Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer
Practice questions and flashcards for the CNCF Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer (CNPE) exam. Covers platform architecture, GitOps and continuous delivery (Flux, ArgoCD), platform APIs and self-service (CRDs, operators, Crossplane), observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), and security/policy enforcement (OPA, Kyverno, service mesh).
A company is building a platform API that needs to provide fine-grained attribute-based access control (ABAC) where developers can only view and modify resources they created, identified by resource tags. The API uses API Gateway and Lambda. Which implementation is most secure and scalable without maintaining a separate authorization database?
| Domain | Weight | Items | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
Platform Architecture and Infrastructure | 15% | 75 items | |
GitOps and Continuous Delivery | 25% | 75 items | |
Platform APIs and Self-Service Capabilities | 25% | 75 items | |
Observability and Operations | 20% | 54 items | |
Security and Policy Enforcement | 15% | 98 items |
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