How to Pass the CCA Exam

CCA-specific tips and the most common pitfalls.

Duration

90 min

Pass mark

75%

Format

multi-choice

CCA exam tips

Questions often ask you to choose the right Cilium feature for a given networking problem — know which feature addresses which layer (L3, L4, L7, service mesh).
Know the difference between CiliumNetworkPolicy and CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicy scope.
eBPF questions are conceptual, not implementation-level. Know what programs, maps, and hooks are without needing to write eBPF code.
For Cluster Mesh questions, understand global service semantics and when you'd use affinity vs load-balancing.

Treating Cilium Network Policy the same as Kubernetes Network Policy — they have overlapping but distinct capabilities, especially at L7.
Skipping BGP/external networking (6%) — it's small but questions appear, and the answers are specific to Cilium's BGP implementation.