Difference between CKA and CKAD exams

Manasi:
Anyone here who has passed CKA and CKAD both? Do you find CKAD harder than CKA? If so how?

I have passed CKA and giving CKAD soon.

KK:
CKAD is a subset of CKA. You just need to be fast enough for CKAD. Time Management is very important.

KK:
Go through the lighting labs to speedup

Manasi:
so if it is subset… shouldn’t it be easier?

Manasi:
I am passing mock test in 45 mins. and somehow managing to finish lightening labs

Manasi:
I ran out of time in CKA when I gave and missed 1 big question :disappointed:

Sushant Pradhan:
CKA is 24 questions in 3 and CKAD 18 in 2. I have cleared both and personally I would say CKAD is tougher just becuase of time management. CKA is a bigger course but time is on your side

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Manasi:
Thanks Akhil. wow and I ran out of time in CKA. so CKAD is going to be definitely tougher.

Manasi:
Other than time management anything else you would advice?

Sushant Pradhan:
imperative commands will be great use

Manasi:
I agree. I have tried my best to practice with them including --dry-run and -o yaml

Sushant Pradhan:
and sometime being smart…eg… one question may ask you to fix a deployment and next question may ask you to create a new deployment. So what you can do is to export the first deployment as yaml and edit it for 2nd question

Sushant Pradhan:
you got it

Sushant Pradhan:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubectl/kubectl-commands

Manasi:
Yeah that’s a smart thing to do. Noted

Manasi:
This one is cool. Can we bookmark and use it as it is http://kubernetes.io|kubernetes.io?

Sushant Pradhan:
as such content wise, ckad is much easier…if you manage time and complete questions on time

Sushant Pradhan:
yes you can

Sushant Pradhan:
for ckad…use this also: https://github.com/dgkanatsios/CKAD-exercises

Manasi:
Time is the biggest challenge I felt on CKA so this time it’s going to be harder for sure.