How to Pass the CAPA Exam

CAPA-specific tips and the most common pitfalls.

Duration

90 min

Pass mark

75%

Format

multi-choice

CAPA exam tips

Workflow template type questions often give a scenario ("you need parallel execution with dependency tracking") and ask which template type fits — DAG templates handle dependencies; steps templates are sequential.
Argo CD RBAC and AppProject questions test role configuration. Know that projects scope what repos, clusters, and namespaces an app can use.
For Argo Events, think of it as: EventSource (event ingestion) → EventBus (transport) → Sensor (trigger logic) → Action. This flow covers most questions.
AnalysisTemplate questions in Rollouts test which metric provider you'd use and how pass/fail conditions work.

Confusing Argo CD Application sync status vs health status — sync is "does Git match the cluster?"; health is "is the workload running?".
Underestimating Argo Events (12%) — it has a distinct architecture unlike the other Argo projects, so candidates who skip it lose easy marks.