Tanumoy Ghosh:
Glad to share that I have cleared the CKS Exam completing the Trilogy. It wouldn’t have been possible without the learning structure designed by Kodekloud, must say k8s certs are incomplete without Kodekloud preparation.
Also get to interact with many folks across the globe through this community; even many of them put a remarkable impression on me throughout the journey which is the biggest take-away.
Special mention to @unnivkn who was always there to answer my silly and long queries patiently. I wish everyone good luck and will leave my CKS experience in the thread.
unnivkn:
Congratulation @Tanumoy Ghosh great achievement!!!
Tanumoy Ghosh:
About CKS Exam:
Preparation:
I went through both Kim's Udemy Course (practiced all the commands without any issues in my own cluster instead of GCP as Kim suggested) and obviously Kodekloud one.
While doing the Kodekloud Topic Labs, I started doing the bookmarks.
I attempted all the 3 Mock Exams from Kodekloud until I secure 100% in each of them.
Next I have attempted killer shell and put full attention on the solution and try to connect to them.
I have pretty well figured out by now from which areas question will come, so I have re-worked on my bookmarks again - kicking out the unnecessary ones and re-ordering by keeping the most obvious ones on top.
I retried the killer shell once again within the 36 hours window to check if I can re-collect all the things properly.
This made me pretty confident as it claims killer shell standard is bit higher than actual exam.
Then once again solved all the Kodekloud Labs and Mock Exams.
I was full confident and booked the exam slot.
Exam Experience:
I was bit fearful since CKS seems to be difficult as per perception and it’s like running against time as you need to refer the bookmarks extensively compared to the other two k8s exam.
But the best part - number of questions were less than CKA or CKAD; so my goal was to make 13 & 7 mark question to be fully correct by any means - no matter how much time it requires.
I didn’t find any of the CKS question which wasn’t straight-forward; but I felt bit exhausted towards the end as you have to use your brain too much. I prepared with full effort in CKAD and CKA also, but still 1 or 2 questions were there where I have no idea. But for CKS it was never like that. Having said that, never take it eas~il~y, practice a lot, you’ll realize whether you’re prepared or not to book the exam ~or not~.
Based on the CKS Question set I received, I can say Kodekloud Mock and Killer shell was more than enough for me.