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Storage Questions

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

16 questions1 easy9 medium6 hard
Q1
medium

A cluster should automatically provision storage when a matching claim is created. Which resource defines the classes of storage available for that dy...

Q2
medium

A developer needs storage for a Pod and wants Kubernetes to find or provision matching storage on their behalf. Which resource should the developer cr...

Q3
easy

Which Kubernetes resource represents the actual provisioned storage in a cluster (an NFS mount, a cloud disk, etc.) that can be bound to a PersistentV...

Q4
hard

An operator notices that a PersistentVolumeClaim is stuck in Pending state after creation. The StorageClass exists and has a working provisioner. What...

Q5
medium

A team wants the underlying storage asset kept after a claim is released so an operator can clean it up manually later. Which reclaim policy fits?

Q6
hard

A database Pod must have exclusive cluster wide access to a volume so no second Pod anywhere can mount it at the same time. Which access mode best fit...

Q7
medium

A PersistentVolume uses the Delete reclaim policy and its claim is removed. What should the storage team expect next?

Q8
hard

Two Pods scheduled on the same node need to mount the same volume claim in read-write mode. The access mode is ReadWriteOnce. Which statement is corre...

Q9
medium

A PersistentVolumeClaim is created without specifying a storageClassName in a cluster with no default StorageClass. Later, an admin defines a default ...

Q10
medium

A team uses PersistentVolumeClaims with dataSourceRef to clone a volume from another namespace. Which prerequisites and mechanisms must be in place?

Q11
hard

A DynamicVolumeProvisioning workflow creates a PVC, which triggers a provisioner to create a PersistentVolume. The PV is successfully created and boun...

Q12
medium

A PersistentVolumeClaim has volumeMode: Block. A Pod mounts this PVC using a volumeMount. What is the result?

Q13
hard

An application mounts a Secret file using subPath and expects file changes to appear automatically after the Secret is updated. What actually happens?

Q14
medium

A team uses a StatefulSet with one volumeClaimTemplate. When the StatefulSet runs three replicas, what storage behavior should they expect?

Q15
medium

For a production StatefulSet that wants a volume writable by only one Pod cluster-wide, which access mode does the Kubernetes documentation recommend ...

Q16
hard

A StatefulSet Pod using a PVC is rescheduled after a node failure. What happens to the Pod's existing persistent volume?

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