CV0-004 Security Practice Question
A company has deployed a containerized application on a Kubernetes cluster. The security team wants to ensure that containers cannot run as the root user and that the container's root filesystem is read-only. Which Kubernetes security mechanism should be used?
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Why each option matters
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Pod Security Standards
Pod Security Standards (PSS) provide predefined security profiles (privileged, baseline, restricted) that enforce policies like running as non-root and read-only root filesystem.
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Pod Security Standards
Why this is correct
PSS includes the restricted profile that enforces these requirements.
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Network policies
Why it's wrong here
Network policies control traffic, not container permissions.
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Seccomp profiles
Why it's wrong here
Seccomp limits system calls, not root or filesystem permissions.
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Resource quotas
Why it's wrong here
Resource quotas limit CPU/memory, not security.
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