Brian Langer:
Hey everyone, I’m so happy to share with you that I’ve passed my CKAD exam (91/100), it took exactly 24hs to receive the score.
Thanks so much to @kloudworms, @Mumshad Mannambeth and the big community behind it.
I personally focused first in understanding the concepts, and then practicing the labs over and over for each topic, randomly, so I could know very quickly where to find things in http://kubernetes.io/docs|kubernetes.io/docs, which is allowed during the exam.
Doing the mock exams and the lighting labs were key to test my knowledge and give me speed with kubectl, and lastly, I left the 2 free killer.sh sessions for the last days before the exam so I could access them at any time, reset the session and start over.
Practice was the key, even if you have the knowledge, that’s just a part of it, you need the speed (finding things in the documentation fast and using commands like kubectl run/create --dry-run=client -oyaml to your advantage).
I’d recommend also doing the labs in killer.sh -not just the mock exams- they are free; any playground you can find to practice, go ahead and use it, do them randomly so you get that element of surprise; rotate through them.
CKAD is a tough exam, don’t underestimate it and don’t feel down if you don’t make it the first tries.
The exam was pretty smooth on my end, I just had to be sure I was passing the system checks successfully the night before, and lucky I checked as BitDefender was blocking my audio and took me a while to find out.
Anyways, thanks again, I’m super happy – CKA here I go!
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