KCA question bank coverage by exam domain
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The GoldenKube KCA bank has no questions labelled Writing Policies, the most heavily weighted Kyverno exam domain, and a large mixed set that is not tied to one domain. Policy Management gets more room than its weight. Every question is explained. The table shows the live counts per domain, share and gap.
| Official domain | Weight | Questions | Share | Gap (pts) | Explained | Topic pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamentals of Kyverno | 18% | 54 | 16% | −1.8 | 54 | 4 |
| Installation, Configuration, and Upgrades | 18% | 54 | 16% | −1.8 | 54 | 0 |
| Kyverno CLI | 12% | 30 | 9.0% | −3.0 | 30 | 0 |
| Applying Policies | 10% | 42 | 13% | +2.6 | 42 | 3 |
| Writing Policies | 32% | 0 | 0% | −32.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Policy Management | 10% | 48 | 14% | +4.4 | 48 | 3 |
| Mixed sets, not tied to one domain (Mixed Practice) | — | 106 | 32% | — | 106 | — |
| Whole bank | 100% | 334 | 100% | — | 334 | 10 |
Counts read from the live KCA bank. Weights as published on the official certification page, checked .
What the table measures
Each row is one official KCA exam domain, in the order and with the weight the Linux Foundation publishes. The question count is read from the GoldenKube KCA bank when the page is served, so it always matches what you can practise today. Share is that count divided by the whole bank, and the gap column is the share minus the official weight, in percentage points: a positive gap means the bank has more questions on that domain than the exam weight alone would suggest, a negative gap means fewer. Explained counts the questions that come with a written explanation, and topic pages counts the public topic pages built from that domain.
Some bank sets use their own domain names; those are mapped to the official domain they cover. Mixed practice sets that span several domains are not forced into one row and are listed separately, which is why the official rows can add up to less than the whole bank.
The weights describe the exam, not this bank. A gap is not an error in the exam or in your preparation, it only tells you where practising here gives you more or less material than the exam is likely to ask about.
Where the KCA bank leans
Writing Policies is the gap that matters: the exam gives it the largest weight, and no bank question carries that domain label. Some of the mixed practice questions involve policy rules, but they are not labelled by domain, so the page does not count them towards Writing Policies. Policy Management is the one domain clearly above its weight. Fundamentals of Kyverno, Installation, Configuration, and Upgrades, Kyverno CLI and Applying Policies sit near their weights. Because the mixed set is a large part of the bank, every official share reads lower than it would otherwise.
How to use this when you practise KCA
Practise writing policies outside the bank. Install Kyverno in a local cluster and write validate, mutate and generate rules by hand, with match and exclude blocks, preconditions and variables, then test them with the Kyverno CLI. Use the bank for the surrounding knowledge: installation, the CLI, policy reports and exceptions. The mixed practice set is a good final check, because it mixes domains the way the exam does.
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