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| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Network Policy | 18% | - Identity-Based Network Security - Policy Rules and Enforcement |
| Topic 2: BGP and External Networking | 6% | - Egress Connectivity - Connecting Cilium Clusters to External Networks |
| Topic 3: Architecture | 20% | - Cilium Architecture and Components - IP Address Management and Datapath Models |
| Topic 4: eBPF | 10% | - eBPF and iptables-Based Networking - eBPF Role and Benefits |
| Topic 5: Cluster Mesh | 10% | - Multi-Cluster Connectivity - Service Discovery and Load Balancing |
| Topic 6: Installation and Configuration | 10% | - Installation and Connectivity Testing - Cilium CLI and Configuration |
| Topic 7: Network Observability | 10% | - Hubble and Layer 7 Visibility - Hubble CLI and UI |
| Topic 8: Service Mesh | 16% | - Ingress and Gateway API - Traffic Encryption and Service Mesh Architectures |
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NEW QUESTION # 10
In which use case can the Cilium Service Mesh exclusively utilize eBPF without requiring a proxy such as Envoy?
Answer: B
Explanation:
Technical explanation
Cilium can implement Layer 3 and Layer 4 forwarding exclusively through its eBPF datapath. IP, TCP, and UDP traffic can be routed, load-balanced, filtered, and redirected through eBPF programs attached to Linux networking hooks. These operations depend on network-layer addresses, protocols, ports, identities, and connection state; they do not require application-protocol parsing by a userspace proxy.
Application-layer operations are different. Cilium's official Service Mesh architecture uses a proxy such as Envoy to parse HTTP, gRPC, and DNS when Layer 7 policy, observability, or traffic management requires understanding individual requests. The eBPF datapath transparently redirects selected traffic to the node-local proxy and retains identity context, while Envoy performs the protocol-aware operation.
Kafka parsing is also an application-layer activity rather than ordinary Layer 3 or Layer 4 forwarding.
Moreover, current Cilium releases removed the former Envoy Go extension mechanism used for Kafka and generic proxylib rules, further reinforcing that it is not an eBPF-only forwarding case.
Therefore, D accurately identifies the scenario in which the Service Mesh datapath can remain entirely in the kernel without requiring Envoy.
Official references
Cilium Service Mesh ; eBPF Datapath Introduction .
Study Guide topic: Service Mesh.
NEW QUESTION # 11
Which component, when available, is able to handle IPAM requests?
Answer: C
Explanation:
Technical explanation
The Cilium Operator handles IP address management responsibilities in IPAM modes that require cluster- wide or cloud-integrated allocation. Current documentation identifies the operator as responsible for IPAM in Azure IPAM, AWS ENI, and cluster-scope mode. Cloud-specific operators populate the appropriate allocation information in CiliumNode resources, after which node-local agents allocate addresses to endpoints from the available ranges.
The phrase "when available" is important because responsibilities vary by IPAM mode. Under Kubernetes host-scope IPAM, Kubernetes allocates each node's PodCIDR, and the Cilium agent consumes that range from the Kubernetes Node object. Nevertheless, among the supplied components, the operator is the component specifically associated with centralized IPAM requests and allocation management.
The Cilium agent implements each node's datapath and endpoint lifecycle but is not the general cluster-wide IPAM answer intended here. Cilium API Server is not the documented allocation component. The misspelled Cilium CNIPIugin refers to the CNI plugin, which requests networking setup when a pod is created but does not replace the operator's IPAM responsibilities.
Official references
Cilium Operator , Cilium IP Address Management
Study Guide topic: Cilium Operator responsibilities and IPAM modes.
NEW QUESTION # 12
Which one of the following statements accurately describes the identity-based network security model used by Cilium?
Answer: A
Explanation:
Technical explanation
Cilium derives an endpoint's security identity from its security-relevant labels rather than from its current IP address. When multiple endpoints possess the same relevant label set, they receive and share the same numeric security identity. This enables policies to follow an application as pods are recreated, rescheduled, or scaled across nodes.
In Kubernetes, the Cilium agent obtains workload metadata through the Kubernetes API and associates the pod's labels with the corresponding Cilium endpoint. Identity allocation converts the relevant label set into a cluster-wide identity. Policy enforcement then matches that identity in the eBPF datapath instead of depending exclusively on short-lived pod addresses.
Option A incorrectly makes the IP address the source of identity and says that identities cannot be shared.
Option B incorrectly identifies annotations as the identity foundation. Annotations may configure behavior, but Cilium's security model is label-based. Option D is also incorrect because operators do not ordinarily assign each pod's numeric security identity manually. Identity allocation and lifecycle management are automatic.
Official references
Cilium Terminology and Identities , Limiting Identity-Relevant Labels
Study Guide topic: Label-derived identities and identity-based policy enforcement.
NEW QUESTION # 13
Which Cilium configuration is recommended to help identify the correct configuration of network policies without interrupting workload communications?
Answer: B
Explanation:
Technical explanation
Policy Audit Mode allows administrators to evaluate the consequences of network policies before enforcing their deny decisions. Traffic that would ordinarily be rejected remains permitted, while Cilium records an audit verdict. These verdicts can be examined with Cilium monitoring tools and used to identify legitimate communications that are missing from the proposed policies.
This is especially valuable when introducing host policies or default-deny controls into an existing environment. An incomplete policy might otherwise block access to the Kubernetes API, node-management interfaces, DNS, monitoring systems, or other operational dependencies. The recommended workflow is to enable audit mode, observe traffic and policy verdicts, adjust the rules, confirm that all required communications receive allow verdicts, and then disable audit mode to begin enforcement.
DNS enforcement mode and HTTP audit mode are not the general Cilium configuration requested. "Policy enforcement mode" describes whether policies are normally enforced, but it does not provide the non- disruptive learning behavior in the question.
Audit mode should be treated as a temporary validation mechanism because it does not actually block disallowed traffic and does not persist across every agent-restart scenario.
Official references
Cilium Policy Audit Mode
Study Guide topic: Policy validation, audit verdicts, and safe policy rollout.
NEW QUESTION # 14
What is true about WireGuard encryption on Cilium?
Answer: A
Explanation:
Technical explanation
B is the best answer, with two qualifications. First, "pop-to-pod" is evidently a source typo for "pod-to-pod." Second, default WireGuard mode encrypts traffic between Cilium-managed pods on different nodes; node-to- node, pod-to-node, and node-to-pod coverage requires enabling the additional encryption.
nodeEncryption=true mode.
Cilium creates WireGuard peers per node, not per pod. Each Cilium agent generates a node key pair, advertises the public key through its CiliumNode resource, and forms secure tunnels with other known nodes.
This makes D incorrect. Same-node packets do not traverse a WireGuard tunnel because encryption cannot protect them from an observer already able to inspect raw traffic on that host, so A reverses the documented behavior.
C also reverses the encapsulation sequence. In tunnel-routing mode, pod traffic is first encapsulated for the VXLAN or Geneve overlay and is then encapsulated by WireGuard. The result is double encapsulation, with WireGuard protecting the overlay packet while it crosses the network between nodes.
Thus, B describes WireGuard's supported traffic coverage most closely, but exam candidates should remember the separate node-encryption configuration requirement.
Official references
WireGuard Transparent Encryption
Study Guide topic: WireGuard peer architecture, encrypted traffic matrix, same-node behavior, and encapsulation order.
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