Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist Exam Practice Test

Context

The kubeadm-created cluster's Kubernetes API server was, for testing purposes, temporarily configured to allow unauthenticated and unauthorized access granting the anonymous user duster-admin access.

Task

Reconfigure the cluster's Kubernetes API server to ensure that only authenticated and authorized REST requests are allowed.

Use authorization mode Node,RBAC and admission controller NodeRestriction.

Cleaning up, remove the ClusterRoleBinding for user system:anonymous.

Task

Analyze and edit the given Dockerfile /home/candidate/KSSC00301/Docker file (based on the ubuntu:16.04 image), fixing two instructions present in the file that are prominent security/best-practice issues.

Analyze and edit the given manifest file /home/candidate/KSSC00301/deployment.yaml, fixing two fields present in the file that are prominent security/best-practice issues.

Context

A PodSecurityPolicy shall prevent the creation of privileged Pods in a specific namespace.

Task

Create a new PodSecurityPolicy named prevent-psp-policy,which prevents the creation of privileged Pods.

Create a new ClusterRole named restrict-access-role, which uses the newly created PodSecurityPolicy prevent-psp-policy.

Create a new ServiceAccount named psp-restrict-sa in the existing namespace staging.

Finally, create a new ClusterRoleBinding named restrict-access-bind, which binds the newly created ClusterRole restrict-access-role to the newly created ServiceAccount psp-restrict-sa.

Context

A default-deny NetworkPolicy avoids to accidentally expose a Pod in a namespace that doesn't have any other NetworkPolicy defined.

Task

Create a new default-deny NetworkPolicy named defaultdeny in the namespace testing for all traffic of type Egress.

The new NetworkPolicy must deny all Egress traffic in the namespace testing.

Apply the newly created default-deny NetworkPolicy to all Pods running in namespace testing.

Context

A CIS Benchmark tool was run against the kubeadm-created cluster and found multiple issues that must be addressed immediately.

Task

Fix all issues via configuration and restart the affected components to ensure the new settings take effect.

Fix all of the following violations that were found against the API server:

Fix all of the following violations that were found against the Kubelet:

Fix all of the following violations that were found against etcd:

Context

Your organization's security policy includes:

ServiceAccounts must not automount API credentials

ServiceAccount names must end in "-sa"

The Pod specified in the manifest file /home/candidate/KSCH00301 /pod-m

nifest.yaml fails to schedule because of an incorrectly specified ServiceAccount.

Complete the following tasks:

Task

1. Create a new ServiceAccount named frontend-sa in the existing namespace q

a. Ensure the ServiceAccount does not automount API credentials.

2. Using the manifest file at /home/candidate/KSCH00301 /pod-manifest.yaml, create the Pod.

3. Finally, clean up any unused ServiceAccounts in namespace qa.

Context

This cluster uses containerd as CRI runtime.

Containerd's default runtime handler is runc. Containerd has been prepared to support an additional runtime handler, runsc (gVisor).

Task

Create a RuntimeClass named sandboxed using the prepared runtime handler named runsc.

Update all Pods in the namespace server to run on gVisor.