Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist Exam Preparation Guide
This guide is intended to be a point of knowledge for everyone who wants to pass Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) Exam. The main idea is to provide links to every topic in each domain. Preference will always be the official documentation but feel free to add other useful links.
A Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist is an accomplished Kubernetes practitioner (as evidenced by holding the CKA credential) who has demonstrated competence on a broad range of best practices for securing container-based applications and Kubernetes platforms during build, deployment and runtime.
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) candidates must have taken and passed the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam prior to attempting the CKS exam. The CKS may be scheduled but not taken until CKA certification has been achieved.
This exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes. Candidates have 2 hours to complete the tasks.
The exam is based on Kubernetes v1.20
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) candidates must have taken and passed the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam prior to attempting the CKS exam. The CKS may be scheduled but not taken until CKA certification has been achieved.