CKS Practice Exams

Take full-length practice tests with 180 unique exam questions to prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist certification. Each exam simulates real exam conditions.

Available Practice Exams

Practice Exam 1

60 questions•120 min

Comprehensive CKS exam covering cluster setup, hardening, system security, and runtime monitoring.

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Practice Exam 2

60 questions•120 min

Advanced exam with scenario-based questions on microservice vulnerabilities and supply chain security.

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Practice Exam 3

60 questions•120 min

Final practice exam focusing on runtime security, monitoring, and logging in Kubernetes.

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Exam History

About the CKS Exam Format

Questions: 15-20 performance-based tasks
Duration: 120 minutes
Passing score: 67%
Question types: Performance-based (hands-on security tasks in live clusters)
Cost: $395 USD (includes one free retake)

Exam Domains:

Cluster Setup (10%): Network policies, CIS benchmark, Ingress security
Cluster Hardening (15%): RBAC, service accounts, API server hardening
System Hardening (15%): AppArmor, seccomp, host security
Minimize Microservice Vulnerabilities (20%): Pod Security, OPA, mTLS
Supply Chain Security (20%): Image scanning, signing, SBOM
Monitoring, Logging and Runtime Security (20%): Falco, audit logs, runtime detection

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CKS Practice Exams

Take full-length practice tests with 180 unique exam questions to prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist certification. Each exam simulates real exam conditions.

Available Practice Exams

Practice Exam 1

60 questions•120 min

Comprehensive CKS exam covering cluster setup, hardening, system security, and runtime monitoring.

Progress0%

Practice Exam 2

60 questions•120 min

Advanced exam with scenario-based questions on microservice vulnerabilities and supply chain security.

Progress0%

Practice Exam 3

60 questions•120 min

Final practice exam focusing on runtime security, monitoring, and logging in Kubernetes.

Progress0%

Your Progress

Exam History

About the CKS Exam Format

Questions: 15-20 performance-based tasks
Duration: 120 minutes
Passing score: 67%
Question types: Performance-based (hands-on security tasks in live clusters)
Cost: $395 USD (includes one free retake)

Exam Domains:

Cluster Setup (10%): Network policies, CIS benchmark, Ingress security
Cluster Hardening (15%): RBAC, service accounts, API server hardening
System Hardening (15%): AppArmor, seccomp, host security
Minimize Microservice Vulnerabilities (20%): Pod Security, OPA, mTLS
Supply Chain Security (20%): Image scanning, signing, SBOM
Monitoring, Logging and Runtime Security (20%): Falco, audit logs, runtime detection