Exam domains and competencies
The overall aim of the KCNA is to test and prove your understanding of the following broad topics:
- Cloud native and microservices architectures
- Kubernetes architecture
- The wider Kubernetes and cloud native landscape (CI/CD, GitOps, observability, security etc.)
- Basics of using kubectl
The exam tests the following topics that it calls domains and competencies, and you’ll notice they map directly to the chapters of the book. However, the book organises them so each chapter builds on the previous one and prepares you for the next one. As the name of the certification suggests, Kubernetes accounts for nearly half of the exam and the Kubernetes questions feel slightly more in-depth than other topics.
- Kubernetes fundamentals: 46%
- Kubernetes resources
- Kubernetes architecture
- Kubernetes API
- Containers
- Scheduling
- Container orchestration: 22%
- Container orchestration fundamentals
- Runtime
- Security
- Networking
- Service mesh...
