What is the primary purpose of traffic routing rules in a service mesh?

To define how requests are directed to different service versions or instances

To store configuration data for services

To encrypt all traffic between services

To monitor the health of service instances

Which security feature does a service mesh use to encrypt and authenticate traffic between services?

Role-based access control (RBAC)

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA)

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Service Mesh KCSA Practice Questions (Page 6)

Part of the Platform Security domain, which accounts for 16% of the KCSA exam. Linux Foundation does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~6–10 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 27 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Service Mesh KCSA Practice Questions (Page 6)

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What is the primary purpose of traffic routing rules in a service mesh?

Which security feature does a service mesh use to encrypt and authenticate traffic between services?

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