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.
- 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 terminology
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.
- lessonDesired state, drift and the state store9 min
- lessonThe loop, the managed system and rollback9 min
02GitOps principles
The four OpenGitOps principles: declarative desired state, a versioned immutable store, agents that pull, and a loop that keeps running. Domain: GitOps Principles.
- lessonDeclarative desired state8 min
- lessonVersioned and immutable8 min
- lessonPulled automatically8 min
- lessonContinuously reconciled8 min
03Related practices
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.
- lessonConfiguration as code and infrastructure as code8 min
- lessonDevOps, DevSecOps, CI and CD9 min
04GitOps patterns
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.
- lessonPromotion and progressive delivery9 min
- lessonEvents, reconcilers and where state lives9 min
05Tooling
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.
- lessonManifests and state stores9 min
- 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.