KCNA Cloud Native Application Delivery Practice Question
What is the purpose of values.yaml in a Helm chart?
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
✓
To store default configuration values for the chart
values.yaml provides default configuration values that can be overridden at install/upgrade time.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
To specify the chart metadata
Why it's wrong here
That's Chart.yaml.
- ✗
To define the Kubernetes resources to create
Why it's wrong here
That is template files.
- ✗
To define the release name
Why it's wrong here
Release name is given at install time.
- ✓
To store default configuration values for the chart
Why this is correct
values.yaml holds default parameters.
Go deeper
Related to this question
About these practice questions
Courseiva writes every KCNA question from scratch — 833 in total, each with an explanation and a wrong-answer breakdown. None are copied from real exams or dumps. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
JA
Written by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
This KCNA practice question is part of Courseiva's free CNCF certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the KCNA exam.