CNCF-CGOA Exam Information and Outline
GitOps Certified Associate
Syllabus Update Checked on: October 30, 2026
CNCF-CGOA Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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- Exam Format
- 60 multiple-choice questions; 90 minutes; online proctored
- GitOps Terminology (20%)
- Continuous, declarative descriptions, desired and actual state
- State drift, reconciliation and state store
- Managed systems and feedback loop
- GitOps Principles (30%)
- Declarative
- Versioned and immutable
- Pulled automatically
- Continuously reconciled
- Related Practices (16%)
- Configuration as code and infrastructure as code
- DevOps, DevSecOps and CI/CD
- GitOps Patterns (20%)
- Deployment and release patterns
- Progressive delivery
- Pull vs. event-driven
- Architecture patterns: in-cluster and external reconcilers
- Tooling (14%)
- Manifest formats and packaging (Helm, Kustomize)
- State store management
- Reconciliation engines: Argo CD, Flux
- Interoperability with notifications, observability and CI