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Security Questions

Practice questions for Security topic in Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate. 12 questions covering this domain.

12 questions3 easy6 medium3 hard
Q1
medium

A developer should be able to read Pods only within one namespace, not across the whole cluster. Which RBAC combination is the best fit?

Q2
medium

A security team wants to restrict which Pods may communicate with a payment service. Which Kubernetes feature is designed for this?

Q3
hard

A namespace enforces the Restricted Pod Security Standard. Which Pod setting would violate that policy for a Linux workload?

Q4
hard

A cluster adopts Pod Security Standards. An application Pod needs to mount the host network namespace for performance reasons. Under which Pod Securit...

Q5
easy

Which Kubernetes API resource defines a set of permissions (verbs on resources) that can be granted to users or service accounts within a namespace?

Q6
medium

A container in production is observed making outbound calls to unexpected external endpoints. The security team wants to prevent future containers in ...

Q7
hard

A team wants Pods to meet the Restricted Pod Security Standard. Which option matches that profile?

Q8
easy

A support engineer needs broad read only access but must not be able to read Secrets. Which default ClusterRole best matches that requirement?

Q9
medium

A RoleBinding in the dev namespace references a ClusterRole named edit. What scope does that grant?

Q10
easy

A namespace is enforcing the Baseline Pod Security Standard. Which Pod setting would violate that policy immediately?

Q11
medium

A Pod spec explicitly sets seccompProfile to Unconfined in a Baseline namespace. Which statement is correct?

Q12
medium

A vendor manifest requests a privileged container under Baseline enforcement. What is the expected outcome?

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