CGOA Exam Information and Outline
Certified GitOps Associate
Syllabus Update Checked on: October 30, 2026
CGOA Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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official CGOA exam objectives. This course outline serves as your roadmap.
The information below reflects the 2026 syllabus defined by
Linux-Foundation.
Below are complete topics detail with latest syllabus and course outline, that will help you good knowledge about exam objectives and topics that you have to prepare. These contents are covered in questions and answers pool of exam.
- Exam Format
- 60 multiple-choice questions; 90 minutes
- GitOps Terminology (20%)
- Declarative, desired state, reconciliation, drift
- GitOps Principles (30%)
- Declarative, versioned and immutable, pulled automatically, continuously reconciled
- Related Practices (16%)
- Configuration as code, IaC, DevSecOps, CI/CD
- GitOps Patterns (20%)
- Deployment and release patterns, progressive delivery, architecture patterns
- Tooling (14%)
- Manifest formats, state stores, reconciliation engines (Argo CD, Flux)