Certified Kubernetes Administrator: exam-style tasks on a real kubeadm cluster on your own Mac, built and graded by the GoldenKube CLI. Each card shows the domain, the cluster topology it needs, the recommended time and its points; the scenario page has the full task text. Scenarios are verified on Kubernetes 1.37.
Published scenarios per official CKA domain, next to the domain's exam weight (checked 2026-10-23 on the official page). 37 published scenarios today.
| Domain | Exam weight | Published scenarios |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | 10% | 4 |
| Troubleshooting | 30% | 9 |
| Workloads & Scheduling | 15% | 9 |
| Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration | 25% | 8 |
| Services & Networking | 20% | 7 |
goldenkube exam cka draws a curriculum-weighted set: 15 tasks in 120 minutes, pass at 66%. Solutions and hints are hidden in exam mode.
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Create a ServiceAccount and a controller-populated long-lived token Secret bound to it.
Single node · ~6 min · 5 points
goldenkube start cka-arc-004
Create a non-default PriorityClass and run a Pod that uses it.
Single node · ~6 min · 5 points
goldenkube start cka-arc-008
A Deployment's pods cannot pull their image; correct the image and get the replicas Ready.
Single node · ~5 min · 5 points
goldenkube start cka-trb-009
Create a multi-replica Deployment with a memory request and a declared container port.
Single node · ~5 min · 4 points
goldenkube start cka-wkl-001
Update the image of a running Deployment with a rolling update and confirm all pods run the new image.
Single node · ~4 min · 4 points
goldenkube start cka-wkl-002
Create a Pod whose resource settings place it in the Guaranteed QoS class.
Single node · ~4 min · 4 points
goldenkube start cka-wkl-006
Run a batch Job that must complete a fixed number of times with limited parallelism.
Single node · ~5 min · 4 points
goldenkube start cka-wkl-007
goldenkube doctor.goldenkube login (free account).goldenkube submit; the result appears on your dashboard.Grading happens on your machine and is practice feedback, not an official score. Tasks are public; hints, reference solutions and grader internals are not.
The scenarios are published and the CLI runs them end to end, but the first signed public build is not on the Homebrew tap yet, so the catalog is in preview. The task text of every scenario is public now; running one needs the CLI release.
No. They are GoldenKube scenarios written to cover the published CKA domains in the same style: a live cluster, a situation, a task. GoldenKube does not have or claim exam content.
On your machine. Each scenario has a fixed set of state checks; on submit the grader reads your live cluster and the scenario passes when every check passes. Hints, the reference solution and the check definitions stay inside the CLI.