Certification program · first level
Ænix Certification for Cozystack
A program for engineers who work with the platform: a course, labs, a first-level exam and a certificate you can show an employer.
Certification confirms that a person understands how Cozystack is built and how to work in it. The first level is called CCF — Fundamentals, the first level of the Ænix Certification for Cozystack program: it tests knowledge of the platform, not the ability to fix it at three in the morning. It is the entry point to the program, and more serious levels come after it.
Study materials
Seven lessons that follow the exam topics exactly, with diagrams, notes on what the questions cover, and links to the relevant documentation. One evening to read; printable as PDF.
Open the materialsPractice questions
Twenty questions from an open set, with an explanation for every answer. No sign-up, as many times as you like.
Try themCCF exam
The real exam: 60 questions, 90 minutes. You need access, which is issued per person.
Take the examLabs and workshop
Fifteen labs on moving off VMware: from your first cluster to your own application in the platform catalog.
Open the labs ↗No exam access? Message @tym83 on Telegram or Timur Tukaev on LinkedIn and we will send you an invitation link. We need your name in Latin script: it goes on the certificate. Managers enrolling a team can also contact us.
What to expect
We’ll lay it all out upfront, so you decide with your eyes open rather than find out halfway through.
| Preparation | about 30 hours for a course of eight modules. Labs are separate, roughly six or seven evenings |
| Exam | 60 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes |
| Exam language | English. If it is not your native language, ask for an extra 30 minutes — this is a standard request, not a favor |
| Price | free |
| Proctoring | none. This is an entry level, and it is honestly built as one |
| Result | “pass” or “fail” with an overall score. For each topic, how ready you are for it, so you know what to reread |
| Attempts | two, a week apart. If neither works out, a three-month pause, then two more |
| Certificate | valid for 24 months, renewed by passing the next level |
The program is currently in beta. The question bank is still growing, and the passing score will be refined based on data from real attempts. This does not affect how long your certificate is valid: one issued during the beta is valid for the same 24 months.
The labs are not part of the exam
The fifteen labs on migrating from VMware are a separate thing. The exam does not require them, and the reverse is also true: completed labs do not replace the exam.
They earn a badge, and it says exactly what it says: the person did the work hands-on. You assemble the results file on your own machine, and we cannot verify that — so the badge is not a certificate and does not pretend to be one.
The labs are worth doing before the exam: half the questions will become obvious, because you have already done these things.
I’m a VMware administrator and barely know Kubernetes
That’s a normal way into the program, and your route looks like this.
- A bridge from virtualization. How what you know about vSphere maps onto the platform: where the analogy holds and where it misleads.
- Kubernetes fundamentals. A separate module, about ten hours. Without it the rest will be hard going.
- Modules one through seven. Architecture, tenants, the managed applications catalog, virtualization, networking, observability.
- Labs. This is where everything you’ve read becomes hands-on for the first time.
- The exam.
If you don’t pass
The second attempt comes a week later. It is not a punishment and it costs nothing.
Between attempts you will see which topics you fell short on — not as scores, but in words: “below expected”, “at expected”, “above”. That is enough to work out which two modules to reread.
If the exam broke off through our fault — connectivity, a service error, anything on our side — the retake is free and does not use up an attempt. You don’t need to argue it out over email; the procedure is described in the rules.
What you need on your laptop
For the exam, just a browser.
For the labs: kubectl, kubelogin, git, and for some labs also docker and flux.
On Windows you need WSL: without it you can still do the labs, but the automated check will not run and the
results file will not be assembled.
The cluster for the labs is your own. If you don’t have one, write to us: we have a training environment, but it is limited, and tenants on it are handed out in turn.