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Certified Backstage Associate (CBA)

CBA

The Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) certification validates your ability to build and manage standardized developer platforms with Backstage, the open-source internal developer portal. It is designed for developers, DevOps engineers, and platform engineers who want to accelerate onboarding, improve collaboration, and drive product innovation. Earning the CBA demonstrates the skills and mindset to advance your career, your team, and your organization.

Practice Free Questions

4Domains

19Objectives

105Practice pages

482Free questions

CBA free practice questions

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Build and run Backstage projects locally

27 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–27

Understand local development workflows

16 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–16

Compile a Backstage project with TypeScript

17 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–17

Download and install dependencies for a Backstage project with NPM/Yarn

29 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–29

Use Docker to build a container image of a Backstage project

24 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–24

Understand the Backstage framework

37 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–37

Configure Backstage

27 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–27

Deploy Backstage to production

39 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–39

Understand Backstage client-server architecture

24 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–24

Understand how/why to use Backstage Catalog

32 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–32

Populate Backstage Catalog

25 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25

Using annotations

22 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–22

Working with manually registered entity locations

17 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–17

Troubleshooting entity ingestion

27 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–27

Working with automated ingestion

28 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–28

Understand frontend versus backend plugins

17 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–17

Customizing Backstage plugins

32 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–32

Make changes to React code in Backstage App

23 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–23

Using Material UI components

19 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–19

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Certified Backstage Associate (CBA)

CBA free practice questions

Domain 1 · Backstage Development Workflow23% of practice bank · 5 objectives · 113 questions23%

Domain 2 · Backstage Infrastructure26% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 127 questions26%

Domain 3 · Backstage Catalog31% of practice bank · 6 objectives · 151 questions31%

Domain 4 · Customizing Backstage19% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 91 questions19%