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| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 20% | - Cilium core architecture and components - CNI integration and kube-proxy replacement |
| Network Policy | 18% | - Identity-aware and L3–L7 policy models - Cilium vs Kubernetes network policies - Policy enforcement modes |
| BGP and External Networking | 6% | - BGP peering and service advertisement - External gateway integration |
| Service Mesh | 16% | - Transparent traffic encryption - Sidecar vs sidecarless architecture - Ingress and Gateway API integration |
| Installation and Configuration | 10% | - Post-install validation and connectivity testing - Deployment methods (Helm, cilium-cli) |
| eBPF | 10% | - eBPF-based networking, security, and observability - eBPF fundamentals and relevance to Cilium |
| Cluster Mesh | 10% | - Multi-cluster connectivity and service discovery - Cross-cluster load balancing and failover |
| Network Observability | 10% | - Layer 7 visibility and flow monitoring - Hubble architecture and CLI usage - Hubble UI and troubleshooting basics |
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NEW QUESTION # 46
What is NOT a valid description of the sidecar-based model?
Answer: A
Explanation:
Technical explanation
C is not a valid description. A service-mesh sidecar externalizes networking functions into a proxy container running beside the application; it does not force the instrumentation logic into the application's source code.
In fact, a core service-mesh objective is to provide connectivity, security, traffic management, and observability transparently without requiring application-code changes.
The operational concerns in the other choices are characteristic of sidecar implementations. A proxy must be injected into each workload pod, increasing container count and potentially affecting pod initialization, resource consumption, ordering, and readiness. Adding a sidecar to an existing pod template normally requires the pods to be recreated because Kubernetes cannot dynamically add a new container to an already- running pod.
Traffic interception also directs application traffic through the sidecar proxy and its network namespace paths, adding network-stack traversal and proxy-processing overhead. Cilium's service-mesh design can instead use node-level Envoy proxies together with eBPF traffic redirection, avoiding one proxy container in every application pod. This preserves transparent application behavior while reducing the per-workload operational burden.
Official references
Cilium Service Mesh , Cilium Ingress and Network Policy Example
Study Guide topic: Sidecar-based and sidecar-free service-mesh architectures.
NEW QUESTION # 47
In which use case can the Cilium Service Mesh exclusively utilize eBPF without requiring a proxy such as Envoy?
Answer: D
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 # 48
What is correct about the Kubernetes Host Scope IP Address Management (IPAM) mode?
Answer: D
Explanation:
Technical explanation
Kubernetes host-scope IPAM can be used with both Cilium tunnel routing and native direct routing. The IPAM mechanism determines how each node receives and locally allocates pod addresses; it does not inherently require a particular packet-forwarding model. The current IPAM feature matrix explicitly marks both tunnel routing and direct routing as supported for Kubernetes host-scope mode.
In this mode, Kubernetes allocates a PodCIDR to each node and publishes it through the standard v1.Node resource, normally in spec.podCIDR or spec.podCIDRs . The Cilium agent waits for the relevant range and allocates individual pod addresses from that node-specific CIDR. The correct configuration is ipam:
kubernetes or the Helm equivalent ipam.mode=kubernetes , not ipam: crd ; therefore, C is false.
The documented feature matrix does not provide multiple CIDRs per cluster or multiple CIDRs per node for this mode, eliminating A and B. Multi-pool IPAM is the Cilium mode designed for allocating per-node CIDRs from multiple configurable pools.
Because Kubernetes host-scope IPAM supports either overlay tunneling or direct routing while the other statements contradict its capabilities or configuration, D is correct.
Official references
IP Address Management ; Kubernetes Host Scope .
Study Guide topic: Installation and Configuration.
NEW QUESTION # 49
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 # 50
Which encapsulation protocols are supported when configuring Cilium in tunnel mode?
Answer: A
Explanation:
Technical explanation
Cilium tunnel mode supports VXLAN and Geneve encapsulation. In this routing model, Cilium nodes form an overlay mesh, and traffic exchanged between nodes is carried inside UDP-encapsulated packets. VXLAN is the default tunnel protocol and normally uses UDP port 8472. Geneve is the alternative and normally uses UDP port 6081. Operators select the protocol through the tunnel-protocol configuration setting, whose documented values are vxlan and geneve .
Encapsulation reduces the requirements placed on the underlying network. The underlay only needs to provide IP connectivity between the Kubernetes nodes and permit the selected UDP tunnel port. It does not need to learn or route individual PodCIDRs. Cilium also uses the tunnel metadata to carry information such as the source security identity, avoiding an additional identity lookup on the receiving node.
MPLS, OTV, STT, and EVPN are not supported values for Cilium's tunnel-protocol setting. EVPN may be used in broader data-center network designs, and MPLS is a carrier-routing technology, but neither is a Cilium overlay encapsulation choice. Therefore, B is the only supported pair.
Official references
Cilium Routing ; System Requirements .
Study Guide topic: Architecture.
NEW QUESTION # 51
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