Resources Allowed: All LF Certification Programs
Click on your exam title to see the specific resources allowed during your exam:
Candidates are NOT PERMITTED to access tools, resources or external sites when taking the Linux Foundation Multiple Choice OR SkillCred Exams.
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:
Use the browser within the VM to access the following documentation:
Kubernetes Documentation https://kubernetes.io/docs
Note that using the search function on https://kubernetes.io/docs/ is allowed, but you must not open external search results.
Kubernetes Blog https://kubernetes.io/blog/
Helm Documentation https://helm.sh/docs
Task-specific documentation provided in the Quick Reference box. This may include links to the official Kubernetes documentation or other resources that might be needed to solve a task
CKA only: Gateway API Documentation https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io This includes all available language translations (e.g. https://kubernetes.io/zh/docs/)
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)
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:
Use the browser within the VM to access the following documentation:
Kubernetes Documentation: https://kubernetes.io/docs/
Note that using the search function on https://kubernetes.io/docs/ is allowed, but you must not open external search results.
Kubernetes Blog: https://kubernetes.io/blog/
Falco documentation https://falco.org/docs/
Bom documentation https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/bom/cli-reference/
etcd documentation https://etcd.io/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/
Task-specific documentation provided in the Quick Reference box. This may include links to the official Kubernetes documentation or other resources that might be needed to solve a task This includes all available language translations (e.g. https://kubernetes.io/zh/docs/)
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)
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:
Use the browser within the VM to access the following documentation:
Istio Documentation https://istio.io/docs/ Note that using the search function https://istio.io/search/ is allowed, but you must not open external search results.
Istio Blog https://istio.io/blog/
Kubernetes Documentation: https://kubernetes.io/docs/
Note that using the search function on https://kubernetes.io/docs/ is allowed, but you must not open external search results.
Task-specific documentation provided in the Quick Reference box. This may include links to the official Kubernetes documentation or other resources that might be needed to solve a task This includes all available language translations (e.g. https://kubernetes.io/zh/docs/)
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)
Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer (CNPE)
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:
Use the browser within the VM to access the following:
Kubernetes Documentation https://kubernetes.io/docs Note that using the search function on https://kubernetes.io/docs/ is allowed, but you must not open external search results.
Kubernetes Blog https://kubernetes.io/blog/
Task-specific documentation provided in the Quick Reference box. This may include links to the official Kubernetes documentation or other resources that might be needed to solve a task This includes all available language translations (e.g. https://kubernetes.io/zh/docs/)
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)
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