CGOA practice test

CGOA exam snapshot

Exam facts from the Linux Foundation pages, checked 2026-10-23; full table with sources on the CGOA certification page.

What this CGOA practice test is

This page starts a free CGOA practice session on GoldenKube. The official CGOA exam is 60 questions in 90 minutes with a passing score of 75%, as read from the Linux Foundation documentation on 2026-10-23. The GoldenKube CGOA bank held 280 questions when this page was written; the live count is shown above. One question at a time. As soon as you answer you see whether you were right and read the explanation; reloading the page keeps the verdict on screen. The next question comes from the questions due for review first, then from the domain where you are weakest and still have unseen questions, then from the rest of the bank. Use it after reading the OpenGitOps principles once; the questions are mostly about recognising a principle or pattern in a described setup.

Every CGOA question in the bank has a written explanation, so a wrong answer is always followed by the reasoning that fixes it.

What the CGOA bank covers

The CGOA bank covers GitOps terminology, the principles, related practices, patterns and tooling, with an emphasis on the declarative, reconciled desired-state model that the exam returns to in most questions. The table compares the official domain weights, checked against the CGOA certification page on 2026-10-23, with the share of the bank each domain holds and the number of explained questions, both read from the database when the page is served. GitOps Principles is the heaviest domain at 30%, so it deserves the largest share of your study time whatever the bank's share is.

All 280 questions have a written explanation. Live from the database; the CGOA bank coverage report explains the method.

A domain whose bank share is well below its weight is one to study from the official curriculum and the project documentation as well; the bank-coverage report linked below tracks these gaps over time.

Try three CGOA questions

Three questions from the bank with their answers and explanations. The CGOA sample-questions page has twenty more; the practice session has the whole bank.

Mock exam

The CGOA mock exam draws 60 questions from the bank, gives you 90 minutes and scores the run against the 75% threshold, the same numbers as the official format. It is a timed rehearsal of pacing and stamina, not a prediction: the questions are GoldenKube's own and the result is practice feedback. Mock exams need a free account; your history of runs is kept on the exam's mock page.

How to get the most out of practice

Short daily sessions beat one long one, because the review ladder works on days: A wrong answer returns after 12 other answers, then after 1 day and after 4 days when answered correctly, until it counts as mastered. A wrong answer at any step restarts the ladder. Focus mode limits practice to one domain or subdomain until you leave it. Read the explanation even when you are right, mark the concept behind every miss, and move to a mock exam only when the per-domain view shows no domain far behind the others. Your first 10 answers need no account. After that a free account keeps your progress; there is no paid tier and no card.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Certified GitOps Associate (official certification page) (read 2026-10-23)