Road to Golden Kubestronaut — exam prep for every CNCF certification

Free practice for all 16 Golden Kubestronaut exams — CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCNA, KCSA, PCA and more: official domains, exam-style questions, mock exams.

Kubestronaut: the five Kubernetes exams

• KCNA — Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate: The on-ramp: Kubernetes basics plus the wider cloud native ecosystem. (4 domains, multiple choice)
• KCSA — Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate: Security fundamentals for Kubernetes and the cloud native stack. (6 domains, multiple choice)
• CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator: Install, configure, secure and fix real clusters from the command line. (5 domains, hands-on)
• CKAD — Certified Kubernetes Application Developer: Build, configure, expose and debug applications on Kubernetes — fast, in a terminal. (5 domains, hands-on)
• CKS — Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist: Secure clusters and workloads at build, deploy and runtime — hands-on. (6 domains, hands-on)

Golden Kubestronaut: every other CNCF certification, plus LFCS

• PCA — Prometheus Certified Associate: Metrics, PromQL, instrumentation and alerting with Prometheus. (5 domains, multiple choice)
• OTCA — OpenTelemetry Certified Associate: Telemetry fundamentals, the OpenTelemetry API/SDK and the Collector. (4 domains, multiple choice)
• ICA — Istio Certified Associate: Install, route, secure and troubleshoot an Istio service mesh. (4 domains, hands-on)
• CCA — Cilium Certified Associate: eBPF-powered networking, policy, observability and service mesh with Cilium. (8 domains, multiple choice)
• CAPA — Certified Argo Project Associate: Argo Workflows, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts and Argo Events. (4 domains, multiple choice)
• CGOA — Certified GitOps Associate: GitOps terminology, the four OpenGitOps principles, patterns and tooling. (5 domains, multiple choice)
• CBA — Certified Backstage Associate: Build, configure, populate and customize a Backstage developer portal. (4 domains, multiple choice)
• KCA — Kyverno Certified Associate: Policy as code for Kubernetes: write, apply, test and manage Kyverno policies. (6 domains, multiple choice)
• CNPA — Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate: Platform engineering fundamentals: IDPs, GitOps, platform APIs, security and DORA. (6 domains, multiple choice)
• CNPE — Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer: Hands-on platform engineering: GitOps, platform APIs, observability, policy and cost. (5 domains, hands-on)
• LFCS — Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator: Hands-on Linux administration: services, networking, storage, users and essential commands. (5 domains, hands-on)