Cleared my CKS exam recently. Adding some points based on My experience: • As e . . .

Rajat Umrao:
Cleared my CKS exam recently. Adding some points based on My experience:

• As everyone else added about slowness(its slow for real, i attempted at 2am), its really crucial to take that factor in mind as going through Firefox tab / scrolling / editing is slow enough to eat up ur time, so be precise in ur course of actions.
• Make sure you practice enough on mock exams labs and killer.sh simulator. I being a Mac user for a while found it really tough to train my muscle memory to use shit+crtl+C instead of command+c (costed me a few secs everytime)
• I would also highly recommend to go through killershell scenarios as well at least twice or thrice.
• You will hardly get any time to revisit solved questions so make sure you do it perfectly in one go (very less chances that u will be able to validate anything) and target high weightage question first.
• Revalidate you context and for questions involving file modification u need to be on control plane nodes make sure to come back to base machine every-time.
• Be extra careful in deleting any resource as there is no way to reset anything. Try adopting to crictl instead of docker.
All the very best with your certification Journey. :+1:

Trung Tran:
Great, congrats on your achievement!

Awantika Nigam:
Congratulations :tada: Could you please take a min and add your success stories over here <#C0459E6K4AZ|achievements>

Gerard:
Congratulations!

David Brunkow:
Super slow at 2AM? and congrats!

Edmund Kueh:
Is ext keyboard allowed ?

Blaise Pabon:
Great Summary, thank you @Rajat Umrao!
I’m no sure I understand
> Try adopting to crictl instead of docker.
Do you mean using the crictl CLI instead of the docker CLI ?

Trung Tran:
@Edmund Kueh, yes external keyboard is allowed.

Rajat Umrao:
Yes @David Brunkow everyone is trying to get late night slots with assumption that latency will be better. i was getting shown 27 people were trying to register before me :stuck_out_tongue:

Rajat Umrao:
Yes @Blaise Pabon adopting use of crictl cli which has similar commands as of docker and also adopting podman for Dockerfile related tasks.

Vârun:
@Rajat Umrao 2.00 am, in which timezone?

I took the exam as well but couldn’t get the passing score. The questions were really really long and the time wasn’t enough for me to solve all questions. But one quick question, during the exam while I was trying to access crictl to inspect a process, I got bunch of authentication issues. How did you over come those issues?