Platform APIs and Provisioning Infrastructure Questions
Practice questions for Platform APIs and Provisioning Infrastructure topic in Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate. 24 questions covering this domain.
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 knowing the underlying cloud pr...
A platform team uses Crossplane to provision AWS infrastructure. A developer creates a Bucket composite resource but the actual S3 bucket never appear...
A platform team wants to allow developers to provision cloud resources such as S3 buckets and RDS instances using Kubernetes-style manifests and RBAC ...
Which pattern does a Kubernetes Operator implement to manage complex stateful applications?
A platform team builds a Kubernetes Operator to manage a stateful distributed database. During testing the operator reconcile function is called repea...
What does a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD) enable in a cloud native platform?
A platform team wants to manage Kubernetes Operator installation, upgrades, and dependency resolution across clusters, ensuring operators are maintain...
A platform team is deciding between Terraform and Crossplane for provisioning cloud resources. A key requirement is that developers self-provision res...
Which CNCF project implements the Open Application Model and provides a higher-level application delivery abstraction on top of Kubernetes that allows...
A platform team needs to provide strong multi-tenancy for multiple business units on a shared Kubernetes cluster so that each business unit cannot acc...
A platform team builds a Kubernetes Operator that provisions a database cluster when a Database CRD instance is created. A developer creates a Databas...
A composite resource should automatically pick the production Composition when that Composition carries a specific label. Which Crossplane selection m...
Which CNCF project is described as implementing the Open Application Model to provide a higher-level application delivery abstraction on Kubernetes?
A Crossplane composition function adds a desired Deployment on the first run but fails to copy that desired resource into its next response. What will...
A new Crossplane API is intended for team-specific database claims inside namespaces. Which XRD scope does the official documentation recommend in mos...
A platform engineer defines two versions of a Crossplane XRD. Which condition must be true for a version to be used by Compositions as the referenceab...
A platform team wants Crossplane to compose CloudNativePG cluster resources, which are not provider managed resources or XRs. What extra RBAC step do ...
According to the Crossplane XRD docs, which scope should most XRDs use for better security isolation and standard Kubernetes patterns?
A Crossplane composition function created a composed resource on one run but omitted that resource from the desired state on the next run. What does C...
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