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Workloads & Scheduling practice questions

Practise Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA Workloads & Scheduling practice questions — original exam-style scenarios with answer choices, explanations, and analysis of common mistakes.

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20 questionsDomain: Workloads & Scheduling

What the exam tests

What to know about Workloads & Scheduling

Workloads & Scheduling questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

Watch out for

Common Workloads & Scheduling exam traps

  • Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
  • Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
  • Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
  • Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

Practice set

Workloads & Scheduling questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

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?

A Kubernetes cluster has a deployment with 3 replicas. After a node failure, you notice that only 2 pods are running, and the deployment has not rescheduled the missing pod. What is the most likely cause?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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You have a StatefulSet with 5 pods, each requiring a unique stable network identity. The StatefulSet is scaled down from 5 to 3. Which pods will be terminated?

An application requires that a pod runs on a node that has a GPU. The cluster has nodes with and without GPUs labeled as 'gpu=true' and 'gpu=false'. Which scheduling method should be used?

A cluster administrator wants to ensure that no pods are scheduled on the master node(s). Which approach is the best practice?

A pod is stuck in 'Pending' state. The 'kubectl describe pod' output shows the event: '0/4 nodes are available: 3 node(s) had taint {node.kubernetes.io/unreachable: }, and 1 node(s) had taint {node.kubernetes.io/not-ready: }.' What is the most likely reason?

You have a Deployment that runs a batch job. The job should run on a node that has a specific custom resource (e.g., a license dongle). Which approach should you use?

A developer wants to deploy a pod that will run only once to initialize a database schema. Which Kubernetes resource should they use?

Which TWO of the following are valid methods to ensure a pod is scheduled on a node that is part of a specific availability zone? (Assume nodes are labeled with 'failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone').

Which THREE of the following are characteristics of DaemonSets?

Which TWO of the following are valid reasons to use a StatefulSet instead of a Deployment?

You are managing a Kubernetes cluster that hosts a microservices application. One of the services, 'payment-processor', is critical and must always be available. It has a Deployment with 3 replicas, each requesting 1 CPU and 2Gi memory. Recently, the team added a new service 'data-analyzer' that runs as a DaemonSet on all nodes, consuming significant CPU and memory. After the addition, you notice that 'payment-processor' pods are occasionally being evicted, and new pods are slow to be scheduled. You check node resource usage and find that some nodes are overcommitted. You want to ensure that 'payment-processor' pods are never evicted and are scheduled before less critical workloads. Which action should you take?

Question 13mediummultiple choice
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Your team is deploying a new application that consists of a web frontend and a backend API. The frontend must be accessible from outside the cluster, and the backend should only be accessible from within the cluster. The cluster has multiple namespaces: 'frontend' and 'backend'. You have been asked to design the deployment. The frontend Deployment should have 5 replicas, and the backend Deployment should have 3 replicas. Additionally, you need to ensure that the frontend pods can communicate with the backend pods using a stable DNS name. You also want to isolate the backend from other namespaces. Which set of resources should you create?

A developer deployed a Pod that is stuck in Pending state. The cluster has one worker node with taint 'node.kubernetes.io/disk-pressure:NoSchedule'. The Pod does not specify any tolerations. What is the most likely cause?

An administrator wants to ensure that a critical Pod always runs on a node that has an SSD. Which approach should be used?

A team observes that a Deployment's Pods are being scheduled on nodes with different architectures (amd64 and arm64). The Deployment does not specify nodeSelector or affinity. The cluster has a mix of node pools. What is the best practice to ensure Pods only run on amd64 nodes?

A Pod with a restartPolicy of 'OnFailure' exits with code 0. What will happen?

A company runs a batch job that processes a queue. The job should run to completion exactly once. Which resource should be used?

A Kubernetes cluster has a node pool with GPU nodes labeled 'accelerator=nvidia-tesla'. A Pod requires a GPU. Which configuration is necessary?

Question 20mediummultiple choice
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A Deployment has replicas=3 and uses RollingUpdate with maxSurge=1 and maxUnavailable=1. During an update, one new Pod is created, and one old Pod is terminated. What is the total number of Pods during the update?

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Frequently asked questions

What does the CKA exam test about Workloads & Scheduling?
Workloads & Scheduling questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.
How should I use these practice questions?
Select your answer before revealing the explanation. Then read why each option is right or wrong — this active recall approach builds retention far faster than re-reading notes.
Can I practise just Workloads & Scheduling questions in a focused session?
Yes — the session launcher on this page draws every question from the Workloads & Scheduling domain. Use a 10-question session first to gauge your baseline, then move to 20 or 30 once the weak spots are clear.
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These are original practice questions written to test the same concepts the CKA exam covers. They are not copied from any real exam or dump site.