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KCNA Exam Prep

Exam Prep Guide for Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA).

https://wrijugh.github.io/kcna/

Released in Nov 2021. For official guidance please always refer the exam registration page.

Exam Registration Page

For the exam regirtration, candidate handbook and curriculum etc.

https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/kubernetes-cloud-native-associate/

Candidate Handbook

All about the exam and policy.

https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/tc-docs/certification/lf-handbook2

Curriculum

You must refer it very well before and while preparing the exam.

https://github.com/cncf/curriculum/blob/master/KCNA_Curriculum.pdf

46% - Kubernetes Fundamentals

• Kubernetes Resources

  https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/components/

• Kubernetes Architecture

  https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/

• Kubernetes API

  https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/kubernetes-api/

• Containers

  https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/containers/

• Scheduling

  https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/

22% - Container Orchestration

• Container Orchestration Fundamentals

  https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/container-orchestration

• Runtime

  https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/containers/runtime-class/

• Security

  https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/security/

• Networking

  https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/network/

• Service Mesh

  https://glossary.cncf.io/service_mesh/

  https://openservicemesh.io/

  https://istio.io/latest/about/service-mesh/

• Storage

  https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/

16% - Cloud Native Architecture

Open Standards: Anchoring Extensibility for Cloud-Native Tooling - Katie Gamanji, CNCF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMj92DK6R-A

Cloud Native Landscape

https://landscape.cncf.io

Cloud Native Glossary

https://glossary.cncf.io/

• Cloud Native Architecture Fundamentals

  https://www.ibm.com/cloud/architecture/architecture/practices/cloud-native-principles/

• Autoscaling

  https://glossary.cncf.io/auto_scaling/

• Serverless

  https://glossary.cncf.io/serverless/

• Community and Governance

  https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/08/30/cncf-technical-principles-and-open-governance-success/

• Personas

  https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-management/1.3.0?topic=about-personas-use-cases

• Open Standards

  • Container Runtime Interface (CRI) CRI implemented for Kubernetes for OCI (Open Container Initiative)

  https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/cri/

  • Container Network Interface (CNI)

    https://github.com/containernetworking/cni

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2BS_kuQxBA

  • Container Storage Interface (CSI)

    https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/01/15/container-storage-interface-ga/

    https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/

  • Service Mesh Interface (SMI)

    https://github.com/servicemeshinterface/smi-spec/blob/main/SPEC_LATEST_STABLE.md

    https://smi-spec.io/

  • Cloud Provider Interface (CPI)

    https://cloud-provider-vsphere.sigs.k8s.io/cloud_provider_interface.html

8% - Cloud Native Observability

• Telemetry & Observability Metrics, Events, Logs, Traces

  OpenTelemetry

  https://opentelemetry.io/

  https://glossary.cncf.io/observability/

• Prometheus

  https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/

• Cost Management

  https://www.finops.org/introduction/what-is-finops/

8% - Cloud Native Application Delivery

• Application Delivery Fundamentals

  https://glossary.cncf.io/agile_software_development/

  https://glossary.cncf.io/application_programming_interface/

• GitOps

  https://www.weave.works/technologies/gitops/

  https://www.weave.works/technologies/monitoring-kubernetes-with-prometheus/#deploy-new-features

  GitOps E-book

  https://www.gitops.tech/

• CI/CD

  https://glossary.cncf.io/continuous_integration/

  https://glossary.cncf.io/continuous_delivery/

  https://glossary.cncf.io/continuous_deployment/

Additional Resources

There are quite a few resources already available over the internet. If you search “KCNA Exam Prep” you will get few which are very well written. I am adding few here. If you find more please mention or create a pull request, I will add them to the list.

• FreeCodeCamp 14 hour course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AplluksKvzI

• How to Pass your KCNA Exam by Brad McCoy

  One of the very first blogs about KCNA just immediately after the exam back in Nov 2021. https://blog.bradmccoy.io/how-to-pass-your-kcna-exam-cf98cfa7d70f

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