Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist Exam Questions

Context

A CIS Benchmark tool was run against the kubeadm-created cluster and found multiple issues that must be addressed immediately.

Task

Fix all issues via configuration and restart the affected components to ensure the new settings take effect.

Fix all of the following violations that were found against the API server:

Fix all of the following violations that were found against the Kubelet:

Fix all of the following violations that were found against etcd:

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Context

A default-deny NetworkPolicy avoids to accidentally expose a Pod in a namespace that doesn't have any other NetworkPolicy defined.

Task

Create a new default-deny NetworkPolicy named defaultdeny in the namespace testing for all traffic of type Egress.

The new NetworkPolicy must deny all Egress traffic in the namespace testing.

Apply the newly created default-deny NetworkPolicy to all Pods running in namespace testing.

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Context

A CIS Benchmark tool was run against the kubeadm-created cluster and found multiple issues that must be addressed immediately.

Task

Fix all issues via configuration and restart the affected components to ensure the new settings take effect.

Fix all of the following violations that were found against the API server:

Fix all of the following violations that were found against the Kubelet:

Fix all of the following violations that were found against etcd:

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Context

A default-deny NetworkPolicy avoids to accidentally expose a Pod in a namespace that doesn't have any other NetworkPolicy defined.

Task

Create a new default-deny NetworkPolicy named defaultdeny in the namespace testing for all traffic of type Egress.

The new NetworkPolicy must deny all Egress traffic in the namespace testing.

Apply the newly created default-deny NetworkPolicy to all Pods running in namespace testing.

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Context

A PodSecurityPolicy shall prevent the creation of privileged Pods in a specific namespace.

Task

Create a new PodSecurityPolicy named prevent-psp-policy,which prevents the creation of privileged Pods.

Create a new ClusterRole named restrict-access-role, which uses the newly created PodSecurityPolicy prevent-psp-policy.

Create a new ServiceAccount named psp-restrict-sa in the existing namespace staging.

Finally, create a new ClusterRoleBinding named restrict-access-bind, which binds the newly created ClusterRole restrict-access-role to the newly created ServiceAccount psp-restrict-sa.

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