In this post, I will share sample questions and answers

1. Kubernetes Architecture


Question: Which component of the Kubernetes Control Plane is responsible for monitoring newly created Pods and assigning them to an appropriate Node based on resource availability?



  • A) kube-controller-manager

  • B) kube-apiserver

  • C) kube-scheduler

  • D) kubelet


2. Cloud Native Ecosystem


Question: In the Cloud Native landscape, which CNCF project is widely adopted as a package manager for Kubernetes, allowing users to define, install, and upgrade complex applications?



  • A) ArgoCD

  • B) Helm

  • C) Harbor

  • D) Flux


3. Container Orchestration


Question: Which Kubernetes resource is best suited for running a persistent, stateful application (such as a database) that requires unique network identifiers and stable storage?



  • A) Deployment

  • B) ReplicaSet

  • C) StatefulSet

  • D) DaemonSet


4. Observability and Monitoring


Question: Which approach or component is used by Prometheus to collect telemetry metrics from targeted applications and services?



  • A) Push-based mechanism

  • B) Pull-based (scraping) mechanism

  • C) Event-driven webhooks

  • D) Distributed database replication


5. Cloud Native Security


Question: Which Kubernetes feature allows administrators to control and restrict the network traffic flow between specific Pods and network endpoints?



  • A) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

  • B) Network Policies

  • C) Service Mesh Mutual TLS (mTLS)

  • D) Pod Security Admission


6. GitOps and Continuous Delivery


Question: Which CNCF graduate project is an open-source declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool specifically built for Kubernetes applications?



  • A) Jenkins

  • B) Argo CD

  • C) Prometheus

  • D) OpenTelemetry


7. Cloud Native Storage


Question: Which Kubernetes volume type or component represents a piece of storage in the cluster that has been provisioned by an administrator or dynamically provisioned using Storage Classes?



  • A) PersistentVolume (PV)

  • B) PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC)

  • C) ConfigMap

  • D) Secret


8. Kubernetes Networking


Question: Which Kubernetes API object manages external access to the services in a cluster, typically providing HTTP and HTTPS routing, TLS termination, and name-based virtual hosting?



  • A) ClusterIP Service

  • B) NodePort Service

  • C) Ingress

  • D) CoreDNS


9. Service Mesh Concepts


Question: In a Cloud Native Service Mesh architecture (like Linkerd or Istio), what type of pattern is used to run proxies alongside the main application containers to manage network traffic?



  • A) Ambassador

  • B) Adapter

  • C) Sidecar

  • D) Init Container


10. Serverless Architecture


Question: Which CNCF incubating project is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless platform that allows developers to deploy functions based on events or HTTP triggers?



  • A) KEDA

  • B) Knative

  • C) Harbor

  • D) Rook