Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
Domain 4Objective 1
Cloud Native Ecosystem and Principles KCNA Practice Questions (Page 6)
Part of the Cloud Native Architecture domain, which accounts for 12% of the KCNA exam. Linux Foundation does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~4–7 in this domain), expect 2–4 from this objective — we provide 29 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 26–29
- 26
A platform team is designing a microservices architecture. They need to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) between services, provide fine-grained traffic routing, and collect telemetry for all inter-service communication. They want to avoid adding this logic to each application. Which CNCF project category should they adopt?
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What is the primary role of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in the cloud native ecosystem?
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A retail company currently runs a monolithic application on a set of virtual machines in a private data center. They want to adopt cloud native practices to improve deployment frequency and fault isolation. The team has decided to containerize the application and adopt Kubernetes. Which additional change best aligns with the CNCF's definition of cloud native computing?
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A developer wants to package their application and its dependencies into a portable unit that can run consistently across different environments. Which cloud native technology should they use?
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