Resources Allowed: All LF Certification Programs

Candidates are NOT PERMITTED to access tools, resources or external sites when taking the Linux Foundation Multiple Choice OR SkillCred Exams.

Click on your exam title to see the specific resources allowed during your exam

• Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS )

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

• Istio Certified Associate (ICA)

• OpenJS Node.js Application Developer (JSNAD)

• OpenJS Node.js Services Developer (JSNSD)

Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)

The following tools and resources are allowed during the Exam as long as they are used by Candidate to work independently on exam tasks (i.e. not used for 3rd party assistance or research) and are accessed from within the Linux server terminal on which the Exam is delivered (resources that cannot be accessed from within the terminal are not allowed):

• Man pages

• Documents installed by the distribution (i.e. /usr/share and its subdirectories)

• Packages that are part of the distribution (may also be installed by Candidate if not available by default) If you decide to install packages (not required to complete tasks) to your exam environment, you will want to be familiar with standard package managers (apt, dpkg, dnf, and yum).

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) & Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

The following tools and resources are allowed during the exam as long as they are used by candidates to work independently on exam tasks (i.e. not used for 3rd party assistance or research) and are accessed from within the Linux server terminal on which the Exam is delivered.

During the exam, candidates may:

• review the Exam content instructions that are presented in the command line terminal.

• review Documents installed by the distribution (i.e. /usr/share and its subdirectories)

• use Packages that are part of the distribution (may also be installed by Candidate if not available by default)

• use the documentation links provided in the exam item’s “Quick Reference Box”

• use the browser within the VM to access the following documentation:

  • Kubernetes

    • Documentation https://kubernetes.io/docs This includes all available language translations of these pages (e.g. https://kubernetes.io/zh/docs)
    • Blog https://kubernetes.io/blog/ .
  • Tools

    • Helm documentation https://helm.sh/docs
  • CKA only: Gateway API

    • Documentation https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/
• use the search function provided on https://kubernetes.io/docs/ however, they may only open search results that have a domain matching the sites listed above

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

The following tools and resources are allowed during the exam as long as they are used by candidates to work independently on exam tasks (i.e. not used for 3rd party assistance or research) and are accessed from within the Linux server terminal on which the Exam is delivered.

During the exam, candidates may:

• review the Exam content instructions that are presented in the command line terminal.

• review Documents installed by the distribution (i.e. /usr/share and its subdirectories)

• use Packages that are part of the distribution (may also be installed by Candidate if not available by default)

• use the documentation links provided in the exam item’s “Quick Reference Box”

• use the search function provided on https://kubernetes.io/docs/ however, they may only open search results that have a domain matching the sites listed below
• use the browser within the VM to access the following documentation:

  • Kubernetes Documentation:

    • https://kubernetes.io/docs/
    • https://kubernetes.io/blog/

    This includes all available language translations (e.g. https://kubernetes.io/zh/docs/)
  • Tools:

    • Falco documentation https://falco.org/docs/
    • Bom documentation https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/bom/cli-reference/
    • etcd documentation https://etcd.io/docs/

    This includes all available language translations (e.g. https://falco.org/zh/docs/)
  • NGINX Ingress Controller

    • Documentation https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/user-guide/nginx-configuration/
  • Cilium: Documentation https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable
  • Istio: Documentation https://istio.io/latest/docs/

Istio Certified Associate (ICA)

The following tools and resources are allowed during the exam as long as they are used by candidates to work independently on exam tasks (i.e. not used for 3rd party assistance or research) and are accessed from within the Linux server terminal on which the Exam is delivered.

During the exam, candidates may:

• review the Exam content instructions that are presented in the command line terminal.

• review Documents installed by the distribution (i.e. /usr/share and its subdirectories)

• use Packages that are part of the distribution (may also be installed by Candidate if not available by default)

• use the browser within the VM to access the following documentation: https://istio.io/latest/docs/ and https://kubernetes.io/docs.
• use the search function provided on https://istio.io/latest/docs/ and https://kubernetes.io/docs however, they may only open search results that have a domain matching the sites listed above

OpenJS Node.js Application Developer (JSNAD) & OpenJS Node.js Services Developer (JSNSD)

During the exam, Candidates may only use the browser within the VM to access the following documentation:

Node.js, JavaScript, and packages

• Node.js
• JavaScript (MDN)
• NPM
• Axios

OpenJS Foundation projects

• ESLint
• Esprima
• Express
• Fastify
• Grunt
• Lodash
• Marko
• Mocha
• Moment
• QUnit
• RequireJS
• Webpack

Other frameworks and libraries

• Jest
• Tap
• Koa
• Hapi
• Joi

The allowed sites above may contain links that point to other external sites. Candidates will be prohibited from accessing these sites.

If you have a suggestion for additional library or framework sites, to be considered as Allowed Resource for the JSNAD or JSNSD Exam, please Submit This Form. Requests will be periodically reviewed by the Linux and OpenJS Foundation Certification Team.