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65c2fbfd43 feat: Simulator Set C - 18-task mock modelled on a commercial CKA sitting
`./exam sim c` - 18 tasks, 163 points, 120 minutes, exam rules. Built after a
23% result on a paid mock, so reruns cost nothing and the weak topics can be
drilled as often as needed.

Original scenarios, not copies, exercising the same techniques as an 18-question
sitting: hostPath PV/PVC bound by volumeName, data migration between claims onto
a Retain volume, Helm render-then-install, Gateway API header canary, RBAC with
the answer written to a file, probe/selector/targetPort repair, HPA v2 behavior
blocks, and three "write the output to an exact path" data-extraction tasks.

Ids 401-418, set="c", difficulty="hard". cmd_sim is already generic over SETS so
no harness change was needed; set-tagged tasks stay out of POOL and cannot leak
into `./exam start` or drills. CKA bank goes 101 -> 119 tasks.

Two scenarios are deliberately adapted, because the originals would destroy the
practice cluster:

  - 410 audits the installed CNI and applies a default-deny, rather than
    installing Calico over the running kindnet. The Flannel-vs-Calico
    "does this CNI actually enforce NetworkPolicy" judgement is kept as a
    written answer.
  - 413 plans a control-plane upgrade - versions, ordered command sequence,
    `kubeadm upgrade node` for workers - and never runs `kubeadm upgrade apply`.
    The grader checks the ordering, modelled on Q316.

Verified end to end: every task seeded, solved with its own reference solution
and graded, 163/163 across all 18, in four batches. Checks were also confirmed
to fail cleanly against an unsolved cluster rather than erroring.

Three environment facts cost a round of debugging and are now encoded in the
tasks and their solutions:

  - The StorageClass on this kind cluster is named `standard`, not `local-path`,
    and is WaitForFirstConsumer - a PVC stays Pending until its pod can be
    scheduled, which is what interlocks the two faults in 414.
  - Under rootless podman the host cannot route to node IPs, so a host-side
    openssl against a NodePort just hangs (rc=124). 417 probes TLS from inside a
    node via nx against 127.0.0.1:<nodePort>. Nodes have openssl and curl but
    not nc or wget.
  - hostPath PV data must be seeded on every node (401, 405), since nothing
    pins the pod to the node holding the directory.

Seeding all 18 creates ~24 pods, which on this host needs
kernel.keys.maxkeys raised above the 200 default or container starts fail with
"unable to join session keyring: disk quota exceeded".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NziZdvBvy7CpEAAbZNgp8i
2026-09-18 09:05:20 -06:00