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CKAFree Certified Kubernetes Administrator practice test
10 original CKA questions, playable right now. No account, no card, no email gate. Every answer opens the full explanation: the concept, why the right option is right, and why each wrong option is wrong, cited to the authoritative documentation behind it.
Sample question 1 of 10
Four minutes after kubeadm init on a single node, the control plane is up and the namespace looks like this.
$ kubectl get pods -n kube-systemNAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGEcoredns-668d6bf9bc-4kx7t 0/1 Pending 0 4mcoredns-668d6bf9bc-p9x2s 0/1 Pending 0 4metcd-cp-1 1/1 Running 0 4mkube-apiserver-cp-1 1/1 Running 0 4mkube-controller-manager-cp-1 1/1 Running 0 4mkube-scheduler-cp-1 1/1 Running 0 4mWhat is the next step?
Sample question 2 of 10
Before editing a control plane manifest you copy it to kube-apiserver.yaml.backup inside /etc/kubernetes/manifests. What does the kubelet do with that backup file?
Sample question 3 of 10
An engineer resolves the DNS name of a headless Service, which carries no cluster IP. What does that name resolve to?
Sample question 4 of 10
An engineer notices that when a node goes NotReady its application Pods are evicted after five minutes, while the DaemonSet Pod on that node stays. Why?
Sample question 5 of 10
A 100Gi volume sits Available while the claim that should use it stays Pending.
$ kubectl get pv archive-01NAME CAPACITY ACCESS MODES RECLAIM POLICY STATUS CLAIM STORAGECLASS AGEarchive-01 100Gi RWO Retain Available <unset> 6m $ kubectl get pvc archiveNAME STATUS VOLUME CAPACITY ACCESS MODES STORAGECLASS AGEarchive Pending standard 6mWhy do they not bind?
Sample question 6 of 10
A pod has been in Pending for ten minutes. kubectl describe pod ends with:
Warning FailedScheduling 0/3 nodes are available: 3 Insufficient memory.What is happening?
Sample question 7 of 10
A colleague reports that a SAN added to the kubeadm-config ConfigMap last month is still missing from the apiserver certificate after a renewal. Why?
Sample question 8 of 10
A Service has no endpoints and traffic to it fails, although the pods are Running and Ready. What is the most likely cause?
Sample question 9 of 10
During peak traffic a container sits at its CPU limit. Response times climb and its restart count has not moved. What is the kernel doing to that container?
Sample question 10 of 10
A PersistentVolumeClaim stays Pending. The cluster has a PersistentVolume with enough capacity and a matching access mode. What else would prevent them binding?
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What this test covers
These 10 questions are drawn across the published exam blueprint rather than from one chapter: this set touches Troubleshooting, Cluster Architecture, Installation and Configuration, Services and Networking, Workloads and Scheduling, Storage. Every question is original, written from the official objectives, and verified against a cited vendor page before it serves. None are recalled exam content, which is why the explanations can cite their sources.
A 10-question sample tells you where you stand, not whether you are ready. The full experience is numbered practice exams: 15 questions apportioned to the official domain weightings, sat under the real 120-minute clock and scored against the published cut score.
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