Storage - 10%

  1. Implement storage classes and dynamic volume provisioning
  2. Configure volume types, access modes and reclaim policies
  3. Manage persistent volumes and persistent volume claims

Troubleshooting - 30%

  1. Troubleshoot clusters and nodes
  2. Troubleshoot cluster components
  3. Monitor cluster and application resource usage
  4. Manage and evaluate container output streams
  5. Troubleshoot services and networking

Workloads & Scheduling - 15%

  1. Understand application deployments and how to perform rolling update and rollbacks
  2. Use ConfigMaps and Secrets to configure applications
  3. Configure workload autoscaling
  4. Understand the primitives used to create robust, self-healing, application deployments
  5. Configure Pod admission and scheduling (limits, node affinity, etc.)

Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration - 25%

  1. Manage role based access control (RBAC)
  2. Prepare underlying infrastructure for installing a Kubernetes cluster
  3. Create and manage Kubernetes clusters using kubeadm
  4. Manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters
  5. Implement and configure a highly-available control plane
  6. Use Helm and Kustomize to install cluster components
  7. Understand extension interfaces (CNI, CSI, CRI, etc.)
  8. Understand CRDs, install and configure operators

Services & Networking - 20%

  1. Understand connectivity between Pods
  2. Define and enforce Network Policies
  3. Use ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
  4. Use the Gateway API to manage Ingress traffic
  5. Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources
  6. Understand and use CoreDNS