Courseiva provides practice questions to reinforce the Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA concepts tested in the real exam. The real CKA is hands-on and performance-based — these questions build the knowledge foundation for your lab preparation.
Performance-based exam
The real CKA exam is entirely performance-based — you complete practical Kubernetes administration tasks in a live cluster environment. There are no multiple-choice questions. Courseiva practice questions reinforce the concepts and commands you need, but hands-on lab practice with kubeadm, kubectl, and etcd is still required.
Use these questions as a knowledge check
Answer each question, read the explanation carefully, and connect the concept back to the relevant lab task. These questions build the knowledge foundation for hands-on CKA lab practice.
This free CKA mock exam uses the same question distribution as the real Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA exam. Each session draws questions proportionally from all 8 official blueprint domains published by CNCF, so the topic mix you see accurately reflects what you'll face on test day.
CKA Domain Distribution
Cluster Architecture, Installation and Configuration
Services and Networking
Workloads and Scheduling
Storage
Troubleshooting
Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration
Workloads & Scheduling
Services & Networking
Every question is written by certified engineers against the 2026 CKA exam objectives. These are original practice questions — not dumps — so you build real understanding rather than memorising answers.
Both the mock exam and practice test use the same question bank. The difference is in how you use them — and when to use each during your CKA study plan.
Practice test — for learning
Use the CKA practice test when you are studying a domain. Answer questions, read every explanation immediately, and build understanding. Do 10–30 questions per domain per session. This is your primary study tool for the first 4 weeks.
Go to practice test →Concept review — for knowledge check
Use the CKA concept review sessions to benchmark your knowledge coverage across all topics. Work through a full question set, review every explanation, and use weak areas to guide your hands-on lab practice priorities.
Start 120-question concept review →Try these sample questions from the mock exam bank. Commit to an answer before revealing the explanation.
Which control plane component is responsible for storing the cluster state and configuration?
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Which of the following service types exposes a service on a static port on each node's IP address?
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A pod in the 'production' namespace is in a CrashLoopBackOff state. The pod has been running successfully for several days. You run 'kubectl describe pod app-pod -n production' and see the message: 'OOMKilled'. What is the MOST appropriate action to resolve this issue?
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A DevOps team needs to provide persistent storage to a set of pods that all require read-write access to the same data simultaneously. Which volume type should they use?
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A pod named 'web-frontend' is in CrashLoopBackOff. You run 'kubectl logs web-frontend' and see: 'Error: listen tcp :8080: bind: address already in use'. What is the most likely cause and how should you fix it?
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A company wants to install Kubernetes on a set of bare-metal servers with no existing orchestration tools. They need a solution that supports high availability for the control plane and uses etcd operators for cluster management. Which tool should they use?
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A DevOps team wants to ensure that a critical web application pod runs on a dedicated set of nodes with SSDs. Which Kubernetes feature should they use to achieve this?
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A developer created a Deployment with 3 replicas and a ClusterIP Service named 'app-service' on port 80 targeting port 8080 on the pods. Pod logs show that the container is listening on 8080, but curl from another pod in the same namespace to http://app-service:80 fails with 'Connection refused'. What is the most likely cause?
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Answer all 8 questions to see your domain score breakdown
Passing CKA requires both conceptual understanding and hands-on competency. Use these questions to reinforce concepts, then immediately practise the corresponding lab tasks. Candidates who combine concept review with lab exercises pass at significantly higher rates.
Use these questions to confirm you understand the theory behind each CKA topic before attempting it in a lab. If you cannot explain why an answer is correct, revisit the concept before moving to the hands-on exercise.
After each concept question block, immediately run the equivalent command or configuration in a lab environment. Theory without practice does not pass performance-based exams.
Note which topics have low accuracy in these questions. Those are also the lab tasks most likely to trip you up. Prioritise additional hands-on practice in those areas.
The real CKA exam runs 120 minutes. During the exam, read each task description carefully, manage your time across tasks, and move on if stuck — come back rather than losing all remaining time.
Time limit
120 min
Official exam duration
Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA is a performance-based exam. Your score is based on whether tasks are completed correctly in a live environment, not on multiple-choice answers. Strong concept coverage — tested through these questions — is one part of preparation. Hands-on lab practice is still required.
Yes. Courseiva provides free CKA mock exam questions across all official exam domains. The platform includes timed simulation, per-domain score breakdown, missed-question review, and readiness tracking. No account required — free forever, supported by advertising.
The practice test is optimised for learning: you see explanations after each question immediately. The mock exam is optimised for simulation: you answer all questions under time pressure and review at the end. Use practice tests for studying and mock exams for benchmarking.
These questions test your conceptual knowledge. Aim to fully understand every explanation before attempting the hands-on lab exam. High accuracy here indicates solid concept coverage, but hands-on lab practice is still required to pass CKA.
Most candidates preparing for CKA work through these concept questions multiple times while simultaneously doing hands-on lab exercises. Repeat topics where your accuracy is low, then confirm understanding with a lab exercise on the same topic.
No — all Courseiva questions are original, written by certified engineers against public CNCF exam blueprints. Exam dumps are memorised real exam questions shared illegally. Using dumps violates your CNCF certification agreement and can result in your certification being revoked. Our questions make you genuinely competent, not just test-day lucky.
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