Course and practice questions

CGOA course and practice questions

Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA). 5 modules and 12 lessons, plus 30 original practice questions in 5 quizzes. This course is lessons and practice questions. There are no hands-on cluster labs.

  • Intermediate
  • 1.5 hours
  • Pass mark 75%
  • 90-minute exam
Modules
5
Lessons
12
Quizzes
5
Questions
30

Lessons and original practice questions. No hands-on cluster labs in this course.

The exam

CGOA at a glance

  • Exam formatMultiple choice
  • Exam length90 minutes
  • Pass mark75%
  • NoteA course and original practice questions. GitOps state lives outside the cluster.
  • This course12 lessons and 30 practice questions. No cluster labs.

Exam domains

5 domains, weighted like the exam

Exam domains from the public curriculum. Practice for this course is the module quizzes. There are no hands-on cluster labs.

  • GitOps Principles

    30%of the exam

    4 competencies

  • GitOps Terminology

    20%of the exam

    9 competencies

  • GitOps Patterns

    20%of the exam

    4 competencies

  • Related Practices

    16%of the exam

    4 competencies

  • Tooling

    14%of the exam

    4 competencies

Weights come from this catalog. The public exam page is the source for the exam itself: CGOA on training.linuxfoundation.org.

What's included

Lessons and practice questions

  • 12 lessons

    Lessons mapped to the public exam domains.

  • 5 module quizzes

    30 original practice questions, with an explanation for every answer.

  • No cluster labs

    This course is lessons and original practice questions. There are no hands-on cluster labs.

Curriculum

5 modules

12 lessons: 1 h 44 min of reading, about 1.5 hours with the linked practice.

01GitOps terminology2 lessons · 6 questions

The words the OpenGitOps principles rely on: desired state, drift, the state store, the feedback loop, and what a rollback actually changes. Domain: GitOps Terminology.

  1. lessonDesired state, drift and the state store9 min
  2. lessonThe loop, the managed system and rollback9 min
02GitOps principles4 lessons · 6 questions

The four OpenGitOps principles: declarative desired state, a versioned immutable store, agents that pull, and a loop that keeps running. Domain: GitOps Principles.

  1. lessonDeclarative desired state8 min
  2. lessonVersioned and immutable8 min
  3. lessonPulled automatically8 min
  4. lessonContinuously reconciled8 min
03Related practices2 lessons · 6 questions

How configuration as code, infrastructure as code, DevOps, and CI/CD sit next to GitOps, and which parts they do not replace. Domain: Related Practices.

  1. lessonConfiguration as code and infrastructure as code8 min
  2. lessonDevOps, DevSecOps, CI and CD9 min
04GitOps patterns2 lessons · 6 questions

How environments are promoted, how progressive delivery fits a reconciler, when a webhook is still pull, and where the agent and the store live. Domain: GitOps Patterns.

  1. lessonPromotion and progressive delivery9 min
  2. lessonEvents, reconcilers and where state lives9 min
05Tooling2 lessons · 6 questions

Manifest packaging, which systems can be a state store, what Argo CD and Flux actually reconcile, and how CI, alerts and metrics attach without taking over the apply. Domain: Tooling.

  1. lessonManifests and state stores9 min
  2. lessonReconcilers and the tools around them10 min

Start with a free account

A free account includes 5 starter CKA labs, one in each CKA exam domain. The CGOA course is lessons and practice questions, with no cluster labs.