CKA Exam User Interface

Many of my friends ask me how will the CKA Exam User Interface be and are there any links or videos that we can refer to before attempting it?

Here are the links for reference from The Linux Foundation website that give accurate details on the user interface that we see in the exam.

From the documentation site,

https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/tc-docs/certification/lf-candidate-handbook/exam-user-interface

A video posted on Youtube for reference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UqkWcdy140

Details of CKA Exam User Interface

CKA Exam User Inteface Explanation with screenshot taken from the video mentioned above,

1. Gives list of Tasks as a dropdown and we can select respective task. Ex: It may display 17 tasks.

2. Gives information about Task Weight where some of the tasks have a weight of 3% or some tasks have a weight of 13% as well. Ex: Troubleshooting task may take 10% of weightage.

3. It mentions which Cluster the task needs to be executed. Make sure that we are referring to the right cluster while performing the tasks. Check the cluster name and run the task accordingly.

4. The actual Task where information on what needs to be done will be present.

5. We can Flag each question for review later on. This will be useful while reviewing later on for the questions that we need to focus on.

6. The most place in the entire exam where we type all the commands and your ultimate terminal where all the tasks need to be executed.

Note: While running the commands on the terminal,

• Make sure that we are running on the same cluster that they asked us to run on.

• Kubernetes Namespace is verified properly to run the commands

• Make sure that we are not logging out of the Node or Cluster after running the commands.

• Verify each of the task outputs.

Refer to this post for details on CKA Exam.