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CKADFree Certified Kubernetes Application Developer practice test
10 original CKAD 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
A manifest sets allowPrivilegeEscalation: false, yet the review flags that the setting is meaningless for this container. What makes that true?
Sample question 2 of 10
A team pulls one misbehaving Pod out of a ReplicaSet for forensics by editing its labels so the selector no longer matches it. What does the ReplicaSet do?
Sample question 3 of 10
After a restart, an init container reruns and rewrites a config file into an emptyDir volume the app container reads. What must its code tolerate?
Sample question 4 of 10
A Service exposes port 80 while its Pods listen on 9376. Which field pair expresses that in the Service spec?
Sample question 5 of 10
A Pod stays Pending, and describe shows this event.
Events: Type Reason Message ---- ------ ------- Warning FailedScheduling pod failed to fit in any node fit failure on node (node-6ta5): Node didn't have enough resource: CPU, requested: 1000, used: 1420, capacity: 2000What does the event tell you?
Sample question 6 of 10
A Pod must expose every key of a ConfigMap as environment variables without listing them one by one. Which spec construct does that?
Sample question 7 of 10
A Deployment volume names example-configmap-1, and the same kustomization generates that ConfigMap.
resources: - deployment.yamlconfigMapGenerator: - name: example-configmap-1 files: - application.propertiesWhat does the rendered Deployment mount?
Sample question 8 of 10
A team's hourly report job sometimes overruns its window, and a second run starts while the first is still working. Which concurrencyPolicy value makes the CronJob skip the new run instead?
Sample question 9 of 10
An ingress rule on a NetworkPolicy reads like this.
ingress: - from: - namespaceSelector: matchLabels: user: alice - podSelector: matchLabels: role: clientWhich sources does the rule allow?
Sample question 10 of 10
A container keeps exiting with an error and writes nothing to its termination message file. An engineer wants the tail of its log surfaced as the status message instead. Which terminationMessagePolicy value does that?
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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 Application Environment, Configuration and Security, Application Deployment, Application Design and Build, Services and Networking, Application Observability and Maintenance. 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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