Two kinds of numbers describe a cluster's resources, and the CKA tests whether you know which is which. Actual usage, how much CPU and memory containers are consuming right now, comes from metrics-server and is shown by kubectl top. Reservations, how much has been requested and limited, come from Pod specs and are shown by kubectl describe node.
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