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Platform Engineering Core Fundamentals Questions

Practice questions for Platform Engineering Core Fundamentals topic in Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate. 72 questions covering this domain.

72 questions18 easy36 medium18 hard
Q1
hard

A platform team wants developers to promote application versions from staging to production by merging a pull request that updates a manifest in Git, ...

Q2
medium

An engineering organization wants to reduce toil by automating repetitive operational tasks so developers can focus on building features. Which platfo...

Q3
medium

A platform team needs to ensure developers can provision isolated environments for integration testing without direct access to production resources. ...

Q4
easy

Which term describes the curated, recommended path that a platform team provides so developers can build and deploy applications with minimal friction...

Q5
medium

A development team wants to detect integration problems as early as possible by merging small code changes frequently and running automated tests on e...

Q6
medium

A platform team is reviewing CNCF guidance to assess whether to invest in a new platform capability. CNCF platform engineering guidance suggests measu...

Q7
medium

Which characteristic most clearly distinguishes an Internal Developer Platform from a simple set of shared CI/CD pipelines?

Q8
medium

A platform team needs to provide development teams with isolated Kubernetes environments for each pull request that are automatically created and dest...

Q9
medium

A platform team wants to store Kubernetes manifests in Git and have any changes automatically applied to the cluster without manual deployment command...

Q10
easy

A startup is building its first internal developer platform. Which approach is most aligned with CNCF platform engineering guidance for getting starte...

Q11
hard

A platform team at a large company notices different application teams use inconsistent toolchains for building, testing, and deploying software. They...

Q12
hard

A platform team uses Helm to deploy applications but notices developers are directly editing deployed resources with `kubectl edit`, causing drift fro...

Q13
easy

What is the primary goal of a platform engineering team according to CNCF guidance?

Q14
easy

According to CNCF platform engineering guidance, what is the primary risk when development teams do NOT have a golden path available?

Q15
easy

What does declarative resource management mean in the context of Kubernetes and platform engineering?

Q16
medium

A team's CI pipeline takes 45 minutes per run, causing developers to avoid frequent commits and reducing early feedback value. Which CI optimization s...

Q17
hard

A platform team using ArgoCD discovers a developer modified a ConfigMap directly in the cluster using `kubectl apply`. The ArgoCD application now show...

Q18
medium

A platform team is struggling with low adoption of their internal tools. The CNCF Platforms White Paper recommends treating the internal developer pla...

Q19
medium

A platform team asks: which category of metrics does the CNCF Platforms White Paper recommend for measuring whether the platform has improved develope...

Q20
easy

Which tool packages Kubernetes applications into versioned, reusable charts containing Go-templated resource definitions and configurable values files...

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