Certification Exam Cram: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Build confidence and increase your chances of passing
Join Benjamin Muschko for this interactive event to find out if you’re ready for the journey to Kubernetes mastery. Ben will take you through the CKAD certification, provide detailed exam information, and help you get started building your study plan.
This event is for anyone who’s planning to take the CKAD certification:
- Get help navigating the exam formats, knowledge hot spots, and resources to prepare
- Learn the best test-taking strategies and time management techniques
- Review the toughest areas of content on the exam
- Have your questions answered by a certification expert
This event will be presented in a new format that brings the audience into the action. The first 50 people to join get optional camera and mic access for the opportunity to ask questions and interact directly with your trainer and peers. You can turn your camera off at any time and you can always interact through chat. Please read the O'Reilly learning platform code of conduct.
About the Certification Exam Cram series
These highly interactive events help learners who’ve started preparing for the exam to build confidence and increase their chances of passing. Expert instructors answer your questions and provide skill-and-drill practice while covering hot topics, challenging exam areas, and time management strategies, among other subjects.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Discover the degree of question difficulty and problems you may encounter on the CKAD exam
- Identify the most challenging parts of the exam and how best to manage your time in completing them
- Learn test-taking strategies to avoid panic and perform at your best
This live event is for you because...
- You’ve started preparing for the CKAD exam.
- You want to assess your readiness for passing the exam.
- You have questions about the exam for our expert.
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of cloud native applications and cloud provider environments
- A good understanding of the Kubernetes architecture and its concepts
- Come with your questions for Benjamin Muschko
Recommended follow-up:
- Review Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) (certification guide)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Navigating the certification program (20 minutes)
- Interaction: Post questions in Q&A
- Presentation: Certifications, target audience, and exam formats; order of execution; exam resources
- Hands-on exercise: Navigate the content on the O’Reilly platform
- Q&A
Top five content questions (15 minutes)
- Hands-on exercise: Explore the questions
- Q&A
What to expect from the exam (25 minutes)
- Presentation: Signing up for the exam; PSI exam environment; time management; what happens after taking the exam
- Q&A
- Break (5 minutes)
Exam hands-on (60 minutes)
- Presentation: Curriculum overview
- Hands-on exercises: Solve representative problems via O’Reilly interactive labs
- Q&A
- Break (5 minutes)
From certification to the real world (35 minutes)
- Presentation: Employer perception of the certification; How much of the certification is applicable to the real world?; What do I need to learn next?
- Q&A
Open format (15 minutes)
- Pick Ben’s brain about anything Kubernetes-related, whether relevant to the exam or not
- Final Q&As
- Parting words
Your Host
Benjamin Muschko
Benjamin Muschko is a software engineer, consultant, and trainer with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. He specializes in cloud-native application development and transformation, container solutions, DevSecOps, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery implementations. Ben is an author, a frequent speaker at conferences, and an avid open source advocate.