CNCF-CCA Exam Information and Outline
Cilium Certified Associate
Syllabus Update Checked on: October 30, 2026
CNCF-CCA Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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The information below reflects the 2026 syllabus defined by
CNCF.
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- Exam Format
- 60 multiple-choice questions; 90 minutes; online proctored
- Architecture (20%)
- Cilium components and eBPF datapath
- IPAM modes and routing
- Cilium Hubble architecture
- Network Policy (18%)
- Kubernetes and Cilium network policies
- Identity-based and L7 policies
- Policy enforcement modes
- Service Mesh (16%)
- Sidecarless service mesh
- Ingress, Gateway API and mTLS
- Network Observability (10%)
- Hubble UI and CLI
- Flow visibility and metrics
- Installation and Configuration (10%)
- Installing with Helm and cilium CLI
- Configuration options and upgrades
- Cluster Mesh (10%)
- Multi-cluster connectivity and service discovery
- eBPF (10%)
- eBPF fundamentals and Cilium use of eBPF
- BGP and External Networking (6%)
- BGP control plane, egress gateway and LoadBalancer IPAM