CNPA Practice Exam Questions and Answers

A.  

Implementing a modular architecture with well-defined APIs and interfaces that allows platform capabilities to be independently added, updated, or removed without disrupting the entire system.

B.  

Creating a platform with a flexible governance model that requires all capability changes to be reviewed by specialized teams before being approved, ensuring consistent implementation across all platform areas.

C.  

Building a monolithic platform with comprehensive documentation that provides complete instructions for users to modify internal components when new capabilities need to be added or removed.

D.  

Designing a platform with centralized configuration management that can quickly implement organization-wide changes through a single control plane operated by platform specialists.

A.  

OpenTelemetry is primarily used for logging data only.

B.  

OpenTelemetry is a proprietary solution that limits its use to specific cloud providers.

C.  

OpenTelemetry provides a standardized way to collect and transmit observability data.

D.  

OpenTelemetry is solely focused on infrastructure monitoring.

A.  

By using CI/CD pipelines to execute imperative scripts that create cloud infrastructure outside of Kubernetes in any cloud provider

B.  

By defining infrastructure resources declaratively in Git, where Crossplane controllers reconcile and provision them automatically in target environments.

C.  

By provisioning infrastructure manually in cloud provider consoles and documenting the steps in Git for future reference.

D.  

By manually applying Crossplane manifests to each cluster using kubectl to provision resources as needed for the infrastructure.

A.  

Manual infrastructure deployment services.

B.  

A comprehensive platform knowledge center.

C.  

Centralized logging and monitoring interfaces.

D.  

Self-service resource provisioning APIs.

A.  

By storing it in Git, and manually pushing updates through CI/CD pipelines.

B.  

As custom Kubernetes resources, stored and applied directly to the system.

C.  

By using a centralized management tool to push changes immediately to all environments.

D.  

By storing it so it is versioned and immutable, and pulled automatically into the system.

A.  

To focus exclusively on infrastructure automation without considering developer needs

B.  

To limit developer access to infrastructure to enhance security and compliance.

C.  

To replace all DevOps practices with automated tools and well-defined processes.

D.  

To create reusable, scalable platforms that improve developer productivity and experience.

A.  

Mandating that all teams must use the platform without exceptions

B.  

Keeping platform development separate from application teams.

C.  

Prioritizing platform security over usability.

D.  

Encouraging platform feedback loops from developers to improve usability.

A.  

Use a blue/green deployment to direct internal users to one version and switch as needed.

B.  

Use feature flags to release the feature to selected users and control its availability through settings.

C.  

Use a canary deployment to gradually expose the feature to a small group of random users.

D.  

Deploy the feature to all users and prepare to roll it back manually if an issue is detected.

A.  

Logs

B.  

Alerts

C.  

Traces

D.  

Metrics

A.  

A manual request process for acquiring additional storage resources.

B.  

An internal wiki for documenting best practices in cloud usage.

C.  

An automated resource provisioning system to spin up environments on demand.

D.  

A centralized dashboard for monitoring application performance.