Pod Management — Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Practice Questions

Pod management encompasses the full lifecycle of pods in Kubernetes, including creation, scheduling, health checking, restarts, and termination, along with the controllers that manage groups of pods. Candidates need to understand how the kubelet uses liveness, readiness, and startup probes to determine pod health, how restart policies affect individual pod behavior, and when to use higher-level objects like Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, or Jobs rather than bare pods. The CKA exam tests practical skills such as creating pods from manifests, inspecting pod state and logs, debugging CrashLoopBackOff conditions, and applying resource requests and limits.

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How many replicas does a Deployment create by default?
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