Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Study Guide, 2nd Edition

Appendix B. Exam Review Guide

This book covers all objectives relevant to the exam and more. The tables in this appendix map the exam objective to the corresponding book chapter. Furthermore, you will also find a reference to the Kubernetes documentation. Some foundational objectives important to the exam, such as Pods and namespaces, have not been listed explicitly in the curriculum; however, the book does cover them. You can use the mapping as a reference to review specific objectives in more detail.

Application Design and Build

Exam Objective	Chapter	Reference Documentation	Tutorial
Define, build, and modify container images	Chapter 4	Containers	N/A
Understand Jobs and CronJobs	Chapter 6	Job, CronJob	Indexed Job for Parallel Processing with Static Work Assignment, Automatic Cleanup for Finished Jobs, Running Automated Tasks with a CronJob
Understand multi-container Pod design patterns	Chapter 8	Init Containers, How Pods manage multiple containers	N/A
Utilize persistent and ephemeral volumes	Chapter 7	Ephemeral Volumes, Persistent Volumes, Storage Classes	N/A

Application Deployment

Exam Objective	Chapter	Reference Documentation	Tutorial
Use Kubernetes primitives to implement common deployment strategies	Chapter 11	Deployment Spec Strategy, Canary Deployment	Zero-downtime Deployment in Kubernetes with Jenkins
Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates	Chapter 10	Deployments	Using kubectl to Create a Deployment, Performing a Rolling Update ...