Ajay Singh:
Happy to share the news of qualifying the CKAD yesterday. Thanks to KodeKloud team for the wonderful course. Especial thanks to @Mumshad Mannambeth and @Alistair Mackay for the step by step guidance throughout my preparation timeline.
Sharing my mantra here for accomplishing this certification. Might help y’ll, during your preparation
Duration: 1.5months (Started from scratch)
Preparation materials: Udemy CKAD @Mumshad Mannambeth course. (Went through the course twice)
• Recommend to go through 2nd time as well if you have time because, it really helps you to understand the big picture. As this skill is not just for clearing the exam, you also need to understand on where and how can you use create these k8 objects in your production cluster.
• Once, I had the confidence of where to use what and, what’s are the alternatives to create k8 objects, imperatively or declaratively like in our case, went for the mock exams in the course.
Exam Preparation Time: 15 days
- All the labs in the Udemy CKAD course. x 2
- Mock exams in the Udemy CKAD course x 2
- killer.sh session 1 & 2 (Scored
67and89) - Last (CKAD exam
95)
Total Preparation time -2months
Tricks involved during exam:
- Mastered command
kubectl explain(Saved lot of time) - Solved 85% of questions the
imperative way - Got a feeling for a question that it will take time then Flag it, Read it and move on.
- Practice, Practice and Practice your mocks ----> You will see the magic in real exam:dizzy:;
With this great feeling thanks again to this community for all the help. Next stoppage in the journey is CKA
. See you all there soon!!!
