Engy Fouda - A Complete Guide to Docker for Operations and Development: Test-Prep for the Docker Certified Associate (DCA) Exam

Engy Fouda

A Complete Guide to Docker for Operations and Development

Test-Prep for the Docker Certified Associate (DCA) Exam

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About the Author

Engy Fouda

is an adjunct lecturer at SUNY New Paltz teaching Intro to Data Science using SAS Studio and Introduction to Machine Learning using Python. She is an Apress and Packt Publishing author. Currently, she teaches SAS, Docker, and Kubernetes tracks at ONLC (Microsoft Partner) and other venues as a freelance instructor. She also works as a freelance editor at the Polaris&Dawn company. She holds two masters degrees: one in journalism from Harvard University, the Extension School and the other in computer engineering from Cairo University. Moreover, she earned a Data Science Graduate Professional Certificate from Harvard University, the Extension School. She volunteers as the executive manager and is a former team leader for Momken Group (Engineering for the Blind), Egypt Scholars Inc.

About the Technical Reviewer

Onur Yilmaz

is a senior software engineer at a multinational enterprise software company. He is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and works on Kubernetes and cloud management systems as a keen supporter of cutting-edge technologies. Furthermore, he is the author of multiple books on Kubernetes, Docker, serverless architectures, and cloud-native continuous integration and delivery. In addition, he has one masters and two bachelors degrees in the engineering field.

The books scope is to help you pass the Docker Certified Associate (DCA) exam. Earning the certificate is proof of your experience in working with containers; the Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) , formerly known as the Docker Enterprise Engine; swarms; clusters; and containerized applications.

Getting certified sets your minimum salary and helps you present yourself in the market. Moreover, plenty of corporations set being certified as a condition to get hired.

This prep book will cover all the topics that you will be tested on during the exam and more. You will learn how to install and use the Universal Control Plane (UCP) and the Docker Trusted Registry (DTR) . Moreover, it has plenty of real exam questions from previous exams to practice. This book will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and guide you on how to increase your knowledge in the weak topics.

The books primary targets are system administrators, operations managers, developers, and IT professionals who would seek to pass the DCA exam. The book assumes that you have some experience with Docker and Kubernetes and are looking to get certified.

However, the book is helpful for anyone looking for these topics in-depth and learning them. It provides detailed explanations of the concepts with hands-on examples in a step-by-step format.

The book is divided into two parts and follows the main outline of the exam sections. However, it covers even more than that. In Part 1, Chapters , you will find some extra chapters covering topics you will need in your practical workdays on which you will not be tested. Those chapters providing extra information will not have quizzes for them.

In Part 2, Chapters , you will find quizzes for the chapters that are included in the exam only.

Chapters have a sample of real exam questions.

You must pass every section of the exam and get more than 50% in the total. If you failed any section, you would fail the whole test.