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Hello all,
I cleared CKA exam today at the second time…
Let me share my comments as other guys did.
I took an first exam in Dec.26 and failed,it’s so close to 66% but failed.
The reasons I got failed on the first exam are
- failed to control my time per question accordingly,I spent too much time on one question
- I couldn’t even touch the 4questions due to lack of time.
- not familar with the environmental switching,ex: I answered at another cluster,back to correct context and repeat again.
- copy/paste indentation are not working correctly in the exam environment
(In my own environment, copy/paste indentation is always fine.) - confused to understand question correctly…
- not use alias enough.
- not structured bookmark.(time taken to get to the right page itself, it took around 4~5seconds,)
During the preparation on the 2nd exam,
I created my own environment on my labtop(64GB RAM),
I’ve done many practices again & again to reduce the time to solve
Like other guys said, practice,practice,practice is the best tip,
Using snapshot/recovery on vmware workstation was very helpful, I could repeat same question again&again until I got familar and enough.
practice&practice made it to shorten the time to solve the same question dramatically. (eg: netpol question on Mock or github was 25->20->15->8->4~6min)
Some tips I think it’s useful for exam are ;
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Absolutely, Mumshad Mannambeth’s CKA course - I listened more than 3times fully, further I selectively listen the chapter
again&again where I feel difficult until I fully understand.
Just before 2nd exam, I could feel comfortable at the whole chapter, including that “WAS” difficult to me. -
Mock exams and Lighting labs - I played with more than 5 times, so I could shorten the time more and more.
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Surely, it’s a must https://github.com/ahmetb/kubernetes-network-policy-recipes
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I’ve read all messages in this slack room, and reproduced it in my own environment, and tried to solve it.
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built my own environment to play with.
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contol time per question during the exam strategically.(At the beginning I focus on easy one with high score)
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used imperative command and alias as much as possible, surely this me save time.
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using alphabetical-order-bookmark was very efficient and get to the right page in seconds, and remove other non-critical bookmark to me,too many bookmarks can cause time-consuming to search page^^
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I used tmux as needed.(but it’s not must)
I’ve spent almost 12hours a day for a month as I’m on Sabbath month break for 2months. ^^
Specially I really appreciate Tej whenever answered my question and also members who answered my questions…
If there isn’t this channel,I couldn’t make it possible.
Thanks again, all~!! ^^