Free Certification Practice Questions

Validates foundational knowledge of Kubernetes and the broader cloud native ecosystem, including Kubernetes fundamentals, container orchestration, cloud native architecture, observability, and application delivery concepts.

Validates foundational knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud native security, including core Kubernetes security concepts, platform protection, threat modeling, and compliance frameworks used to secure cloud native environments.

Validates foundational knowledge of observability and practical skills using Prometheus, including core Prometheus concepts, querying, instrumentation, exporters, alerting, and dashboarding for cloud native applications and infrastructure.

Validates foundational knowledge of connecting, securing, and observing Kubernetes clusters using Cilium, including Cilium architecture, policy, service mesh, observability, installation, cluster mesh, eBPF, and external networking concepts.

Validates foundational knowledge of Backstage for internal developer platforms, including local development workflows, infrastructure and deployment concepts, catalog management, and customization of Backstage applications and plugins.

Validates foundational knowledge of Kyverno for Kubernetes policy management, including installation, CLI usage, applying policies, writing policy rules, and managing policy-driven security and compliance workflows in Kubernetes environments.

Validates foundational knowledge of GitOps principles, terminology, patterns, related practices, and tooling used to implement and manage GitOps-driven software delivery in cloud native environments.

Validates foundational knowledge of cloud native platform engineering, including platform architecture, declarative resource management, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security, and developer experience concepts required to build and manage modern internal developer platforms at scale.

Validates foundational knowledge of observability concepts and OpenTelemetry, including telemetry data, semantic conventions, instrumentation, the OpenTelemetry API and SDK, Collector configuration and pipelines, and maintaining and debugging observability systems.

Validates foundational FinOps knowledge, including cloud cost challenges, FinOps principles, team collaboration, capabilities, lifecycle phases, and cloud billing concepts used to improve business value from cloud spend.

Validates ability to navigate the Argo Project ecosystem including Argo Workflows, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, and Argo Events, demonstrating understanding of when and why to use each tool for DevOps, GitOps, platform engineering, and cloud-native automation.