Domains

Ordered by exam weight. Each page is a set of diagnostic decision trees rather than a topic list, because the exam asks you to fix things, not to describe them.

30% of the exam

Troubleshooting

The largest domain. Organised as symptom → decision tree → minimal command sequence.

25% of the exam

Cluster Architecture, Installation and Configuration

RBAC, kubeadm lifecycle, etcd, HA control plane, Helm/Kustomize, extension interfaces, CRDs and operators.

20% of the exam

Services and Networking

Pod connectivity, Services and endpoints, NetworkPolicy, Ingress, Gateway API, CoreDNS.

15% of the exam

Workloads and Scheduling

Deployments and rollouts, ConfigMaps and Secrets, autoscaling, self-healing primitives, scheduling controls.

10% of the exam

Storage

StorageClasses and dynamic provisioning, volume types, access modes, reclaim policies, PV/PVC binding.