Q-5
   The task clearly states that the application needs to be accessible from outside the cluster:

[ppb]

Hi, tried it the second time and tasks 19 and 20 are still broken, I am sure.

The task 19 I have already described here: Ckad-mock-1 (q19) - #4 by rob_kodekloud

For task 20, the pod is not detected as running. As you can see in -o yaml, the pod is deployed in correct cluster1.

$ k get pod ckad-pod-busybox -o yaml | grep -v '{"apiVersion":"v1"'
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  annotations:
    kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: |
  creationTimestamp: "2026-04-12T16:32:06Z"
  generation: 1
  name: ckad-pod-busybox
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "4817"
  uid: 4faa1665-7749-4910-8c85-f0896477cf8b
spec:
  containers:
  - command:
    - sleep
    - "3600"
    image: busybox
    imagePullPolicy: Always
    name: pods-simple-container
    resources: {}
    terminationMessagePath: /dev/termination-log
    terminationMessagePolicy: File
    volumeMounts:
    - mountPath: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount
      name: kube-api-access-ftft9
      readOnly: true
  dnsPolicy: ClusterFirst
  enableServiceLinks: true
  nodeName: cluster1-controlplane
  preemptionPolicy: PreemptLowerPriority
...

$ k describe pod ckad-pod-busybox
Name:             ckad-pod-busybox
Namespace:        default
Priority:         0
Service Account:  default
Node:             cluster1-controlplane/10.244.198.212
Start Time:       Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:32:06 -0400
Labels:           <none>
Annotations:      <none>
Status:           Running
IP:               10.42.0.10
IPs:
  IP:  10.42.0.10
Containers:
  pods-simple-container:
    Container ID:  containerd://7870cf9a745583e7b09b400eadbeb1800e77f9027c5814a19276d7ce43eae97d
    Image:         busybox
    Image ID:      docker.io/library/busybox@sha256:1487d0af5f52b4ba31c7e465126ee2123fe3f2305d638e7827681e7cf6c83d5e
    Port:          <none>
    Host Port:     <none>
    Command:
      sleep
      3600
    State:          Running
      Started:      Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:32:07 -0400
    Ready:          True
    Restart Count:  0
    Environment:    <none>
    Mounts:
      /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from kube-api-access-ftft9 (ro)
Conditions:
  Type                        Status
  PodReadyToStartContainers   True 
  Initialized                 True 
  Ready                       True 
  ContainersReady             True 
  PodScheduled                True 
Volumes:
  kube-api-access-ftft9:
    Type:                    Projected (a volume that contains injected data from multiple sources)
    TokenExpirationSeconds:  3607
    ConfigMapName:           kube-root-ca.crt
    Optional:                false
    DownwardAPI:             true
QoS Class:                   BestEffort
Node-Selectors:              <none>
Tolerations:                 node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute op=Exists for 300s
                             node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute op=Exists for 300s
Events:
  Type    Reason     Age   From               Message
  ----    ------     ----  ----               -------
  Normal  Scheduled  16m   default-scheduler  Successfully assigned default/ckad-pod-busybox to cluster1-controlplane
  Normal  Pulling    16m   kubelet            Pulling image "busybox"
  Normal  Pulled     16m   kubelet            Successfully pulled image "busybox" in 420ms (420ms including waiting). Image size: 2222002 bytes.
  Normal  Created    16m   kubelet            Created container: pods-simple-container
  Normal  Started    16m   kubelet            Started container pods-simple-container