
Certified Backstage Associate (CBA)
Domain 3Objective 3
Using Annotations CBA Practice Questions (Page 1)
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 22 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 1–5
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Which value is appropriate for the `backstage.io/techdocs-ref` annotation?
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A platform engineer is troubleshooting why a catalog entity's TechDocs tab is empty. The entity has the annotation 'backstage.io/techdocs-ref: url:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/org/repo/main/docs'. The URL is accessible from the engineer's browser. What is the most likely reason the docs are not rendering?
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A team wants to use Backstage to manage documentation for multiple services. They have a monorepo with each service in a separate folder. Each service has its own 'docs/' directory. How should they configure the 'backstage.io/techdocs-ref' annotation for each service entity?
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Which annotation key is commonly used to link a catalog entity to its source code repository?
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A team uses Backstage to manage their microservices. They want the 'TechDocs' tab to show documentation for each service. They have a monorepo with the following structure: 'services/service-a/docs/' and 'services/service-b/docs/'. What should the 'backstage.io/techdocs-ref' annotation be for the 'service-a' entity?
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