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Container Orchestration Questions

Practice questions for Container Orchestration topic in Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate. 16 questions covering this domain.

16 questions5 easy10 medium1 hard
Q1
medium

A frontend must keep reaching a backend even though backend Pods are created and destroyed over time. Which orchestration benefit is most directly add...

Q2
easy

A company has many application instances spread across machines, and individual instances can fail or move. Which problem does container orchestration...

Q3
medium

A DevOps engineer wants to deploy a containerized application and ensure that if the cluster has available capacity across multiple zones, replicas ar...

Q4
medium

A Kubernetes cluster runs hundreds of microservices. The platform team observes that Pods occasionally fail due to dependent services being unavailabl...

Q5
easy

A team scales a Deployment from 3 replicas to 5 without touching the Pod template. What should they expect?

Q6
medium

A Deployment is paused and then its image is updated in the Pod template. What happens next?

Q7
easy

A release engineer inspects a Deployment rollout and sees another object directly owning the current Pod set. Which object is it?

Q8
easy

A workload should scale on queue length rather than CPU or memory. Which tool is designed for that style of event-driven scaling?

Q9
medium

A cluster runs DaemonSets for monitoring agents and Deployments for application Pods. A node is cordoned (spec.unschedulable: true). Which workload is...

Q10
medium

A Job is configured with parallelism: 2 and completions: 4. Six Pods are created. Two Pods succeed, but four Pods fail immediately. What is the expect...

Q11
medium

A team mixes imperative edits and declarative configuration for the same Kubernetes object. What does the Kubernetes object management guidance say ab...

Q12
medium

A Job is configured with activeDeadlineSeconds: 300. If the Job runs for 300 seconds, what happens to the Job and its Pods?

Q13
medium

An operator deletes one Pod that belongs to a 4 replica Deployment. A minute later, there are again 4 Pods. Why?

Q14
easy

A team wants the platform to recreate failed Pods automatically until the declared number of replicas exists again. Which container orchestration capa...

Q15
hard

A StatefulSet uses the default OrderedReady pod management policy. During scale up, when can web-2 be created?

Q16
medium

A developer says Kubernetes is just a place to store container images. Which statement better reflects container orchestration?

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