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A developer wants to deploy a pod that will run only once to initialize a database schema. Which Kubernetes resource should they use?
2You are managing a Kubernetes cluster that hosts a microservices application. One of the services, 'payment-processor', is critical and must always be available. It has a Deployment with 3 replicas, each requesting 1 CPU and 2Gi memory. Recently, the team added a new service 'data-analyzer' that runs as a DaemonSet on all nodes, consuming significant CPU and memory. After the addition, you notice that 'payment-processor' pods are occasionally being evicted, and new pods are slow to be scheduled. You check node resource usage and find that some nodes are overcommitted. You want to ensure that 'payment-processor' pods are never evicted and are scheduled before less critical workloads. Which action should you take?
3A Pod with a restartPolicy of 'OnFailure' exits with code 0. What will happen?
4A Kubernetes cluster has a node pool with GPU nodes labeled 'accelerator=nvidia-tesla'. A Pod requires a GPU. Which configuration is necessary?
5Which THREE of the following are valid considerations when using resource requests and limits? (Select 3)
6You are a platform engineer managing a Kubernetes cluster with 5 worker nodes (node1-node5). The cluster runs a mix of stateless web services and stateful databases. Users report that a critical database Pod (part of a StatefulSet) is frequently evicted during node maintenance. The StatefulSet has a single replica. You need to improve the availability of this database Pod. The current configuration: the Pod has resource requests (2 CPU, 4Gi memory) and limits (4 CPU, 8Gi memory). The cluster uses the default scheduler with no custom policies. Nodes have varying capacities: node1 and node2 have 8 CPU/32Gi memory, node3-node5 have 4 CPU/16Gi memory. During rolling node reboots, the database Pod gets evicted and takes a long time to reschedule because no node has enough resources. What should you do to minimize downtime and ensure the Pod is rescheduled promptly after eviction?
7Drag and drop the steps to troubleshoot a Node that is in NotReady state into the correct order.
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