Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate Questions and Answers
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Linux Foundation
CNPA
200 questions
6 topics
Updated May 2026Platform Engineering Core Fundamentals
72 questions18 easy36 medium18 hard~36% of exam
A platform team wants developers to promote application versions from staging to production by merging a pull request th...An engineering organization wants to reduce toil by automating repetitive operational tasks so developers can focus on b...A platform team needs to ensure developers can provision isolated environments for integration testing without direct ac...
Platform Observability, Security, and Conformance
40 questions10 easy21 medium9 hard~20% of exam
A CI pipeline pulls a base container image using the mutable `latest` tag. A known vulnerability was patched in a newer ...A microservices application experiences intermittent latency spikes. A platform engineer wants to identify which specifi...A platform team wants to ensure a compromised application Pod cannot read Secrets from other namespaces via the Kubernet...
Continuous Delivery and Platform Engineering
32 questions8 easy16 medium8 hard~16% of exam
A platform team is designing a CI pipeline for a monorepo containing 20 independent microservices. The current pipeline ...In a GitOps workflow, what serves as the single source of truth for the desired state of the system?During a production outage caused by a bad deployment, the on-call platform engineer needs to quickly roll back to the p...
Platform APIs and Provisioning Infrastructure
24 questions6 easy11 medium7 hard~12% of exam
What does the Kubernetes reconciliation loop continuously compare to determine what action to take?A platform team wants developers to request a new PostgreSQL database by applying a simple Kubernetes manifest without k...A platform team uses Crossplane to provision AWS infrastructure. A developer creates a Bucket composite resource but the...
IDPs and Developer Experience
16 questions4 easy8 medium4 hard~8% of exam
Which open-source project, originally created by Spotify and donated to the CNCF, is widely used as the foundation for b...A platform team evaluates whether to build a custom developer portal or adopt Backstage. Which statement accurately desc...A platform team wants to allow developers to create a new microservice complete with a Git repository, CI pipeline, Kube...
Measuring your Platform
16 questions6 easy8 medium2 hard~8% of exam
A platform team has a Deployment Frequency of multiple deployments per day but also a Change Failure Rate of 30%. What d...Which four metrics does DORA use to measure software delivery performance?A platform team wants to demonstrate that their new self-service tooling has reduced the time developers spend on infras...
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What does the Kubernetes reconciliation loop continuously compare to determine what action to take? | Platform APIs and Provisioning Infrastructure | easy |
| 2 | A CI pipeline pulls a base container image using the mutable `latest` tag. A known vulnerability was... | Platform Observability, Security, and Conformance | hard |
| 3 | A platform team is designing a CI pipeline for a monorepo containing 20 independent microservices. T... | Continuous Delivery and Platform Engineering | hard |
| 4 | A platform team wants developers to promote application versions from staging to production by mergi... | Platform Engineering Core Fundamentals | hard |
| 5 | A platform team wants developers to request a new PostgreSQL database by applying a simple Kubernete... | Platform APIs and Provisioning Infrastructure | medium |
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