CNPA

Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate

Exam Description

The CNPA is designed for engineers and practitioners working with cloud native platforms.

It demonstrates knowledge of platform engineering fundamentals, including automation, observability, security, continuous delivery, developer experience, and infrastructure provisioning.

By earning this certification, candidates prove their ability to contribute to building and operating modern internal developer platforms (IDPs) and enabling efficient, secure, and scalable software delivery within cloud native organizations.

The certification is intended for platform engineers, SREs, DevOps professionals, infrastructure architects, and IT practitioners who want to validate their foundational platform engineering skills.

More information about the exam can be found on the Linux Foundation Training website.

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Domain Weighting

Platform Engineering Core Fundamentals 36%

Platform Observability, Security & Conformance 20%

Continuous Delivery & Platform Engineering 16%

Platform APIs & Provisioning Infrastructure 12%

IDPs & Developer Experience 8%

Measuring Your Platform 8%

Contributors (53)

Aman Pasi Andreas Grabner Andrew Ravn Ashutosh Upadhyay Atulpriya Sharma Balasundaram Natarajan Brian Cook Caio Medeiros Chris Plank Christopher Hanson Colin Griffin Eddie Wassef Faseela K George Bamfo Giorgi Keratishvili Giovanni Lo Vecchio Gopal Ramachandran Iliyan Petkov Imanol Valiente Martín Jamie Parker Jose Adan Ortiz Joshua Bezaleel Abednego Luca Galante Maciej Filocha Mahendran Selvakumar Manohar Pinnamshetty Matteo Bianchi Mauricio Salatino Max Körbächer Pedro Silva Praveen Kg Raghavendra Mallela Rahul Kumar Ramiro Alvarez Fernandez Roberth Strand Rohit Ghumare Rohit Mishra Ronald Petty Sai Linn Thu Saim Safdar Sangram Rath Santhosh Nc Santosh Kumar Perumal Sharkrit Impat Stefan Daugaard Poulsen Suryateja Ganta Thiago Finardi Turja Chaudhuri Vinod Sr Viswanathan Manoharan Vraj Bhatt Whitney Lee Łukasz Adamski