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| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| BGP and External Networking | 6% | - External gateway integration - BGP peering and service advertisement |
| Cluster Mesh | 10% | - Multi-cluster connectivity and service discovery - Cross-cluster load balancing and failover |
| Service Mesh | 16% | - Transparent traffic encryption - Sidecar vs sidecarless architecture - Ingress and Gateway API integration |
| eBPF | 10% | - eBPF fundamentals and relevance to Cilium - eBPF-based networking, security, and observability |
| Network Observability | 10% | - Hubble architecture and CLI usage - Hubble UI and troubleshooting basics - Layer 7 visibility and flow monitoring |
| Network Policy | 18% | - Policy enforcement modes - Cilium vs Kubernetes network policies - Identity-aware and L3–L7 policy models |
| Architecture | 20% | - CNI integration and kube-proxy replacement - Cilium core architecture and components |
| Installation and Configuration | 10% | - Post-install validation and connectivity testing - Deployment methods (Helm, cilium-cli) |
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NEW QUESTION # 29
What is the correct statement about the masquerading feature?
Answer: B
Explanation:
Technical explanation
Masquerading performs source network address translation for qualifying traffic that leaves the cluster.
Because pod addresses are often private and not routable by the external network, Cilium replaces the pod's source address with an address belonging to the egress node. Return traffic can then reach that node, which reverses the translation and delivers the response to the originating pod. B correctly summarizes this behavior.
Masquerading is a form of SNAT, not DNAT. DNAT modifies the destination address, commonly to direct incoming traffic toward another endpoint, so C is incorrect.
Cilium documents its eBPF-based masquerading implementation as the more efficient implementation. The iptables version is the legacy alternative, making A false. Conversely, eBPF masquerading depends on appropriate kernel eBPF capabilities and Cilium's BPF NodePort functionality. It cannot be assumed to work on every kernel version, so D is false. The legacy iptables implementation is the mode documented as broadly working across kernel versions.
Cilium can exclude natively routable CIDRs from masquerading, and administrators may configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 masquerading behavior.
Official references
Cilium Masquerading , Cilium System Requirements
Study Guide topic: SNAT, native-routing exclusions, and eBPF versus iptables masquerading.
NEW QUESTION # 30
A user has set up a global service as a Kubernetes user with access to clusters in a Cilium Cluster Mesh. They notice that all traffic is going to remote backend pods. What is a possible explanation?
Answer: D
Explanation:
Technical explanation
If a global Service has no healthy local endpoints matching its selector, every available backend can be remote. Cluster Mesh synchronizes remote service and endpoint information, allowing the local Cilium datapath to load-balance requests to backend pods in connected clusters. The absence of local endpoints therefore provides a direct explanation for the observed behavior.
If the local cluster were not part of the Cluster Mesh, its Cilium agents would not normally receive the remote endpoint state needed to route traffic through the global Service, so B does not explain successful remote-only selection. An affinity value of none is the default behavior and expresses no preference between local and remote endpoints. When both categories exist and are healthy, this permits load balancing across both; it does not require every connection to use remote backends.
Setting service.cilium.io/shared: "false" prevents the local Service's backends from being shared with remote clusters. It does not instruct the local cluster to direct all requests toward remote endpoints.
A separate possible cause, not presented among the choices, would be service.cilium.io/affinity: "remote" .
Among the supplied answers, however, A is the valid explanation.
Official references
Service Affinity ; Cluster Mesh .
Study Guide topic: Cluster Mesh.
NEW QUESTION # 31
a requirement to achieve service discovery and load balancing across clusters with Cluster Mesh?
Answer: B
Explanation:
Technical explanation
Every cluster participating in a Cilium Cluster Mesh must have a unique cluster name and numeric cluster ID.
The numeric ID becomes part of Cluster Mesh security identities and allows Cilium to distinguish identities originating in different clusters. Reusing an ID would create ambiguity in endpoint identity, policy enforcement, and synchronized service information. Current documentation permits IDs from 1 through 255 under the default scaling configuration.
Geographical colocation is not required. Cluster Mesh is specifically designed to extend connectivity, policy, service discovery, and load balancing across clusters that may reside in different regions, clouds, or premises, provided the documented network-connectivity requirements are satisfied. The clusters also do not need to use an identical Kubernetes distribution or exact Kubernetes version.
Option C is unnecessarily strict. Current Cilium documentation permits connected clusters to differ by no more than one minor Cilium release; exact version equality is not mandatory. Other prerequisites include unique and non-conflicting PodCIDRs, compatible datapath modes, node connectivity, and appropriate inter- cluster communication.
The supplied bank incorrectly marks A. The verified answer is D.
Official references
Setting up Cluster Mesh .
Study Guide topic: Cluster Mesh.
NEW QUESTION # 32
What is correct about this Cilium Network Policy?
Question 21 Cilium Network Policy exhibit
Answer: B
Explanation:
Technical explanation
The intended policy selects every Cilium-managed endpoint in the namespace where the CiliumNetworkPolicy is created because endpointSelector: {} is empty. The manifest does not specify metadata.namespace ; if it is applied normally in the default namespace, the selected endpoints are therefore all pods in default , not pods across every namespace. The egress destination selector identifies pods in kube- system carrying k8s-app: kube-dns , while matchPattern: "*" allows all DNS query names handled by the DNS rule. This supports the intended answer A.
There is, however, a material defect in the exhibit: toPorts is a list in the Cilium policy schema, but the image shows rules directly beneath toPorts without a preceding list marker. The official form is toPorts: , followed by - ports: and rules: within that list item. Port 53 and its protocol should also be stated explicitly. Exactly as displayed, the manifest should not be treated as a valid deployable policy.
The question should be corrected before examination use. Once the missing list item and port definition are restored, A accurately describes its scope and effect.
Official references
Using Kubernetes Constructs in Policy ; Layer 7 Protocol Visibility .
Study Guide topic: Network Policy.
NEW QUESTION # 33
Which one of the following service mesh features and use cases is natively supported by Cilium?
Answer: B
Explanation:
Technical explanation
The intended answer is A because API request limiting corresponds to rate limiting, which Cilium identifies as a core Layer 7 traffic-management capability. Cilium combines its eBPF datapath with Envoy for application-layer processing. The official Service Mesh documentation expressly includes rate limiting among the functions that must understand protocols such as HTTP, REST, gRPC, and WebSocket. It is therefore not merely packet-rate policing at Layer 3 or Layer 4; it can be applied with application-protocol context.
However, this question is no longer valid as a strict single-answer item. Current Cilium documentation also describes proxy-based Layer 7 load balancing as useful for gRPC and provides an Envoy-backed implementation for Kubernetes Services. Consequently, option C is also supportable under the current product documentation, although the feature is identified as beta. API authorization and fault-delay injection are not presented as equivalent first-class Cilium Service Mesh use cases in the cited feature overview.
For certification-bank purposes, retain A as the intended answer, but revise option C or qualify it to restore a unique correct choice.
Official references
Service Mesh ; Proxy Load Balancing for Kubernetes Services .
Study Guide topic: Service Mesh.
NEW QUESTION # 34
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