Key points

• Container images, manifests, resource requests, configuration, and probes contribute to a deployable application.
• Readiness controls whether a pod should receive service traffic.
• DVA-C02 does not require Kubernetes cluster, node, or networking administration.

Best-known use cases

• Deploy an approved containerized application to an existing Kubernetes environment.
• Apply application readiness and resource configuration.

What candidates often confuse it with

• EKS uses Kubernetes APIs; ECS uses AWS-native task and service APIs.
• Readiness indicates traffic eligibility; process liveness indicates whether the container should be restarted.

Key takeaway

Recognize EKS at application packaging, deployment, and readiness depth only.

Related services

• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Amazon CloudWatch

Relevant exam tasks

• D3.1 — Prepare application artifacts to be deployed to AWS
• 3.1.4 — Apply application requirements for resources (for example, memory, cores)
• D4.2 — Instrument code for observability
• 4.2.8 — Configure application health checks and readiness probes

Learn more

• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)