# CKA weak spots

_Generated by exam from 10 attempt(s); regenerated on every `end`._

## Domain scores (latest full exam, 2026-09-08T19:59, 14.3%)

- **ARCH** 12/26 — Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration (25%)
- **WORK** 1/16 — Workloads & Scheduling (15%)
- **NET** 0/17 — Services & Networking (20%)
- **STOR** 0/11 — Storage (10%)
- **TSHOOT** 2/35 — Troubleshooting (30%)

## Drill next  (`./exam drill weak`)

### Q02 · ARCH · etcd snapshot  (1/2 failed, last 0/7 pts, last failed 2026-09-19T12:27)
- ✗ /opt/cka/etcd-snapshot.db exists on the control-plane node
- ✗ snapshot is a real etcd backup (> 100 KB)

### Q06 · ARCH · Certificates: expiry check and user CSR  (2/3 failed, last 6/6 pts, last failed 2026-09-12T22:17)
- passed last time (6/6) - one more clean pass takes it off this list

### Q15 · STOR · PersistentVolume, claim and pod  (3/4 failed, last 6/6 pts, last failed 2026-09-15T20:55)
- passed last time (6/6) - one more clean pass takes it off this list

### Q16 · STOR · Default StorageClass and dynamic provisioning  (4/4 failed, last 0/5 pts, last failed 2026-09-16T19:40)
- ✗ StorageClass fast-local: local-path, WaitForFirstConsumer, Delete
- ✗ fast-local is default and standard is not
- ✗ fast-claim picked up fast-local and is Bound
- ✗ fast-pod Running with claim at /data

### Q17 · TSHOOT · Node NotReady  (3/4 failed, last 8/8 pts, last failed 2026-09-13T01:06)
- passed last time (8/8) - one more clean pass takes it off this list

### Q19 · TSHOOT · CrashLoopBackOff diagnosis  (4/5 failed, last 6/6 pts, last failed 2026-09-14T16:49)
- passed last time (6/6) - one more clean pass takes it off this list

### Q28 · WORK · Init container prepares content  (4/4 failed, last 0/4 pts, last failed 2026-09-16T19:40)
- ✗ pod Running, init container named setup completed
- ✗ emptyDir 'content' shared by both containers
- ✗ nginx serves the init-written content

### Q29 · WORK · Immutable ConfigMap rotation  (3/4 failed, last 4/4 pts, last failed 2026-09-15T20:55)
- passed last time (4/4) - one more clean pass takes it off this list

### Q30 · NET · Named ports  (2/3 failed, last 4/4 pts, last failed 2026-09-14T16:49)
- passed last time (4/4) - one more clean pass takes it off this list

### Q32 · WORK · ResourceQuota and LimitRange  (1/1 failed, last 0/4 pts, last failed 2026-09-19T12:27)
- ✗ ResourceQuota limits pods/6, requests.cpu 1, limits.memory 2Gi
- ✗ LimitRange defaults set
- ✗ worker pods Running with defaulted requests

### Q33 · ARCH · Aggregated ClusterRole  (2/3 failed, last 5/5 pts, last failed 2026-09-14T16:49)
- passed last time (5/5) - one more clean pass takes it off this list

### Q37 · TSHOOT · Cluster DNS is broken  (4/5 failed, last 6/6 pts, last failed 2026-09-14T16:49)
- passed last time (6/6) - one more clean pass takes it off this list

### Q38 · TSHOOT · Deployments never create pods  (2/3 failed, last 7/7 pts, last failed 2026-09-13T01:06)
- passed last time (7/7) - one more clean pass takes it off this list

### Q40 · ARCH · kubeadm join token  (4/4 failed, last 0/5 pts, last failed 2026-09-16T19:40)
- ✗ join.sh contains a kubeadm join with token and CA hash
- ✗ the token in the file exists in the cluster with TTL ~24h

### Q42 · NET · Egress-only NetworkPolicy  (2/3 failed, last 4/4 pts, last failed 2026-09-14T16:49)
- passed last time (4/4) - one more clean pass takes it off this list

### Q45 · ARCH · etcd restore  (1/1 failed, last 2/10 pts, last failed 2026-09-19T12:27)
- ✗ ConfigMap restore-proof-67 exists again with its original data
- ✗ etcd uses a restored data directory (manifest changed)

### Q49 · ARCH · CRD with validation and defaults  (4/4 failed, last 0/7 pts, last failed 2026-09-19T12:27)
- ✗ CRD exists, Namespaced, replicas has min/max and is required
- ✗ good created with environment prod
- ✗ replicas 0 is rejected and the message was saved
- ✗ defaulting works: defaulted.spec.environment == dev

### Q52 · WORK · Native sidecar with probes and an exact report  (1/1 failed, last 2/8 pts, last failed 2026-09-19T12:27)
- ✗ native sidecar: initContainer agent with restartPolicy Always
- ✗ probes on app as specified
- ✗ Running, shared log written by agent, grace period 5

### Q55 · NET · TLS Ingress with a generated certificate  (4/4 failed, last 0/7 pts, last failed 2026-09-19T12:27)
- ✗ Secret secure.lab.local-tls is kubernetes.io/tls with CN secure.lab.local
- ✗ Ingress web: class nginx, host, TLS secret, ssl-redirect annotation
- ✗ fp.txt matches the secret's certificate fingerprint

### Q58 · STOR · Bind the right local volume  (3/3 failed, last 1/6 pts, last failed 2026-09-15T20:55)
- ✗ PVC uses a selector and is Bound to lv-nvme
- ✗ consumer Running on the nvme node with /data mounted

### Q63 · TSHOOT · Cluster facts, exactly  (3/3 failed, last 0/5 pts, last failed 2026-09-15T20:55)
- ✗ pod-cidr and service-cidr
- ✗ dns-ip and proxy-mode
- ✗ cka-sim-worker3 pod CIDR

### Q64 · WORK · The context's namespace  (3/3 failed, last 1/6 pts, last failed 2026-09-15T20:55)
- ✗ Deployment ledger-21 in ac-echo (the context's namespace), 2 available, owner=ac
- ✗ Service ledger-21 port 9000 in the same namespace
- ✗ ns.txt has the namespace

## Attempt matrix

| Q | Domain | Title | D1 | E2 | D3 | D4 | D5 | D6 | D7 | D8 | D9 | D10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ARCH | RBAC for a deployment bot | 2/6 | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 2 | ARCH | etcd snapshot | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0/7 |
| 3 | ARCH | Kustomize overlay | · | 0/5 | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
| 4 | ARCH | CustomResourceDefinition | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ |
| 5 | ARCH | Static pod | 0/5 | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
| 6 | ARCH | Certificates: expiry check and user CSR | 0/6 | · | · | 3/6 | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
| 7 | WORK | Rolling update & scaling | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 8 | WORK | Multi-container pod with shared volume | · | 0/4 | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ |
| 9 | WORK | Scheduling with node affinity and resources | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ |
| 10 | WORK | ConfigMap and Secret consumption | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 11 | NET | NetworkPolicy | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 12 | NET | NodePort Service | · | 0/4 | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
| 13 | NET | Ingress routing | · | 0/5 | · | · | · | · | 0/5 | ✓ | · | ✓ |
| 14 | NET | Cluster DNS | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 15 | STOR | PersistentVolume, claim and pod | · | 0/6 | · | · | · | · | 0/6 | 0/6 | ✓ | · |
| 16 | STOR | Default StorageClass and dynamic provisioning | · | 0/5 | · | · | · | · | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | · |
| 17 | TSHOOT | Node NotReady | · | 0/8 | · | · | 4/8 | 4/8 | ✓ | · | · | · |
| 18 | TSHOOT | Broken deployment and service | · | 0/7 | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
| 19 | TSHOOT | CrashLoopBackOff diagnosis | · | 1/6 | · | · | 1/6 | 1/6 | 4/6 | ✓ | · | · |
| 20 | TSHOOT | Control plane component failure | · | 0/8 | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
| 21 | ARCH | Helm release install and upgrade | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 22 | NET | Gateway API HTTPRoute | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 23 | WORK | metrics-server repair and HPA | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 24 | WORK | PriorityClass | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 25 | WORK | Taints and tolerations | · | 0/4 | · | · | · | · | 0/4 | 0/4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 26 | WORK | DaemonSet on every node | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 27 | WORK | CronJob with a manual run | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 28 | WORK | Init container prepares content | · | 0/4 | · | · | · | · | 0/4 | 0/4 | 0/4 | · |
| 29 | WORK | Immutable ConfigMap rotation | · | 1/4 | · | · | · | · | 1/4 | 1/4 | ✓ | · |
| 30 | NET | Named ports | · | 0/4 | · | · | · | · | 0/4 | ✓ | · | · |
| 31 | WORK | Parallel Job | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 32 | WORK | ResourceQuota and LimitRange | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0/4 |
| 33 | ARCH | Aggregated ClusterRole | · | 1/5 | · | · | · | · | 1/5 | ✓ | · | · |
| 34 | ARCH | Discover a CRD field with kubectl explain | 0/4 | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ |
| 35 | STOR | Re-bind a Released PersistentVolume | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 36 | STOR | Data survives the pod | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 37 | TSHOOT | Cluster DNS is broken | · | 1/6 | · | · | 1/6 | 1/6 | 1/6 | ✓ | · | · |
| 38 | TSHOOT | Deployments never create pods | · | · | · | · | 0/7 | 0/7 | ✓ | · | · | · |
| 39 | TSHOOT | kubelet misconfiguration | · | · | · | · | 4/7 | 4/7 | 0/7 | ✓ | · | ✓ |
| 40 | ARCH | kubeadm join token | · | 0/5 | · | · | · | · | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | · |
| 41 | ARCH | Component versions | 0/4 | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 42 | NET | Egress-only NetworkPolicy | · | 0/4 | · | · | · | · | 0/4 | ✓ | · | · |
| 43 | NET | Headless and ExternalName services | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 44 | ARCH | Exact RBAC with an existing over-grant | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 45 | ARCH | etcd restore | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 2/10 |
| 46 | ARCH | Static pod on a relocated manifest path | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 47 | ARCH | User onboarding to a working kubeconfig | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 48 | ARCH | Kustomize with generators and patches | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 49 | ARCH | CRD with validation and defaults | · | · | 0/7 | · | · | · | 0/7 | 0/7 | · | 0/7 |
| 50 | WORK | Spread, tolerate, prioritise — under a quota | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 51 | WORK | Rollback to a specific revision, then pause | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 52 | WORK | Native sidecar with probes and an exact report | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 2/8 |
| 53 | WORK | Namespace audit to exact files | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 54 | NET | Zero-trust namespace | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 55 | NET | TLS Ingress with a generated certificate | · | · | 0/7 | · | · | · | 0/7 | 0/7 | · | 0/7 |
| 56 | NET | Gateway API canary with header match | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 57 | NET | DNS down: three faults | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 58 | STOR | Bind the right local volume | · | · | 1/6 | · | · | · | 1/6 | 1/6 | · | · |
| 59 | STOR | Migrate data between claims | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 60 | TSHOOT | Worker node: three things wrong | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 61 | TSHOOT | Two control-plane components down | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 62 | TSHOOT | Application down for four reasons | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 63 | TSHOOT | Cluster facts, exactly | · | · | 0/5 | · | · | · | 0/5 | 0/5 | · | · |
| 64 | WORK | The context's namespace | · | · | 1/6 | · | · | · | 1/6 | 1/6 | · | · |
| 65 | ARCH | Renew control-plane certificates | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 66 | TSHOOT | Nothing works: kube-apiserver itself is down | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 67 | ARCH | Prepare a node join without shell access to the control plane | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 68 | STOR | Provision geo-fence persistent storage | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 69 | ARCH | Render a chart, then install it | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 70 | TSHOOT | Fix the driver onboarding app | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 71 | NET | Expose and verify the dispatch API | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 72 | STOR | Migrate ride history to a Retain volume | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 73 | TSHOOT | Fix ETA service connectivity | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 74 | NET | Fleet dashboard canary with Gateway API | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 75 | ARCH | Cluster-wide read access for the auth team | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 76 | WORK | Add an init container to the trip logger | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 77 | NET | Audit the CNI, then lock a namespace down | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 78 | WORK | Priority for the rider support portal | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 79 | WORK | Surge pricing configuration | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 80 | ARCH | Plan the control-plane upgrade | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 81 | TSHOOT | Fix the fare calculation pods | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 82 | WORK | Autoscale the route planner on memory | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 83 | NET | NetworkPolicy for the safety monitor | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 84 | ARCH | Enforce TLS 1.3 on the booking portal | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 85 | TSHOOT | Investigate vehicle tracker health | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 86 | ARCH | How the control plane is run | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 87 | TSHOOT | Cluster facts to an exact file | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 88 | NET | Ready only when its dependency answers | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 89 | WORK | Sorting done by kubectl | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 90 | TSHOOT | Event forensics around kube-proxy | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 91 | ARCH | API resources and a Role census | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 92 | TSHOOT | Kubelet unit points at nothing | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 93 | WORK | Secrets as a read-only volume and renamed env vars | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 94 | ARCH | Static Pod on the control plane behind a Service | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 95 | ARCH | The kubelet's two certificates | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 96 | WORK | A Pod for the control plane only | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 97 | TSHOOT | Stop the scheduler, schedule by hand | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 98 | ARCH | Helm release housekeeping | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 99 | STOR | Per-replica storage for a StatefulSet | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 100 | NET | Namespace AND pod selector, enforced | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 101 | NET | Resolves everything except the cluster | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| 102 | STOR | A claim that can never bind | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |

_E = full exam, D = drill, · = not in that session, n/m = partial credit._