In the Backstage Catalog, what does the 'lifecycle' field of an entity indicate?

The number of times the entity has been deployed

The date the entity was last updated

The maturity stage of the entity (e.g., experimental, production)

The team responsible for the entity

How can the Backstage Catalog assist a developer in finding the right software template for a new project?

By providing a direct link to external template marketplaces

By storing the source code of all templates in the catalog

By automatically generating a template based on the developer's role

By listing available templates as catalog entities that can be searched and browsed

A large enterprise has multiple teams using different source control systems (GitHub and GitLab). They want a single catalog that shows all services, their dependencies, and ownership. What is the best way to achieve this?

Migrate all repositories to GitHub and then register them in Backstage.

Use a custom script to export entities from GitLab and import them into GitHub as YAML files.

Configure Backstage to ingest catalog-info.yaml files from both GitHub and GitLab using multiple location processors.

Maintain two separate Backstage instances, one for each provider.

A developer wants to see which systems a particular component belongs to and which APIs it consumes. Where can they find this information in the catalog?

Check the component's README file.

Look at the component's YAML file in the repository.

Open the component's entity page and review the 'Relations' section.

Search for the component and read its tags.

How are relationships between catalog entities (e.g., a component depending on an API) represented in Backstage?

Through external graph databases only

Through manual annotations in the UI

Through code comments in the repository

Through relations defined in the entity metadata

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Domain 3Objective 1

Understand How/why to Use Backstage Catalog CBA Practice Questions (Page 4)

Part of the Backstage Catalog domain, which accounts for 22% of the CBA exam. Linux Foundation does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~8–13 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 32 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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16foundation · easy
In the Backstage Catalog, what does the 'lifecycle' field of an entity indicate?
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17foundation · easy
How can the Backstage Catalog assist a developer in finding the right software template for a new project?
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18expert · hard
A large enterprise has multiple teams using different source control systems (GitHub and GitLab). They want a single catalog that shows all services, their dependencies, and ownership. What is the best way to achieve this?
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19application · medium
A developer wants to see which systems a particular component belongs to and which APIs it consumes. Where can they find this information in the catalog?
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20foundation · easy
How are relationships between catalog entities (e.g., a component depending on an API) represented in Backstage?
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