The Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) certification validates foundational knowledge of Cilium, eBPF-based networking, network policy, service mesh, observability, and cluster mesh in Kubernetes environments.
pie title CCA Exam Domain Weights
"Architecture" : 20
"Network Policy" : 18
"Service Mesh" : 16
"Network Observability" : 10
"Installation and Configuration" : 10
"Cluster Mesh" : 10
"eBPF" : 10
"BGP and External Networking" : 6
Exam Tip
Architecture (20%) and Network Policy (18%) together account for 38% of the exam. Understand Cilium's architecture, IPAM, datapath models, and identity-based network security model. The exam covers 8 domains — the broadest of any associate cert.