CV0-004 Security Practice Question
A DevOps team deploys a containerized application on Amazon EKS. The security team wants to ensure that containers do not run as root and that read-only root filesystems are enforced. Which Kubernetes mechanism should be used?
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Why each option matters
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Pod Security Standards
Pod Security Standards (formerly PSP) define security contexts, including runAsNonRoot and readOnlyRootFilesystem, to enforce these policies.
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Pod Security Standards
Why this is correct
Pod Security Standards enforce security constraints at the pod level.
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Kubernetes RBAC
Why it's wrong here
RBAC controls who can access resources, not container security contexts.
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Network Policies
Why it's wrong here
Network policies control traffic flow between pods.
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Secrets management
Why it's wrong here
Secrets manage sensitive data, not container runtime policies.
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