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Explain control plane, nodes, scheduling, deployments, services and health probes
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Kubernetes and AKS Assessment
Assess Kubernetes architecture, workloads, networking, storage, identity, security, observability and upgrade readiness.
Objective: Validate production-level Kubernetes reasoning rather than isolated command memorisation.
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Assessment scope and competencies
02
Describe ingress, DNS, network policy, RBAC, workload identity and secrets
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03
Compare autoscaling, persistent storage, disruption budgets and upgrade strategies
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Scenario and practical challenges
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Diagnose pending pods, image failures, readiness issues and broken service paths
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02
Design a secure multi-team AKS operating model
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03
Plan a controlled cluster upgrade with rollback safeguards
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Scoring and evidence standards
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Score command selection, evidence interpretation and dependency awareness
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02
Require a clear boundary between platform and application responsibilities
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03
Evaluate security, reliability and operability together
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Improvement and readiness plan
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Recommend labs based on failed troubleshooting stages
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02
Create a cluster-readiness checklist
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03
Repeat assessment with a time-boxed incident scenario
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