A company wants to use Backstage Scaffolder to create new services, but they have a strict compliance requirement: every new service must be registered in the catalog with a specific set of metadata and must be approved by a security team before it goes live. They also want to allow developers to choose from multiple templates. What is the best way to enforce this?

Rely on developers to manually register and get approval.

Create a custom plugin that handles registration and approval.

Create templates that include catalog registration steps and integrate an approval step in the template.

Use the Software Catalog to enforce metadata and approval.

How does Backstage Search index and retrieve information?

By scanning the entire Backstage database on every search query to find matches.

By sending search queries to external search engines like Google or Bing.

By storing all content in a single file and using grep-like search.

By using a search index that is populated by collators from various plugins, and then querying that index.

What is the purpose of authorization in Backstage?

To verify the identity of users when they log in.

To provide a backup of user data in case of system failure.

To control which users or groups can access specific resources and perform certain actions.

To encrypt all data stored in the Backstage database.

What is the purpose of TechDocs in Backstage?

To provide a documentation platform that generates and serves technical documentation for software components.

To offer a wiki for team collaboration and note-taking.

To provide a search engine for all internal company documents.

To store API specifications and generate client libraries automatically.

How can Backstage be customized to fit an organization's needs?

By using configuration files and adding or developing plugins to extend functionality.

By using a different frontend framework instead of React.

By forking the Backstage repository and maintaining a separate version.

By editing the core Backstage source code to change the default behavior.

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Domain 2Objective 1

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Part of the Backstage Infrastructure 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 2–3 from this objective — we provide 37 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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A company wants to use Backstage Scaffolder to create new services, but they have a strict compliance requirement: every new service must be registered in the catalog with a specific set of metadata and must be approved by a security team before it goes live. They also want to allow developers to choose from multiple templates. What is the best way to enforce this?
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