| Scheduling | 5% |
| Use label selectors to schedule Pods. | |
| Understand the role of DaemonSets. | |
| Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling. | |
| Understand how to run multiple schedulers and how to configure Pods to use them. | |
| Manually schedule a pod without a scheduler. | |
| Display scheduler events. | |
| Know how to configure the Kubernetes scheduler. | |
| Logging/Monitoring | 5% |
| Understand how to monitor all cluster components. | |
| Understand how to monitor applications. | |
| Manage cluster component logs. | |
| Manage application logs. | |
| Application Lifecycle Management | 8% |
| Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates and rollbacks. | |
| Know various ways to configure applications. | |
| Know how to scale applications. | |
| Understand the primitives necessary to create a self-healing application. | |
| Cluster Maintenance | 11% |
| Understand Kubernetes cluster upgrade process. | |
| Facilitate operating system upgrades. | |
| Implement backup and restore methodologies. | |
| Security | 12% |
| Know how to configure authentication and authorization. | |
| Understand Kubernetes security primitives. | |
| Know to configure network policies. | |
| Create and manage TLS certificates for cluster components. | |
| Work with images securely. | |
| Define security contexts. | |
| Secure persistent key value store. | |
| Work with role-based access control. | |
| Storage | 7% |
| Understand persistent volumes and know how to create them. | |
| Understand access modes for volumes. | |
| Understand persistent volume claims primitive. | |
| Understand Kubernetes storage objects. | |
| Know how to configure applications with persistent storage. | |
| Troubleshooting | 10% |
| Troubleshoot application failure. | |
| Troubleshoot control plane failure. | |
| Troubleshoot worker node failure. | |
| Troubleshoot networking. | |
| Core Concepts | 19% |
| Understand the Kubernetes API primitives. | |
| Understand the Kubernetes cluster architecture. | |
| Understand Services and other network primitives. | |
| Networking | 11% |
| Understand the networking configuration on the cluster nodes. | |
| Understand Pod networking concepts. | |
| Understand service networking. | |
| Deploy and configure network load balancer. | |
| Know how to use Ingress rules. | |
| Know how to configure and use the cluster DNS. | |
| Understand CNI. | |
| Installation, Configuration & Validation | 12% |
| Design a Kubernetes cluster. | |
| Install Kubernetes masters and nodes, including the use of TLS bootstrapping. | |
| Configure secure cluster communications. | |
| Configure a Highly-Available Kubernetes cluster. | |
| Know where to get the Kubernetes release binaries. | |
| Provision underlying infrastructure to deploy a Kubernetes cluster. | |
| Choose a network solution. | |
| Choose your Kubernetes infrastructure configuration. | |
| Run end-to-end tests on your cluster. | |
| Analyse end-to-end tests results. | |
| Run Node end-to-end tests. |