EX280 Cluster Installation And Management Practice Question
What is the primary role of Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) in OpenShift 4.14?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Managing the installation, upgrades, and RBAC lifecycle of Operators in the cluster.
OLM helps administrators install, update, and manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes native applications and Operators in their clusters.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Managing the installation, upgrades, and RBAC lifecycle of Operators in the cluster.
Why this is correct
OLM automates the deployment, updates, and permission management of add-on Operators.
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Monitoring node CPU and memory utilization thresholds.
Why it's wrong here
Node monitoring is handled by the OpenShift Monitoring stack (Prometheus/Grafana).
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Provisioning physical bare-metal servers for cluster expansion.
Why it's wrong here
Bare-metal provisioning is handled by the BareMetal Operator and Metal3, not OLM.
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Encrypting etcd database contents at rest.
Why it's wrong here
etcd encryption is managed via the cluster encryption configuration.
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