ICA Resilience And Fault Injection Practice Question
To test how your application handles service unavailability, you want to return an HTTP 503 error for 20% of requests to the 'catalog' service. Which fault injection setting do you use?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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abort
The abort fault injection allows specifying a status code and percentage.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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circuitBreaker
Why it's wrong here
Circuit breaking reacts to failures, it does not inject them.
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outlierDetection
Why it's wrong here
Outlier detection is for health monitoring, not fault injection.
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delay
Why it's wrong here
Delay introduces latency, not error codes.
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abort
Why this is correct
Abort is the correct mechanism for simulating service errors.
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Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official CNCF / Linux Foundation exam blueprint
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