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Argo CD Questions

Practice questions for Argo CD topic in Certified Argo Project Associate. 68 questions covering this domain.

68 questions17 easy34 medium17 hard
Q1
medium

A team deploys an application that includes a Custom Resource Definition (CRD) and CRD instances. They need Argo CD to ensure the CRD is fully install...

Q2
easy

When an Argo CD Application is created without specifying `spec.project`, which AppProject does it belong to by default?

Q3
medium

A platform team wants to bootstrap an entire cluster's application landscape declaratively so that syncing a single parent Argo CD Application creates...

Q4
medium

A platform team needs to prevent all Argo CD syncs (automated and manual) from occurring during a weekly maintenance window every Saturday from 1 AM t...

Q5
medium

An Argo CD Application has the finalizer `resources-finalizer.argocd.argoproj.io` set. What happens when a user runs `kubectl delete application my-ap...

Q6
medium

A GitOps team wants Argo CD to automatically apply changes to the cluster whenever a new commit is pushed to Git, and also automatically remove cluste...

Q7
medium

An operator needs to automatically deploy the same application configuration to 50 different clusters registered in Argo CD without manually authoring...

Q8
medium

A team needs a Kubernetes Job to run a database schema migration to completion before the new application version pods are started during an Argo CD s...

Q9
hard

An Argo CD Application has `spec.syncPolicy.automated.selfHeal: true` configured. A cluster engineer manually scales a managed Deployment from 3 repli...

Q10
medium

A team's AppProject must ensure that Applications within it can only pull manifests from their company's GitHub organization repositories and can only...

Q11
hard

An Argo CD Application continuously shows `OutOfSync` because a Kubernetes operator is constantly updating a `status` field on a managed CustomResourc...

Q12
medium

A team's Argo CD Application uses Kustomize and needs a specific version of Kustomize that differs from the default bundled version. How is this confi...

Q13
easy

Which Argo CD component runs the continuous reconciliation loop, comparing the live cluster state against the target state from Git and triggering syn...

Q14
easy

In Argo CD, what sync status value is displayed when the live state of an application in the cluster does not match the target state defined in the Gi...

Q15
easy

What does triggering a `Refresh` on an Argo CD Application do?

Q16
easy

After deploying a Helm chart application through Argo CD, a developer runs `helm ls` in the cluster namespace and does not see the release listed. Wha...

Q17
hard

A platform engineer wants Argo CD to use Kubernetes Server-Side Apply (SSA) when syncing resources to resolve field manager ownership conflicts with o...

Q18
easy

What is the purpose of the `PostSync` hook in Argo CD?

Q19
medium

Which Argo CD hook type runs when a sync operation fails, allowing cleanup or alerting actions to be performed?

Q20
medium

You want Argo CD to report an application as degraded when orphaned resources are detected in the target namespace. Which configuration enables this?

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