What is benefit of CKAD after CKA

dilshad ahmad:
<@UDQHGHJQ0> <@UGZ01D3MW> <@UK2LT2FN0> i have question and i m little confused …what is benefit of CKAD after CKA, i mean why would someone do CKAD if one has already CKA certification… pls help

Rahul Soni:
Hey <@ULKSH6A3G> CKAD is something more related application developers where you need to do some health check of application and its readiness.
CKA is more about administrators who manages the cluster as a whole. installing,upgrades, troubleshooting, managing, monitoring etc…

dilshad ahmad:
one should do both or CKA is enough ?

raghu:
Apart from technical expansion … to add one more feather in you cap and prove you are overall K8s champ…

Rahul Soni:
If you are more into admin then cka would be a great stuff, but once you are up with cka, ckad is not that challenging most of the topics are already covered in cka. So ckad is just an add on.

dilshad ahmad:
ok… thanks :slightly_smiling_face: