What is the primary role of kube-proxy in a Kubernetes cluster?

To manage the lifecycle of pods and ensure the desired number of replicas

To implement service networking by maintaining network rules that route traffic to backend pods

To provide DNS-based service discovery for pods and services

To encrypt all traffic between pods and services using TLS

What is a recommended hardening practice for the kube-proxy metrics endpoint?

Expose it on a public IP for monitoring tools

Bind it to localhost or a restricted network and require authentication

Set the metrics port to 0 to disable it entirely

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA)

Domain 2Objective 6

KubeProxy KCSA Practice Questions (Page 4)

Part of the Kubernetes Cluster Component Security domain, which accounts for 22% of the KCSA 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 17 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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KubeProxy KCSA Practice Questions (Page 4)

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What is the primary role of kube-proxy in a Kubernetes cluster?

What is a recommended hardening practice for the kube-proxy metrics endpoint?

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