Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate
KCSA practice questions, dealt by the exam blueprint
Multiple choice, on paper, with no documentation at all. So this drills recognition until it holds, and a full mock of the paper — 60 questions in 90 minutes.
flashkube is a flashcard game for Kubernetes certification. Miss a card and it comes back sooner; answer it well and it rests. That is spaced repetition, and it is the whole engine.
$29once · yours to keep
$29, paid once. Sitting the exam costs $250 — 8 cartridges for the price of one attempt.
see what the cartridge costs — three islands of free water, from wherever you land either way.
KCSA · Platform Security · 16% of the exam
Supply-chain policy: this Deployment must reference bytes that can never change, even if tags in the registry are re-pushed. Which value completes the image line?
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: canyon-api
spec:
template:
spec:
containers:
- name: app
image: registry.example.com/canyon/api____
- A@sha256:<manifest hash>
- B:3.1.0
- C:stable
- D:latest
From today's KCSA hand · 10 cards, dealt by the blueprint
How many KCSA cards are there?
6 islands · 16 landings
229 cards written for KCSA, across 6 islands and 16 landings — counted from the cartridge itself, not written into this sentence. Cards are tagged per exam, so this is what a KCSA candidate actually gets, not the whole library.
What is on the KCSA exam, and how much of each?
official blueprint weights
- Overview of Cloud Native Security14%
- Kubernetes Cluster Component Security22%
- Kubernetes Security Fundamentals22%
- Kubernetes Threat Model16%
- Platform Security16%
- Compliance and Security Frameworks10%
Your daily hand is sampled against these weights, so the domain worth a quarter of the exam gets a quarter of your practice.
How does the KCSA exam run, and what does that change?
60 questions · 90 minutes
Multiple choice, on paper, with no documentation at all.
So the cartridge drills recognition and nothing else: no typing drills, no documentation practice, because the exam has neither.
No lab is needed for a written exam: the whole preparation is what you can recall on the day, and recall is exactly what this drills.
What comes after KCSA?
A finished KCSA route hands you to CKA, on the same cartridge. It also holds the skills shelf: the platform stack and the observability skill, built on a generic two-cluster production platform and graded at a terminal; and the K9s tender, a drill over a tool's own keys with no clock — for the job after the paper, and nothing bought separately.
What does KCSA prep on flashkube cost?
$29, paid once. Nothing renews and nothing lapses — and every card written after you buy is already yours. Three islands of free water, from wherever you land, and ten KCSA questions dealt by the blueprint free, with no account.
