Free KCNA mock exams

KCNA is the most top-heavy paper in the catalogue: Kubernetes fundamentals alone accounts for a large share of the questions. That makes mock results unusually lopsided — a bad run in that one domain sinks the total regardless of how the other three went, and a good one can mask real gaps elsewhere. Always read the per-domain breakdown here, never just the score.

Despite the name, this is a knowledge exam rather than a practical one: you are asked what a component does and how the pieces relate, not to fix a cluster. Candidates who prepare with hands-on labs alone often find they can operate Kubernetes without being able to describe it in the terms the exam uses.

The pass mark sits at the strict end of the scale, so treat a marginal mock as a fail. The cloud-native architecture and delivery domains are small but self-contained, which makes them the fastest way to add margin before a retake.

The cloud-native domains reach well beyond Kubernetes itself into the surrounding project landscape, and candidates who prepare only on core Kubernetes meet them cold. They carry less weight individually, but together they are large enough to decide a marginal result — which, given where the pass mark sits, is the result most people get.

Because the fundamentals domain dominates, a mock total tells you very little on its own. Read the smaller domains first: if they are weak while fundamentals carries the score, you are looking at exactly the profile that passes a practice paper and fails the real one.