Exam-style tasks for the performance-based certifications, run on a real kubeadm cluster on your own Mac with the GoldenKube CLI and graded locally. Each card shows the task's domain, the cluster topology it needs, the recommended time and its points; the detail page has the full task text.
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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
Expose an existing Deployment inside the cluster with a ClusterIP Service that selects all its pods.
Two nodes · ~6 min · 5 points
goldenkube start cka-net-001
Expose a Deployment outside the cluster with a NodePort Service on a specific node port.
Two nodes · ~6 min · 5 points
goldenkube start cka-net-002
Create a headless Service (clusterIP None) that selects an existing Deployment's pods.
Two nodes · ~6 min · 5 points
goldenkube start cka-net-006
Expose a Deployment on a Service port that differs from the container port.
Two nodes · ~6 min · 5 points
goldenkube start cka-net-007
Service name resolution has stopped working; investigate and restore the cluster DNS component.
Two nodes · ~5 min · 5 points
goldenkube start cka-trb-005
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
Run one Pod per node, including the control plane, with a DaemonSet.
Two nodes · ~6 min · 5 points
goldenkube start cka-wkl-004
Pin a Pod to nodes with a given label using required node affinity rather than a nodeSelector.
Two nodes · ~6 min · 5 points
goldenkube start cka-wkl-005
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
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